 | James Fleming - 1866 - 382 pages
...a dam, the mighty wreck Lay right athwart the stream : And a long shout of triumph Rose from walls of Rome, As to the highest turret-tops Was splashed...like a horse unbroken, When first he feels the rein, And burst the curb, and bounded, Rejoicing to be free, And whirling down in fierce career, Battlement,... | |
 | Robert Armstrong (master of Madras coll) - 1866 - 142 pages
...And a long shout of triumph Rose from the walls of Rorne, As to the highest turret-tops Was splash'd the yellow foam. And, like a horse unbroken When first...feels the rein, The furious river struggled hard, And toss'd his tawny mane; And burst the curb, and bounded, Rejoicing to be free; And whirling down, in... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - Virtues - 1866 - 506 pages
...dam, the mighty wreck Lay right athwart the stream ; And a long shout of triumph Rose from the walls of Rome, As to the highest turret-tops Was splashed the yellow foam." , The one last champion, behind a rampart of dead enemies, remained till the destruction was complete.... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1866 - 738 pages
...dam, the mighty wreck Lay right athwart the stream : And a long shout of triumph Rose from the walls of Rome, As to the highest turret-tops Was splashed the yellow foam. LVI. And, like a horse unbroken When first he feels the rein, The furious river struggled hard, And... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Rome - 1868 - 288 pages
...triumph Rose from the walls of Borne, As to the highest turret-topa Was splashed the yellow foam. LVI. And, like a horse unbroken When first he feels the...tossed his tawny mane, And burst the curb, and bounded, 7* • . Rejoicing to be free, And whirling down, in fierce career, Battlement, and plank, and pier,... | |
 | Andrew Comstock, Philip Lawrence - Elocution - 1808 - 596 pages
...dam, the mighty wreck Lay right athwart the stream And a long shout of triumph Rose from the walls of Rome, As to the highest turret-tops Was splashed...yellow foam. And like a horse, unbroken When first he /eels the rein, The furious river struggled hard, And tossed his tawny mane ; And burst the curb, and... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - Elocution - 1869 - 416 pages
...dam, the mighty wreck Lay right athwart the stream : And a long shout of triumph Rose from the walls of Rome, As to the highest turret-tops Was splashed...burst the curb, and bounded, Rejoicing to be free : And whirling down, in fierce careerf Battlement, and plank, and pier, Rushed headlong to the sea.... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 pages
...dam, the mighty wreck Lay right athwart the stream : And along shout of triumph Rose from the walls of Rome, As to the highest turret-tops Was splashed...burst the curb, and bounded, Rejoicing to be free, And whirling down in fierce career, Battlement, and plank, and pier, Rushed headlong to the sea. Horatiua... | |
 | English poetry - 1869 - 328 pages
...dam, the mighty wreck Lay right athwart the stream : And a long shout of triumph Rose from the walls of Rome, As to the highest turret-tops Was splashed...burst the curb, and bounded, Rejoicing to be free ; And whirling down, in fierce career, Battlement, and plank, and pier, Rushed headlong to the sea,... | |
 | Choice readings - 1869 - 262 pages
...dam, the mighty wreck , lay right athwart the stream : And a long ehout of triumph Rose from the walls of Rome, As to the highest turret-tops Was splashed the yellow foam. " Alone stood brave Horatius, But constant still in mind ; Thrice thirty thousand foes before, And... | |
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But with a crash like thunder Fell every loosened beam, And like a dam the mighty wreck Lay right athwart the stream ; And a long shout of triumph Rose from the walls of Rome As to the highest turret-tops Was splashed the yellow foam. 
