A thousand widows' shrieks I hear. Give me another horse, I cry, Lo ! the base Gallic squadrons fly. Whence is this rage ? what spirit, say, To battle hurries me away? Tis Fancy, in her fiery car, Transports me to the thickest war, There whirls me o'er... Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical: Illustrative of the Rambler ... - Página 119por Nathan Drake - 1810 - 499 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
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...original images have been omitted, manifests a considerable intimacy with the manner of Virgilian poesy : Now let us louder strike the lyre, For my heart glows...heat, My big tumultuous bosom beat; The trumpet's clangours pierce mine ear, A thousand widows' shriek; I hear : Give me another horse, I cry ; Lo !... | |
| 1829 - 622 páginas
...considerable intimacy with, the manner of Virgilian poesy : i Now let us louder strike the lyre, For ray heart glows with martial fire ; I feel, I feel, with...heat. My big tumultuous bosom beat ; The trumpet's clangours pierce mine ear, A thousand widows' shrieks I hear : Give me another hone, I cry ; . i Lo... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 páginas
...beggar shivering lies, Whilst whistling tempests round her rise, And trembles lest the tottering wall man never knew ; And in that charter reads, with sparkling...treasure in the skies. 0 happy peasant I 0 unhappy clangours pierce mine ear, A thousand widows shrieks I hear ; ' Give me another horse,' I cry, Lo !... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 páginas
...beggar shivering lies, Whilst whistling tempests round her rise, And trembles lest the tottering wall A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed...miserable inhabitants flying from the flaming villages, clangours pierce mine ear, A thousand widows shrieks I hear ; * Give me another horse,' I cry, Lo !... | |
| English poetry - 1848 - 468 páginas
...beggar shivering lies, While whistling tempests round her rise, And trembles lest the tottering wall Should on her sleeping infants fall. Now let us louder...widows' shrieks I hear : Give me another horse,' I cry, La, the base Gallic squadrons fly ; Whence is this rage ? — what spirit say, To battle hurries me... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 páginas
...beggar shivering lie«, Whilst whistling tempests round her rise, And trembles lest the tottering wall a sound was heard. Under the water it rumbled on,...it split the bay ; The ship went down like lead. 1 The trumpet's clangours pierce mine ear, Л thousand widows shrieks I hear ; ' Give me another horse,'... | |
| William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - 422 páginas
...tempests round her rise, And trembles lest the tott'ring wall Should on her sleeping infants fall. I feel, I feel, with sudden heat, My big tumultuous bosom beat ! The trumpet's clangors pierce mine ear, A thousand widows' shrieks I hear ; " Give me another horse !" I cry, Lo ! the base Gallic... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 páginas
...her rise, And trembles lest tho tottering wall Should on her sleeping infants fall. Now let us londer strike the lyre, For my heart glows with martial fire; I feel, I feel, with sndden heat, My big tumultuous bosom beat! The trumpet's clangours pierce mine ear, A thousand widows'... | |
| Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 332 páginas
...beggar shivering lies, While whistling tempests round her rise, And trembles lest the tottering wall Should on her sleeping infants fall. Now let us louder...tumultuous bosom beat ! The trumpet's clangors pierce mine ear, A thousand widows' shrieks I hear ; " Give me another horse !" I cry, Lo ! the base Gallic... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 páginas
...beggar shivering lies, Whilst whistling tempests round her rist And trembles lest the tottering wall Should on her sleeping infants fall. Now let us louder...heat, My big tumultuous bosom beat! The trumpet's clangours pierce mine ear, A thousand widows' shrieks I hear ; 'Give me another horse,' I cry, Lo !... | |
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