 And now, my race of terror run, Mine be the eve of tropic Sun ! No pale gradations quench his ray, No twilight dews his wrath allay ; With disk like battle-target red, He rushes to his burning bed, Dyes the wide wave with bloody light, Then sinks at once...  The Poetical Works of Walter Scott, Esq - Page 200by Walter Scott - 1818Full view - About this book
 | John Young - Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 - 1810 - 432 pages
...twilight dews his wrath allay ; With disk like battle target red, He rushes to his burning bed, • Dyes the wide wave with bloody light, Then sinks at once — and all is night." Eokeby, Canto VI. St. 20, 21. 101 LETTER VI. Nee tenui — Pcnna, bifonnis — Vates Hor. Carm. Lib.... | |
 | Walter Scott - Marston Moor, Battle of, England, 1644 - 1813 - 468 pages
...twilight dews his wrath allay ; With disk like battle-target red, He rushes to his burning bed, Dyes the wide wave with bloody light, Then sinks at once — and all is nig'ht. " Now to thy mission, Edmund. Fly, Seek Mortham out, and bid him hie To Richmond, where his troops... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1813 - 540 pages
...burning bed, Dyes the wide wave with bloody light, 1 hen sinks at once — and all is night. XXIII. " Now to thy mission, Edmund. Fly, Seek Mortham out, and bid him hi* *To Richmond, where his troops are laid, And lead his force to Redmond's aid. Say, till he reaches... | |
 | 1816 - 926 pages
...cooling dews hiĞ wrath allay; With disk like battle-target red, He rushes to his burning bĞd, Dyeğ the wide wave with bloody light, Then sinks at once,— and all is night." Cant. 6. Day having thus broke, the multitudes of Mispoh pour into the streets ; for this was the morning... | |
 | 1817 - 236 pages
...twilight dews his wrath allay ; With disk like battle-target red, He rushes to his burning bed, Dyes the wide wave with bloody light, Then sinks AT ONCE— and all is night. lie performed several of his best characters with wholly untouched vigour, and repeated Coriolanirs... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 330 pages
...twilight dews his wrath allay ; With disk like battle- target red, He rushes to his burning bed, Dyes the wide wave with bloody light, Then sinks at once...night. XXII. " Now to thy mission, Edmund. Fly, Seek Mprtham out, and bid him hie To Richmond, where his troops are laid, And lead his force to Redmond's... | |
 | John Leycester Adolphus - English fiction - 1822 - 340 pages
...twilight dews his wrath allay; With disk like battle target red, He rushes to his burning bed, Dyes the wide wave with bloody light, Then sinks at once — and all is night." Rokeby, Canto VI. St. 20, 2 1 . LETTER VI. • Nee tenui — Penna, biformis — Vates Hor. Cam. Lib.... | |
 | Music - 1826 - 546 pages
...fact in tropical climates, " With disk like battle target, red, He rushes to his burning bed, Dyes the wide wave with bloody light, Then sinks at once, and all is night." WEBER S OBERON. Cloud - less o'er the blushing water, now the set - ting sun is f II* IH _ m \ 0 ,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 678 pages
...twilight dews his wrath allay; With disk like battle-target red, He rushes to his burning bed, Dyes the wide wave with bloody light, Then sinks at once — and all is night. XXII. к Now to thy miuion, Edmund. My, Seek Mortham out, and bid him Me To Hichmoud, where his troops are... | |
 | William Brittainham Lacey - Elocution - 1828 - 308 pages
...twilight dews his wrath allay ; With disk like battle target red He rushes to his burning bed, Dyes the wide wave with bloody light, Then sinks at once — and all is night. If in reading this fine passage, a pause is made immediately before the last clause, and that clause... | |
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