| John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1844 - 318 pages
.... If ever more should meet those mutual eyes, Since upon night so sweet such awful morn could rise? And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The...peal afar; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning star; While throng'd the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering,... | |
| Quaver - Songs - 1844 - 552 pages
...If ever more should meet those mutual eyes, Since upon night so sweet such awful morn could rise ? And there was mounting in hot haste : the steed, The...peal afar ; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Rous'd up the soldier ere the morning star ; While throng'd the citizens with terror dumb, > whispering... | |
| English poetry - 1844 - 110 pages
...If ever more should meet those mutual eyes, Since upon night so sweet such awful morn could rise ! And there was mounting in hot haste : the steed, The...peal, afar ; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning star ; While throng'd the citizens, with terror dumb, Or whispering,... | |
| William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 428 pages
...alleys green : Brown Exercise rejoiced to hear ; And Sport leaped up, and seized his beechen spear. 3. And there was mounting in hot haste : — the steed,...impetuous speed And swiftly forming in the ranks of war ; While the deep thunder, peal on peal, afar, And near, the beat of the alarming drum, Roused up the... | |
| William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 494 pages
...If ever more should meet those mutual eyes, Since upon night so sweet such awful morn could rise ? And there was mounting in hot haste : the steed, The...peal, afar, And near, the beat of the alarming drum, Roused up the soldier, ere the morning star ; While thronged the citizens, with terror dumb, Or whispering,... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1817 - 862 pages
...If ever more should meet those mutual eyes, Since upon nights so sweet such awful morn could rise ? And there was mounting in hot haste : the steed, The...clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, Anil swiftly forming in the ranks of war ; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar ; And near the beat... | |
| English literature - 1816 - 592 pages
...more should meet those mutual eyes, Since upon nights so sweet such awful morn could rise J XXV. ' And there was mounting in hot haste : the steed, The...peal afar ; And near, the beat of the alarming drum 'Roused up the soldier ere the morning star ; While throng'd the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering,... | |
| James Chapman - Elocution - 378 pages
...mustering squadron and the clattering car Went pawing forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming iu the ranks of war ; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar ; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier o1er the morning star ; While thronged the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering,... | |
| Ross Greig Woodman - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 200 pages
...succeeded "sweet nights" than suddenly "the ranks of war" are on their way to the battlefield (3.21-4): And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The...squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward in impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war. (3.25) The two stanzas from which a moment... | |
| American poetry - 1993 - 412 pages
...guess If ever more should meet those mutual eyes, Since upon night so sweet such awful morn could rise! And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The...peal afar; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning star; While thronged the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering,... | |
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