| Dante Alighieri - 1892 - 462 pages
...: — O for a blast of that dread horn, On Fontarabian echoes borne, That to King Charles did come, When Rowland brave, and Olivier, And every paladin and peer, On Roncesvalles died ! Orlando's horn is one of the favorite fictions of old romance, and is surpassed in power only by... | |
| David Hoekzema - English poetry - 1893 - 368 pages
...— O for a blast of that dread horn , On Fontarabian echoes borne, That to King Charles did come, When Rowland brave, and Olivier, And every paladin and peer , On Roncesvalles died ! Such blast might warn them, not in vain, To quit the plunder of the slain , And turn the doubtful... | |
| William Macneile Dixon - English poetry - 1894 - 258 pages
...Home ? O, for a blast of that dread horn On Fontarabian echoes borne, That to King Charles did come, When Rowland brave, and Olivier, And every Paladin and peer, On Roncesvalles died ! . . . Front, flank and rear the squadrons sweep, To break the Scottish circle deep, That fought around... | |
| Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh - 1904 - 756 pages
...Beowulf and Roland, p.171-22;.) J3g8 Gas Tells of the great disaster which befel the army of Charlemagne "When Rowland brave, and Olivier, And every paladin and peer, On Roncesvalles died." Guerber, HMA Magic ring. (In her Legends of the Rhine, p.8i-8s.) 398 GQS Legend of the beautiful Eastern... | |
| Paget Jackson Toynbee - Guelfs and Ghibellines - 1898 - 642 pages
...away,— the 1 blast of that dread horn, On Fontarabian «hoes borne. That to Kin; Charles did come. When Rowland brave and Olivier And every Paladin and Peer On Roncesvalles died '— Ormanni Orosio, Paolo and which D. compares to the horn sounded in Hell by the giant Nimrod, Inf.... | |
| Dante Alighieri - 1899 - 744 pages
...:— " O for a blast of that dread horn On Fontarabian echoes borne That to King Charles did come, When Rowland brave and Olivier, And every Paladin and peer On Roncesvalles died ! " I can recommend any one who has a knowledge of Italian to read the pathetic account of this disaster... | |
| Walter Scott - 1900 - 782 pages
...— 0, for a blast of that dread horn, On Fontarabian echoes borne, That to King Charles did come, When Rowland brave, and Olivier, And every paladin and peer, On Roncesvalles died ! Such blast might warn them, not in vain, To quit the plunder of the slain, And turn the doubtful... | |
| Arthur Stanley - English poetry - 1901 - 408 pages
...O, for a blast of that dread horn, On Fontarabian echoes borne, That to King Charles did come, Whan Rowland brave, and Olivier, And every paladin and peer, On Roncesvalles died! Such blast might warn them, not in vain, To quit the plunder of the slain, And turn the doubtful day... | |
| Arthur Grant - Great Britain - 1903 - 300 pages
...' O, for a blast of that dread horn, On Fontarabian echoes borne, * That to King Charles did come, When Rowland brave, and Olivier, And every paladin and peer, On Roncesvalles died ! ' — Marmion. ' When Charlemain with all his peerage fell, By Fontarabbia.' — Paradise Lost. THE... | |
| Harold Edgeworth Butler - English poetry - 1903 - 248 pages
...Home ? O for a blast of that dread horn, On Fontarabian echoes borne, That to King Charles did come, When Rowland brave, and Olivier, And every paladin and peer, On Roncesvalles died! Such blast might warn them, not in vain, To quit the plunder of the slain, And turn the doubtful day... | |
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