| Ballads, English - 1727 - 296 pages
...paflion cannât mufick raife and quell ! The Trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms, With Ihrill notes of anger, And mortal alarms. The double, double, double beat Of the thundring Drum Cries, heark ! the foe's come : Charge, charge, 'tis too late to retreat. * The foft complaining Flute, In... | |
| Daniel Webb - Painters - 1761 - 354 pages
...in the whifpering of the breeze, the tumbling of ruins. Eug. OR, The rumbling of Drums, as thus, . The double, double, double beat Of the thund'ring Drum Cries, Hark, the foes come. Drydenl THIS is altogether ridiculous ; that rule of Criticifm, the found fhould feem an echo «o the... | |
| Daniel Webb - Poetry - 1762 - 140 pages
...as, in the whifpering of the breeze, the tumbling of ruins. E«S. OR, The rumbling of Drums, as thus, The double, double, double beat Of the thund'ring Drum Cries, Hark, the foes come. THIS is altogether ridiculous ; that rule ef Criticifm, the found fhould feem an echo jo the fenfe,... | |
| John Dryden - English poetry - 1773 - 268 pages
...Within the hollow of that fhell, That fpoke fo fweetly and fo well.' What pafiiou cartndt mufic rxlie and quell! III. The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms, With fhrili notes of anger And mortal alarms. The double double double beat Of the thund'ring drum Cries,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 614 pages
...there could r.ot dwell Within the hollow of that fhell, That fpoke fo fweetly and fo well. What pafl:on cannot Mufic raife and quell ? III. The trumpet's...mortal alarms. The double double double beat Of the thundering drum Cries, hark ! the foes come; Charge, Charge, 'tis too late to retreat. IV. The foft... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 664 pages
...dwell Within the hollow of that fhell, That fpoke fo fweetly and fo well. What paffion cannot Muf:c raife and quell ? III. The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms, With fhrill notes of anger And mortal alarms. The double double double beat Of the thundering drum Cries,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 326 pages
...paffion cannot Mufic raife and quell ? III. The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms, With (hrill notes of anger And mortal alarms. The double double double beat Of the thundering drum Cries, hark ! the foes come ; Charge, Charge, 'tis too late to retreat. IV. The foft... | |
| English poets - 1790 - 312 pages
...paffion cannot Mufic raife and quell? III. The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms, With fhrill notes of anger And mortal alarms. The double double double beat Of the thundering drum Cries, hark! the foes come; Charge, Charge, 'tis too late to retreat,. IV. The foft... | |
| Alexander Dalrymple - Ballads, English - 1796 - 240 pages
...hollow of that Shell, That fpokc fo fwcctly and fo well, What paflion cannot Mufic raife aud quell }• The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms, With...mortal alarms. The double double double beat Of the thundering Drum Cries, hark ! the foes come, Charge, charge, 'tis too late to retreat, The foft complaining... | |
| Alexander Dalrymple - Ballads, English - 1796 - 242 pages
...What paffion cannot Mufic raife and quell ? The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms, With fhrill notes of anger And mortal alarms. The double double double beat Of the thundering Drum Cries, hark ! the foes come, Charge, charge, 'tis too late to retreat. The foft complaining... | |
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