 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1843 - 626 pages
...They felt the timbers crack. But when they turned their faces, And on the farther shore Saw. brave Horatius stand alone, They would have crossed once...triumph Rose from the walls of Rome, As to the highest turret-tops Was splashed the yellow foam. And like a horse unbroken When first he feels the rein, The... | |
 | English literature - 1842 - 416 pages
...bridge, and the floating of the ruin down the tide, are described in the following beautiful lines — " But with a crash like thunder Fell every loosened...triumph Rose from the walls of Rome, As to the highest turret-tops Was splashed the yellow foam. And, like a horse unbroken, When first he feels the rein,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - 1843 - 606 pages
...feet They felt the timbers crack. But when they turned their faces, And on the farther shore Saw brave turret-tops Was splashed the yellow foam. And, like a horse unbroken When first he feels the rein.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 438 pages
...faces, And on the farther shore Saw brave Horatius stand alone, They would have crossed once more. 55. But with a crash like thunder Fell every loosened...triumph Rose from the walls of Rome, As to the highest turret-tops Was splashed the yellow foam. 56. And, like a horse unbroken When first he feels the rein,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English poetry - 1843 - 142 pages
...faces, And on the farther shore Saw brave Horatius stand alone, They would have crossed once more. 55. But with a crash like thunder Fell every loosened...triumph Rose from the walls of Rome, As to the highest turret-tops Was splashed the yellow foam. 56. And, like a horse unbroken When first he feels the rein,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1843 - 604 pages
...TUi'y felt the timbers crack. But wlien they turned their faces, And on i in- farther shore Saw brave Horatius stand alone. '' They would have crossed once...And, like a dam, the mighty wreck Lay right athwart tho stream : And a long shout of triumph Rose from the walle of Rome, As to the highest turret-tops... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Armada, 1588 - 1843 - 206 pages
...faces, And on the farther shore Saw brave Horatius stand alone, They would have crossed once more. 55. But with a crash like thunder Fell every loosened...right athwart the stream : And a long shout of triumph Hose from the walls of Rome, As to the highest turret-tops Was splashed the yellow foam. 56. And, like... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 108 pages
...feet They felt the timbers crack. But when they turned their faces, And on the farther shore Saw brave Horatius stand alone, They would have crossed once...triumph Rose from the walls of Rome, As to the highest turret-tops Was splashed the yellow foam. And, like a horse unbroken When first he feels the rein,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...Horatius stand alone, They would have cross'd once more. But with a crash like thunder Fell every loosen'd beam, And, like a dam, the mighty wreck Lay right...triumph Rose from the walls of Rome As to the highest turret-tops Was splash'd the yellow foam. And, like a horse unbroken When first he feels the rein,... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...Horatius stand alone, They would have cross'd once more. But with a crash like thunder Fell every loosen'd beam, And, like a dam, the mighty wreck Lay right athwart the stream : And a long shout of triumph Kose from the walls of Rome, As to the highest turret-tops Was splash'd the yellow ' foam. And, like... | |
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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. 
