| 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 - 1843 - 626 pages
...Come to the mouth of the dark lair Where, growling low, a fierce old bear Lies amidst bones and blood. Was none who would be foremost To lead such dire attack...trumpet-peal Dies fitfully away. Yet one man for one moment Strode out before the crowd : Well known was he to all the Three, And they gave him greeting loud.... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English poetry - 1843 - 142 pages
...the mouth of the dark lair Where, growling low, a fierce old bear Lies amidst bones and blood. 50. Was none who would be foremost To lead such dire attack;...And the victorious trumpet-peal Dies fitfully away. 51. Yet one man for one moment Strode out before the crowd; Well known was he to all the Three, And... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 438 pages
...mouth of the dark lair Where, growling low, a fierce old bear Lies amidst bones and blood. 60. Vfas none who would be foremost To lead such dire attack;...And the victorious trumpet-peal Dies fitfully away. 51. Yet one man for one moment Strode out before the crowd; Well known was he to all the Three, And... | |
| English poetry - 1844 - 108 pages
...Come to the mouth of the dark lair Where, growling low, a fierce old bear Lies amidst bones and blood. Was none who would be foremost To lead such dire attack...And the victorious trumpet-peal Dies fitfully away. But meanwhile axe and lever Have manfully been plied ; And now the bridge hangs tottering Above the... | |
| Richard H. Horne - Authors, English - 1844 - 330 pages
...gleams of dark -blue light, The long array of helmets bright, The long array of spears." * * * » " And backward now and forward Wavers the deep array...And the victorious trumpet-peal Dies fitfully away." HORATIUS. THOMAS HOOD urn THE LATE THEODOKE HOOK. " Or send to us Thy wit's great overplus : But teach... | |
| Richard H. Horne - Authors, English - 1844 - 392 pages
...broken gleams of dark-blue light, The long array of helmets bright, The long array of spears." + * * * " And backward now and forward Wavers the deep array ; And on the toasing sea of steel, To and fro the standards reel ; , And the victorious trumpet-peal Die* fitfully... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...the dark lair Where, growling low, a fierce old bear Lies amidst bones and blood. Was none who could be foremost To lead such dire attack ; But those behind...trumpet-peal Dies fitfully away. Yet one man for one moment Strode out before the crowd ; Well known was he to all the Three, And they gave him greeting loud.... | |
| Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...to the mouth of the dark lair, Where, growling low, a fierce old bear Lies amidst bones and blood. Was none who would be foremost To lead such dire attack...And the victorious trumpet-peal Dies fitfully away. But meanwhile axe and lever Have manfully been plied ; And now the bridge hangs tottering Above the... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...the dark lair Where, growling low, a fierce old bear Lies amidst bones and blood. Was none who could be foremost To lead such dire attack ; But those behind...trumpet-peal Dies fitfully away. Yet one man for one moment Strode out before the crowd ; Well known was he to all the Three, And they gave him greeting loud.... | |
| Walter McLeod - 1850 - 170 pages
...Come to the mouth of the dark lair Where, growling low, a fierce old bear Lies amidst bones and blood. Was none who would be foremost To lead such dire attack;...before cried " Back!" And backward now and forward But meanwhile axe and lever Have manfully been plied; And now the bridge hangs tottering Above the... | |
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