 King James did rushing come. Scarce could they hear, or see their foes, Until at weapon-point they close. They close in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway and with lance's thrust; And such a yell was there Of sudden and portentous birth, As if...  Conrad Blessington; a tale by a lady - Page 36by Conrad Blessington (fict.name.) - 1833 - 216 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1857 - 394 pages
...James did rushing come. Scarce could they hear or see their foes, Until at weapon point they close. They close in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway...men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air. &*> Long looked the anxious squires; their eye Could in the darkness nought descry. At length the freshening... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 428 pages
...rushing come. — Scarce could they hear, or see their foes, Until at weapon-point they close, — 2 They close, in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway,...a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous birth, 1 [" Of all the poetical battles which have been fought, from the days of Homer to those of Mr. Southey,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 420 pages
...rushing come. — Scarce could they hear, or see their foes, Until at weapon-point they close, — 2 They close, in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway,...a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous birth, 1 [" Of all the poetical battles which have been fought, from the days of Homer to those of Mr. Southey,... | |
 | American essays - 1910 - 964 pages
...screw. It whirls along with a cyclonic rhythm that sets the feet to tramping and the blood to boiling. And such a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous...men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air: Oh, life and death were in the shout, Recoil and rally, charge and rout. And triumph and despair. This... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1858 - 952 pages
...foes, Until at weapon-point they close.—* They close, in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-swav, and with lance's thrust; And such a yell was there,...men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air ;' О life and death were in the shout, Recoil and rally, charge and rout, And triumph and despair.... | |
 | John Edmund Reade - 1858 - 334 pages
...from memory), nor feel the 'trembling homage ' of the soldier, and the ' gaudia certaminis' of Attila? And such a yell was there Of sudden and portentous...men fought upon the earth And fiends in upper air; O, life and death were in that shout, Recoil — and rally — charge — and rout — And triumph... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 pages
...smoke and dust, Witn sword-sway, and with lance's thrustAnd such a yell was there, ' Of sudden nnd portentous birth, As if men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air. Long looked the anxious squires; their eye Could in the darkness nought descry. At length the freshening... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1859 - 432 pages
...sassaybes, and hartebeests, the thunder of whose hoofs, like the distant din of war, sounded in our ears As if men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air. A band of hungry harpies following in our track tripped nimbly up each victim as it fell — completing,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1898 - 872 pages
...1 Scarce could they hear or see their foes, Until at weapon point they close. They close in cloads of smoke and dust, With sword-sway and with lance's...men fought upon the earth And fiends in upper air.' — SCOTT. INKERMANN is emphatically ' a soldier's battle.' The bayonet of the private counted for... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1860 - 656 pages
...foes, Until at weapon-point they close. ~ They close, in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword -sway, and with lance's thrust; And such a yell was there,...men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air. Long looked the anxious squires; their eyo Could in the darkness nought descry. XXVfc At length the... | |
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