 I wis in all the Senate There was no heart so bold But sore it ached and fast it beat When that ill news was told. Forthwith up rose the consul, Up rose the Fathers all ; In haste they girded up their gowns And hied them to the wall.  Mademoiselle Mori: A Tale of Modern Rome - Page 467by Margaret Roberts - 1860 - 526 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English poetry - 1843 - 142 pages
...Ostia Hath wasted all the plain; Astur hath stormed Janiculum, And the stout guards are slain. 18. I wis, in all the Senate, There was no heart so bold,...ached, and fast it beat, When that ill news was told. Forthwith up rose the Consul, Up rose the Fathers all; In haste they girded up their gowns, And hied... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 438 pages
...Ostia Hath wasted all the plain; Astur hath stormed Janiculum, And the stout guards are slain. 18. I wis, in all the Senate, There was no heart so bold,...ached, and fast it beat, When that ill news was told. Forthwith up rose the Consul, Up rose the Fathers all; In haste they girded up their gowns, And hied... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 108 pages
...to Ostia Hath wasted all the plain ; Astur hath stormed Janiculum, And the stout guards are slain. I wis, in all the Senate, There was no heart so bold,...ached, and fast it beat, When that ill news was told. Forthwith up rose the Consul, Up rose the Fathers all ; In haste they girded up their gowns, And hied... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...storm'd Janiculum, And the stout guards are slain. I wis in all the senate. There was no heart so hold, But sore it ached, and fast it beat, When that ill news was told. Forthwith up rose the consul, Up rose the Fathers all ; In haste they girded up their gowns, And hied... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...to Ostia Hath wasted all the plain ; Astur hath storm'd Janiculum, And the stout guards are slain. I wis in all the senate, There was no heart so bold,...ached, and fast it beat, When that ill news was told. Forthwith up rose the consul, Up rose the Fathers all ; In haste they girded up their gowns, And hied... | |
 | Walter McLeod - 1850 - 170 pages
...plain ; Astur hath storm'd Janiculum 5 , And the stout guards are skin. I wis, in all the Senate 6 , There was no heart so bold, But sore it ached, and fast it beat, When that ill news was told. Forthwith uprose the Consul 7 , Uprose the Fathers all; In haste they girded up their gowns, And hied... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Rome - 1851 - 260 pages
...Hath wasted all the plain; Astur hath stormed Janiculum, And the stout guards are slain. xVIII. I win, in all the Senate, There was no heart so bold, But...ached, and fast it beat, When that ill news was told. Forthwith up rose the Consul, Up rose the Fathers all; In haste they girded up their gowns, And hied... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 pages
...Crustumerium stands. Verbenna down to Ostia Hath wasted all the plain ; Astur hath storm'd Janiculum, 96 I wis, in all the Senate, There was no heart so bold,...ached, and fast it beat, When that ill news was told. Forthwith uprose the Consul, Uprose the Fathers all ; In haste they girded up their gowns, And hied... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - Readers - 1860 - 450 pages
...to Ostia Hath wasted all the plain ; Astur hath storm'd Jauiculum, And the stout guards are slain. I wis in all the senate, There was no heart so bold, Forthwith uprose the consul, Uprose the Fathers all ; In haste they girded up their gowns, And hied... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - Children's poetry - 1864 - 482 pages
...Etruscan army soon took the fort, and then, in the gallant words of Lord Macaulay's ballad, — "Thus in all the Senate There was no heart so bold, But sore it ached, and fast it heat, When that ill news was told. Forthwith up rose the Consul, Up rose the Fathers all, In haste... | |
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