| George Willson - Elocution - 1840 - 298 pages
...by despair, Fight but to die.— "Is Wilton there V — With that, straight up the hill there rode 3 Two horsemen, drenched with gore, And in their arms,...helpless load, A wounded knight they bore. His hand slill strained the broken brand; His arms were smeared with blood, and sand ; Dragged from among the... | |
| English poetry - 1840 - 378 pages
...Fight but to die, " Is Wilton there V With that, straight up the hill there rode Two horsemen drench'd with gore, And, in their arms, a helpless load, A wounded knight they bore. His hand still strain'd the broken brand, His arms were smear'd with blood and sand : Dragg'd from among the horses'... | |
| Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 pages
...but to die,—" Is Wilton there?" With that, straight up the bill there rodo Two horsemen drcnch'd with gore, And in their arms, a helpless load, A wounded knight they bore. His hand still strain'd the broken brand ; His arms were smear'd with blood and sand : Dragg'd from among the horses'... | |
| Walter Scott - 1845 - 380 pages
...but to die, — "Is Wilton there?" With that, straight up the hill there rede Two horsemen drench'd with gore, And in their arms, a helpless load, A wounded knight they bore. His hand still strain'd the broken brand ; His arms were smear'd with blood and sand : Dragg'd from among the horses'... | |
| Walter Scott - 1843 - 732 pages
...Wilton there?" — They fly, or, maddened hv despair, Fight hut to die.—" Is Wilton there Г— With that, straight up the hill there rode Two horsemen...broken brand; His arms were smeared with blood, and saad: Dragged from among the horses' feet, Witb dinted shield, and helmet beat, The falcon-crest and... | |
| George Willson - American literature - 1844 - 300 pages
...despair, Fight but to die. — " Is Wilton there 1" — With that, straight up the hill there rode 3 Two horsemen, drenched with gore, And in their arms,...horses' feet, With dinted shield, and helmet beat, The falcon-crest and plumage gone; Can that be haughty Marmion ! Young Blount his armor did unlace, 4 And,... | |
| American periodicals - 1862 - 670 pages
...were so defaced, that he was hardly to be recognized when dragged from beneath a heap of slain — ' His hand still strained the broken brand, His arms...beat, The falcon crest and plumage gone, — Can that bo haughty Marmion "i " And can that stripped and mutilated corpse be the crowned monarch who at morning's... | |
| General reciter - 1845 - 348 pages
...but to die.— "Is Wilton there?"— With that, straight up the hill there rodu Two horsemen drench'd with gore, And in their arms, a helpless load, A wounded...horses' feet, With dinted shield, and helmet beat, The falcon-crest and plumage gone : Con that be haughty IVIarmion ! Young Blount his armour did unlace,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1848 - 754 pages
...artillery, to their passing the river. With that, straight up the hill there rode Two horsemen drench'd with gore, And in their arms, a helpless load, A wounded knight they bore. His hand still strain'd the broken brand ; His arms were srnear'd with blood and sand : Dragg'd from among the horses'... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1848 - 306 pages
...bore. His hand still strain'd the broken brand ; His arms were smear'd with blood and sand : Dragg'd from among the horses' feet, With dinted shield, and helmet beat, The falcon-crest and plumage gone, Can that be haughty Marmion ? . . . . When, doff 'd his casque, he felt... | |
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