 Scot," exclaims the Lance, Bear me to the heart of France, Is the longing of the Shield — Tell thy name, thou trembling Field ; Field of death, where'er thou be, Groan thou with our victory ! Happy day, and mighty hour, When our Shepherd, in his power,...  Anecdotes of the aristocracy, and episodes in ancestral story - Page 297by sir John Bernard Burke - 1849Full view - About this book
 | John Stuart Colquhoun - English language - 1871 - 264 pages
...pain." | — DRYDEN. The following lines are composed of three trochees and a syllable over : — | " Happy | day, and | mighty ] hour, | | When our | Shepherd...power, | Mailed and horsed, with lance and sword, Prosody. To his ancestors restored ; Trochaics. Like a reappearing star, Like a glory from afar, First... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1872 - 584 pages
...the.lance — Bear me to the heart of France, Is the longing of the shield — Tell thy name, thou trembling field ; Field of death, where'er thou be,...and mighty hour, When our shepherd, in his power, * It is imagined by the people of the country that there are two immortal fish, inhabitants of this... | |
 | American literature - 1879 - 592 pages
...the Lance — Bear me to the heart of France, Is the longing of the Shield — Tell thy name, thou trembling Field ; Field of death, where'er thou be, Groan thou with our victory ! Happy clay, and mighty hour, When our Shepherd, in his power, Mailed and horsed, with lance and sword, To... | |
 | 1873 - 598 pages
...exclaims the Lance ; Bear me to the heart of France, Is the longing of the shield — Tell thy name, thon trembling Field ; Field of death, where'er thou be,...glory from afar, First shall head the flock of war ! " Then the great poet, like Timotheus in Dryden's jusily famous ode, " changed his hand and checked... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1873 - 628 pages
...exclaims the Lance ; Bear me to the heart of France, Is the longing of the shield — Tell thy name, thou trembling Field ; Field of death, where'er thou be,...Star, Like a glory from afar, First shall head the ttock of war ! " Then the great poet, like Timotheus in Dryden's justly famous ode, " changed his hand... | |
 | American literature - 1873 - 808 pages
...exclaims the lance; Bear me to the heart of France, Is the longing of the shield — Tell thy name, thou trembling Field ; Field of death, where'er thou be,...ancestors restored Like a reappearing Star, Like a glorv from afar, First shall head the flock of war !" Then the great poet, like Timotheus in Dry den's... | |
 | College students' writings, Irish (English) - 1873 - 466 pages
...the lance ; " Bear me to the heart of France " Is the longing of the shield. " Tell thy name, thou trembling field ; Field of death, where'er thou be,...day, and mighty hour, When our Shepherd in his power, Mail'd and horsed, with lance and sword, To his ancestors restored, Like a reappearing star, Like a... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - English poetry - 1875 - 728 pages
...Saddleback. I fierceness even in that fierce age. la the longing of the Shield: Tell thy name, thou trembling Field ; Field of death, where'er thou be....and mighty hour, When our Shepherd, in his power, Mail'd and horsed, with lance and To his ancestors restored [sword, Like a re-appearing Star, Like... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1878 - 570 pages
...the lance ; ' Bear me to the heart of France,' Is the longing of the shield— Tell thy name, thou trembling field; Field of death, where'er thou be....glory from afar, First shall head the flock of war ! " Then the great poet, like Timotheus in Dryden's justly famous ode, "changed his hand and checked... | |
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