 Meanwhile the Tuscan army, Right glorious to behold, Came flashing back the noonday light, Rank behind rank, like surges bright Of a broad sea of gold. Four hundred trumpets sounded A peal of warlike glee, As that great host with measured tread, And spears...  Kottabos: College Miscellany - Page 341873Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Rome - 1854 - 240 pages
...hatchet, bar, and crow, And smote upon the planks above, And loosed the props below. XXXV. Meanwhile the Tuscan army, Right glorious to behold, Came flashing back the noonday light, Bank behind rank, like surges bright Of a broad sea of gold. Four hundred trumpets sounded A peal of... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1856 - 384 pages
...I have heard a voice that cries aloud, Home, home, Comnenus ! 578. Meanwhile the Tuscan army, Eight glorious to behold, Came flashing back the noonday...sounded A peal of warlike glee, As that great host, with measur'd tread, And spears advanc'd, and ensigns spread, Roll'd slowly towards the bridge's head, Where... | |
 | David Charles Bell - 1856 - 466 pages
...warlike glee; as that great host, with measured tread, and spears advanced, and ensigns spread, rolled slowly towards the bridge's head, where stood the...dauntless Three. The Three stood calm and silent, and looked upon the foes, and a great shout of laughter from all the vanguard rose : and forth three chiefs... | |
 | Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 pages
...crow, And smote upon the planks above, And loosed the props below. Meanwhile the Tuscan army, Eight glorious to behold, Came flashing back the noonday...measured tread, And spears advanced, and ensigns spread, Rolled slowly towards the bridge's head, Where stood the dauntless Three. The Three stood calm and... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 pages
...back the enemy from passing the bridge till it can be hewn down.] Meanwhile the Tuscan army, Eight glorious to behold, Came flashing back the noonday...broad sea of gold. Four hundred trumpets sounded A peel of warlike glee, As that great host, with measured tread, And spears advanced, and ensigns spread,... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - Readers - 1860 - 450 pages
...Fathers mix'd with commons Seized hatchet, bar, and crow, And smote upon the planks above, Meanwhile the Tuscan army, Right glorious to behold, Came flashing...dauntless Three. The Three stood calm and silent . And look'd upon the foes, And a great shout of laughter From all the vanguard rose : And forth three chiefs... | |
 | Henry George John Clements - 1860 - 176 pages
...him to bar the passage of the bridge which, behind them, all Rome is labouring to destroy. Meanwhile the Tuscan army, Right glorious to behold, Came flashing...measured tread, And spears advanced, and ensigns spread, Rolled slowly towards the bridge's head, Where stood the dauntless Three. The Tuscans raise a shout... | |
 | James Alexander McMullen - 1860 - 170 pages
...and more favoringconstitution of things, receive their reward, or become their own. XII. 1. Meanwhile the Tuscan army, Right glorious to behold, Came, flashing...measured tread, And spears advanced, and ensigns spread, Rolled slowly to the bridge's head, Where stood the dauntless Three. 2. The Three stood calm and silent,... | |
 | John Connery - Elocution - 1861 - 416 pages
...Seized hatchet, bar, and crow, And smote Upon the planks above, And loosed the props below. Meanwhile, the Tuscan army, Right glorious to behold, Came flashing...dauntless Three. The Three stood calm and silent, * And looked upon the foes, And a great shout of laughter From all the vanguard rose : And forth three chiefs... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Bible stories - 1861 - 550 pages
...others hastened to cut away the props that supported the bridge. 4. Meanwhile the Tuscan army, Eight glorious to behold, Came flashing back the noonday...measured tread, And spears advanced, and ensigns spread, Rolled slowly toward the bridge's head, 5. The three stood calm and silent, And looked upon the foes,... | |
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