 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1866 - 408 pages
...remained facing the foe until tha last timber had fallen, when, weighed down with armour as he was, he "plunged headlong in the tide."] No sound of joy or...surprise. With parted lips and straining eyes. Stood gazing where he sank : And when beneath the surges They saw his crest appear, All Rome sent forth a... | |
 | Readers - 1866 - 408 pages
...remained facing the foe until tha last timber had fallen, when, weighed down with armour as he was, he "plunged headlong in the tide."] No sound of joy or...surprise, With parted lips and straining eyes, Stood gazing where he sank : And when beneath the surges They saw his crest appear, All Rome sent forth a... | |
 | Robert Armstrong (master of Madras coll) - 1866 - 142 pages
...the noble river That rolls by the towers of Rome :— « 0 Tiber ! father Tiber! To whom the Eomans pray; A Roman's life, a Roman's arms, Take thou in charge this day!" So he spake, and speaking, sheath'd The good sword by his side, And with the harness on his back Plunged headlong in the tide.... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - Virtues - 1866 - 506 pages
...home, And. he spake to the noble river That rolls by the walls of Rome ; ' O Tiber ! father Tiber ! To whom the Romans pray, A Roman's life, a Roman's arms, Take thou in charge this day.' " And with this brief prayer he leapt into the foaming stream. Polybius was told that he was there... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - Rome - 1867 - 222 pages
...; And he spake to the noble river That rolls by the towers of Rome. MX. " Oh, Tiber! father Tiber! To whom the Romans pray, A Roman's life, a Roman's arms, Take thou in charge this day I" So he spake, and speaking sheathed The good sword by his side, And with his harness on his back,... | |
 | Andrew Comstock, Philip Lawrence - Elocution - 1808 - 596 pages
...home ; And he spake to the noble river That rolls by the towers of Rome. "Oh, Tiber! father Tiber! To whom the Romans pray, A Roman's life, a Roman's...surprise, With parted lips and straining eyes, Stood gazing where he sank ; And when above the surges They saw his crest appear, All Rome sent forth a rapturous... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1868 - 202 pages
...; And he spake to the noble river That rolls by the towers of Rome. " ' Oh, Tiber ! father Tiber ! To whom the Romans pray, A Roman's life, a Roman's...surprise, With parted lips and straining eyes, Stood gazing where he sank ; And when above the surges They saw his crest appear, All Rome sent forth a rapturous... | |
 | James Whiteside - Great Britain - 1868 - 498 pages
...to the noble river That rolls by the towers of Rome. ' Oh, Tiber, father Tiber ! To whom the Roraans pray, A Roman's life, a Roman's arms, Take thou in...he spake, and,, speaking, sheathed The good sword hy his side, And, with his harness on his back, Plunged headlong in the tide. No sound of joy or -sorrow... | |
 | James Whiteside - Great Britain - 1868 - 518 pages
...home ; And he spake to the noble river That rolls by the towers of Rome. ' Oh, Tiber, father Tiber ! To whom the Romans pray, A Roman's life, a Roman's...arms, Take thou in charge this day ! ' So he spake, andr speaking, sheathed The good sword by his side, And, with his harness on his back, Plunged headlong... | |
 | Charles Bilton - 1868 - 216 pages
...home ; And he spake to the noble river That rolls by the towers of Rome. ' Oh, Tiber ! father Tiber ! To whom the Romans pray, A Roman's life, a Roman's arms, Take thou in charge this day 1 ' So he spake, and speaking sheathed The good sword by his side, And with his harness on his back,... | |
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Tiber! father Tiber! To whom the Romans pray, A Roman's life, a Roman's arms, Take thou in charge this day ! ' So he spake, and speaking sheathed The good sword by his side, And with his harness on his back Plunged headlong in the tide. 
