quoth false Sextus ; " Will not the villain drown ? But for this stay, ere close of day We should have sacked the town ! " " Heaven help him !" quoth Lars Porsena, " And bring him safe to shore ; For such a gallant feat of arms Was never seen before. Critical and Miscellaneous Essays - Page 350by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843Full view - About this book
| English literature - 1842 - 416 pages
...bravely By the brave heart within, And our good father Tiber Bare bravely up his chin. • * « • And now he feels the bottom ; Now on dry earth he...through the River-gate, Borne by the joyous crowd." As much of the public land as two oxen could plough in a day, and a statue set up in the Comitium,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Armada, 1588 - 1843 - 206 pages
...speaking sheathed The good sword by his side, And with his harness on his back, Plunged headlong in the tide. 60. No sound of joy or sorrow Was heard...through the River-Gate, Borne by the joyous crowd. K 65. They gave him of the corn-land, That was of public right, As much as two strong oxen Could plough... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - 1843 - 606 pages
...Рогзепа, " And bring him »ale to shore ; For auch я gallant feat of arms Was never seen before." And now he feels the bottom ; Now on dry earth he...round him throng the Fathers To press his gory hands ; Ai.d now with shouts and clapping, And noise of weeping loud, He eniers through the River-gate, Borne... | |
| John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1843 - 604 pages
...Lars Porsena, " And bring him sale to shore ; For such a gallant feat of arm* Was never seen before." And now he feels the bottom ; Now on dry earth he stands : Now rouud him throng the Fathers To press his gory hands ; Ar d now with shouts and clapping, And noise... | |
| English poetry - 1844 - 108 pages
...Lars Porsena, " And bring him safe to shore ; For such a gallant feat of arms Was never seen before." And now he feels the bottom ; Now on dry earth he...through the River-gate, Borne by the joyous crowd. They gave him of the corn-land, That was of public right, As much as two strong oxen Could plough from... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...Lars Porsena, " And bring him safe to shore ; For such a gallant feat of arms Was never seen before." And now he feels the bottom ; Now on dry earth he...through the river-gate, Borne by the joyous crowd. They gave him of the corn-land, That was of public right, As much as two strong oxen Could plough from... | |
| Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...Lars Porsena, " And bring him safe to shore, For such a gallant feat of arms "Was never seen before." And now he feels the bottom ; Now on dry earth he...him throng the Fathers To press his gory hands ; And soon with shouts and clapping, And noise of weeping loud, He enters through the river gate, Borne by... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...Lars Porsena, " And bring him safe to shore ; For such a gallant feat of arms Was never seen before." And now he feels the bottom ; Now on dry earth he...through the river-gate, Borne by the joyous crowd. They gave him of the corn-land, That was of public right, As much as two strong oxen Could plough from... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English poetry - 1849 - 224 pages
...Porsena, " And bring him safe to shore ; For such a gallant feat of arms Was never seen before." LXIV. And now he feels the bottom ; Now on dry earth he...round him throng the Fathers To press his gory hands ; ' " Our ladye bare upp her chinne." Ballad of Childe Waters. " Never heavier man and horse Stemmed... | |
| Walter McLeod - 1850 - 170 pages
...Lars Porsena, " And bring him safe to shore; For such a gallant feat of arms Was never seen before." And now he feels the bottom ; Now on dry earth he...Now round him throng the Fathers To press his gory hunds ; And new with shouts and clapping, And noise of weeping loud, He enters through the River-gate,... | |
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