 | Thomas W. Handford - Recitations, American - 1881 - 438 pages
...to the mouth of the dark lair Where, growling low, a fierce old bear Lies amidst bones and blood. L. Was none who would be foremost To lead such dire attack...And the victorious trumpet-peal Dies fitfully away. LI. Yet one man for one moment Strode out before the crowd ; Well known was he to all the three, And... | |
 | Recitations - 1883 - 238 pages
...noblest Felt their hearts sink to see On the earth the bloody corpses, In the path the dauntless Three. Was none who would be foremost To lead such dire attack...cried " Forward ! " And those before cried " Back ! " Yet one man for one moment Strode out before the crowd ; • Well known was he to all the Three,... | |
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - American ballads - 1883 - 338 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...behind cried " Forward ! And those before cried " Back ! " en D o K P8 OC J And backward now and forward Wavers the deep array ; And on the tossing sea of... | |
 | London readers - 1884 - 216 pages
...bravery. Afterwards, the Romans raised a monument to his memory. So runs the legend.] 13. WAS none1 who would be foremost To lead such dire* attack :...To and fro the standards reel ; And the victorious trumpet peal Dies fitfully away. 14. Yet one man for one moment "Now welcome, welcome, Sextus ! Now... | |
 | New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives - 1885 - 1018 pages
...Ancient Rome," where Horatius kept the bridge, and held the huge host at bay when there Mr. Hislop Was none who would be foremost To lead such dire attack...cried " Forward ! " And those before cried " Back 1 " It has been myself and other members lue myself who have been urging the honourable gentleman that... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Rome - 1887 - 250 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. LI. Yet one man for one moment Stood out before the crowd ; Well known was he to all the Three, And... | |
 | John Knox Laughton - France - 1887 - 492 pages
...cocked his pistol and swore he'd be the death of the foremost of them ; but then, as in ancient days — Was none who would be foremost To lead such dire attack...cried ' Forward ! ' And those before cried ' Back ! ' Eventually thirty more men were ordered up, and, some way or other, the fifty managed to escape... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Rome - 1888 - 258 pages
...men of prowess, Nor men of lordly race ; For all Etruria's noblest Were round the fatal place. xwx. But all Etruria's noblest Felt their hearts sink to...And the victorious trumpet-peal Dies fitfully away. 14. Yet one man for one moment Stood out before the crowd ; "Now welcome, welcome Sextus ! Now welcome... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - English literature - 1888 - 658 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. LL Yet one man for one moment Strode out before the crowd ; Weil known was he to all the Three, And... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Armada, 1588 - 1889 - 282 pages
...Lies amidst bones and blood. t. Was none whj would be foremost To lead such dire attack ; But thoue behind cried "Forward!" And those before cried " Back!"...And the victorious trumpet-peal Dies fitfully away. 13. Yet one man for one moment Strode out before the crowd ; Well known was he to all the Threej And... | |
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... earth the bloody corpses, In the path the dauntless Three : And, from the ghastly entrance Where those bold Romans stood, All shrank, like boys who unaware, Ranging the woods to start a hare, Come to the mouth of the dark lair Where, growling low,... 
