 | 1808 - 416 pages
...: With dying hand, above his head He shook the fragment of his blade, And shouted ' Victory ! — ' Charge, Chester, charge ! On, Stanley, on !' Were the last words of Marmion." P. 366. No painter, worthy of the name, can- read that description, and sleep till he has embodied... | |
 | Walter Scott - Flodden, Battle of, England, 1513 - 1808 - 526 pages
...: With dying hand, above his head He shook the fragment of his blade, And shouted " Victory ! — " Charge, Chester, charge! On, Stanley, on!",... Were the last words of Marmion. XXXIV. By this, though deep the evening fell, ,,-. \\ Still rose the battle's deadly swell, For still... | |
 | Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1809 - 494 pages
...: With dying hand, above his head He shook the fragment of his blade, And shouted " Victory ! — " Charge, Chester, charge ! On, Stanley, on !". . . . Were the last words of Marmion." p. 366. The lady is now hurried away by the priest ; and the close of the day ia thus described, with... | |
 | 1809 - 914 pages
...: With dying hand, above his head He shook the fragment of his blade, And shouted " Victory ! — " Charge, Chester, charge ! On, Stanley, on !". . . . Were the last words of Marmion." p. 366. The lady is now hurried away by the priest ; and the close of the day is thus described, with... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 536 pages
...: With dying hand, above his head He shook the fragment of his blade, And shouted " Victory ! — " Charge, Chester, charge ! On, Stanley, on !" . . . Were the last words of Marmion. CANTO vi. THE BATTLE. 367 XXXIII. By !*MS, though deep the evening fell, Still rose the battle's deadly... | |
 | Joshua P. Slack - Elocution - 1815 - 340 pages
...eye : With dying hand, above his head He shook the fragment of his blade, And shouted " Victory ! — Charge, Chester, charge ! On, Stanley, on ."' Were the last words of Marmion. Ode to Buonaparte, by LORD BYKON, I. 'TIS done — but yesterday a King ! And arm'd with kings to strive.... | |
 | Thomas Christopher Banks - 1817 - 254 pages
...glaring eye : With dying hand, above his head He shook the fragment of his blade, And shouted "Victory" "Charge, Chester, charge! on, Stanley, on!" Were the last words of Marmion. As the Ballad of " The Hermit of WarkworfA" has been alluded to, with reference to a traditionary story... | |
 | England - 1830 - 990 pages
...is " on" a still more military adverb. " On, ye brave !" of Campbell, we have already commended. " Charge, Chester, charge — on — Stanley, on, Were the last words of Marmion." And an excellent last speech and dying words they were, and cheap on brown paper at a penny. " Wha... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1818 - 372 pages
...: With dying hand, ahove his head He shook the fragment of his hlade, And shouted " Victory ! — " Charge, Chester, charge ! On, Stanley, on !" — Were the last words of Marmion. XXXIV. By this, though deep the evening fell, Still rose the hattle's deadly swell, For still the Scots,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 306 pages
...: With dying hand, above his head, He shook the fragment of his blade> And shouted " Victory !— " Charge, Chester, charge ! On, Stanley, on !" . . . Were the last words of Marmion. XXXIII. By this, though deep the evening fell, Still rose the battle's deadly swell, For still the... | |
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The war, that for a space did fail, Now trebly thundering swelled the gale, And ' Stanley ! ' was the cry. A light on Marmion's visage spread, And fired his glazing eye ; With dying hand above his head He shook the fragment of his blade, And shouted '... 
