 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...  The Living Age - Page 1621909Full view - About this book
 | 1808 - 556 pages
...of fmoke and duft, With fword-fway, and with lance's thruft ; And fuch a yell was there, Of fudden and portentous birth, As if men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air. Long looked the anxious fquires ; their eye Could in the darknefs nought defcry. At length the frelhening... | |
 | Walter Scott - Flodden, Battle of, England, 1513 - 1808 - 526 pages
...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. XXVII. At length the... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1808 - 710 pages
...Until at weapon-point they close. — They close in cloud* of smoke and dust, With •word-sway.and with lance's thrust; And such a yell was there, Of...men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air. Longlmikcdthcanxioussejuircs; their eye Could in the darkness nought descry. At length the freshening... | |
 | 1808 - 732 pages
...clouds of fmoke and dutt, With fword-fway and with lance's thruft, And fuch a yell was there, Of fudden and portentous birth, As if men fought upon the earth And fiends in upper air. Long looked the anxious fquires, the« eye Could in the darknefs nought defcry. «« At length the... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1808 - 702 pages
...they close. — They close in clouds of. smoke ?.:id dust, With sword -sway.á nd \viih ¡ансе'ь thrust; And such a yell was there. Of sudden and portentous birth, As if Tien fought upon the earth, And fifmls in unper air. Long looked the anxiuus squires ¡their eye Could... | |
 | Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1809 - 494 pages
...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 cyy Could in the darkness nought descry. At length the freshening... | |
 | 1809 - 914 pages
...did rushing come. — Scarce could they hear or see their foes, Pntil 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. Ixing looked the anxious squires; their cy Could in the darkness nought descry. At length the freshening... | |
 | William Tennant - 1814 - 274 pages
...and drone was there,* As if on earth men pip'd, and devils dron'd in air, * Such a yell was there, As if men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air. SCOTT'S Jtfff •••"•'•"'• XXVI. Thus did the crowd with fiddle, lungs and drone, Congratulate... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1818 - 372 pages
...rushing come. — Scarce could they hear, or aee their foes, Until at weapon-point they close. — They close, in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway,...And such a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous hirth, As if men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air. Long looked the anxious squires ;... | |
 | Friedrich Johann Jacobsen - English poetry - 1820 - 796 pages
...Until at weapon -point they close. — They close , in clouds of smoke and dust, JVith sward-sway, and with lance's thrust ; And such a yell was there,...portentous birth, As if men fought upon the earth, N And ßends in upper air, Long looked the anxious squires; their eye Could in the darkness nought... | |
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