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" Methinks I hear the drum's tumultuous sound The victor's shouts and dying groans confound ; The dreadful burst of cannon rend the skies, And all the thunder of the battle rise. "
The North-western Monthly: A Magazine Devoted to University Extension and to ... - Page 214
1898
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A Book of English Literature, Selected and Ed

Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 566 pages
...find To sing the furious troops in battle joined! Methinks I hear the drum's tumultuous sound 275 • The victor's shouts and dying groans confound, The...all the thunder of the battle rise! 'Twas then great Marlborough's mighty soul was proved. That, in the shock of charging hosts unmoved, 280 Amidst confusion,...
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English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892)

John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 806 pages
...burst of cannon rend the skies, And all the thunder of the battle rise! "Twas then great Marlborough's closing up his eyes, — Now, if thou wouldst, when...have given him over, From death to life thou might' 281 Examined all the dreadful scenes of war ; In peaceful thought the field of death surveyed, To fainting...
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A Book of English Literature, Selected and Ed

Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 924 pages
...burst of cannon rend the skies, And all the thunder of the battle rise ! 'Twas then great Marlborough's e Macmillan company 280 Amidst confusion, horror, and despair, Examined all the dreadful scenes of war; In peaceful thought...
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Readings in English Literature

Roy Bennett Pace - English literature - 1917 - 536 pages
...Campaign) But, O my muse, what numbers wilt thou find To sing the furious troops in battle, joined ! Methinks I hear the drum's tumultuous sound The victor's...confound, The dreadful burst of cannon rend the skies, 5 And all the thunder of the battle rise ! Twas then great Marlborough's mighty soul was proved. That,...
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English Poets of the Eighteenth Century

Ernest Bernbaum - English poetry - 1918 - 412 pages
...borders stands. But, O my Muse, what numbers wilt thou find To sing the furious troops in battle joined! Methinks I hear the drum's tumultuous sound The victor's...the thunder of the battle rise ! 'Twas then great Marlborough's mighty soul was proved, That, in the shock of charging hosts unmoved, Amidst confusion,...
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English Literature

Roy Bennett Pace - English literature - 1918 - 986 pages
...Campaign) But, O my muse, what numbers wilt thou find To sing the furious troops in battle joined ! Methinks I hear the drum's tumultuous sound The victor's...the skies, And all the thunder of the battle rise 1 'Twas then great Marlborough's mighty soul was proved. That, in the shock of charging hosts unmoved,...
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Rousseau and Romanticism, Volume 10

Irving Babbitt - French literature - 1919 - 462 pages
...as lurks In some wild poet when he works Without a conscience or an aim — 1 Addison writes: 'T was then great Marlbro's mighty soul was proved, That, in the shock of changing hosts unmoved, Amidst confusion, horror, and despair, Examin'd all the dreadful scenes of...
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English Prose and Poetry

John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...MARLBOROUGH But, О my muse, what numbers wilt thou find To sing the furious troops in battle joined! ore our eyes, we should not know one landscape in a Marlborough's mighty soul was proved. That, in the shock of charging hosts unmoved, Amidst confusion,...
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The Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse

David Nichol Smith - English poetry - 1926 - 744 pages
...'Blenheim BUT O, my Muse, what Numbers wilt thou find To sing the furious Troops in Battel join'd ! Methinks I hear the Drum's tumultuous Sound The Victor's...Cannon rend the Skies, And all the Thunder of the Battel rise. 'Twas then Great MARLBRO'S mighty Soul was prov'd, That, in the Shock of Charging Hosts...
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A Short Life of Marlborough

Henry John Edwards, Ethel Ashton Edwards, Mrs. Ethel Ashton Edwards - Great Britain - 1926 - 340 pages
...of his day, was true enough in the familiar lines of his Campaign: " 'Twas then great Marlborough's mighty soul was proved. That in the shock of charging hosts unmoved . . . Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage." General...
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