 But when he came, though pale and wan, He looked so great and high, So noble was his manly front, So calm his steadfast eye ; — The rabble rout forbore to shout, And each man held his breath, For well they knew the hero's soul Was face to face with...  Vassall Morton: A Novel - Page 62by Francis Parkman - 1856 - 414 pagesFull view - About this book
 | England - 1885 - 426 pages
...his manly front, So calm his steadfast eye, The rabble rout forbore to shout, And each man held his breath, For well they knew the hero's soul Was face to face with death. And then a mournful shudder Through all the people crept, And some that came to scoff at him Now turned... | |
 | Henry Fitz Randolph - Ballads, English - 1887 - 336 pages
...manly front, So calm his steadfast eye ; — The rabble rout forbore to shout And each man held his breath, For well they knew the hero's soul Was face to face with death. And then a mournful shudder Through all the people crept, And some that came to scoff at him Now turned... | |
 | 1889 - 542 pages
...his manly front, so calm his steadfast eye, the rabble rout forbore to shout, and each man held his breath, for well they knew the hero's soul was face to face with death". Da kommt Montrose an dem Hause vorbei, wo sein schlimmster Feind Argyle seiner wartet: „The Marquis... | |
 | Max Koch, Ludwig Geiger, Wilhelm Wetz, Joseph Collin, Philipp August Becker - Literature - 1889 - 554 pages
...his manly front, so calm his steadfast eye, the rabble rout forbore to shout, and each man held his breath, for well they knew the hero's soul was face to face with death". Da kommt Montrose an dem Hause vorbei, wo sein schlimmster Feind Argyle seiner wartet: „The Marquis... | |
 | Blanche Wilder Bellamy - Readers - 1890 - 410 pages
...his manly front, so calm his steadfast eye, The rabble rout forebore to shout, and each man held his breath ; For well they knew the hero's soul was face to face with death. Had I been there, with sword in hand, and fifty Camerons by, That day, through high Dun^din's streets... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - American poetry - 1890 - 342 pages
...and to his son. 3 Bow : a bow or bay-window. The rabble rout forebore to shout, And each man held his breath, For well they knew the hero's soul Was face to face with death. And then a mournful shudder Through all the people crept, And some that came to scoff at him Now turned... | |
 | William James Rolfe - Scotland - 1891 - 234 pages
...manly front, So calm his steadfast eye, The rabble rout forbore to shout, 65 And each man held his breath, For well they knew the hero's soul Was face to face with death. 1 Let loose. * The thong by which the hound is held. 3 Bow-window. 4 In a row. And then a mournful... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 462 pages
...So calm his steadfast eye ; — The rabble rout forrbore to shout And each man held his breath, Tor well they knew the hero's soul Was face to face with death. And then a mournful shudder Through all the people crept. And some that came to scoff at him Now tnrnril... | |
 | Alfred Kingston - Great Britain - 1894 - 232 pages
...around them was a great crowd of people. The rabble rout forbore to shout-, And each m¡in lu'ld his breath. For well they knew the hero's soul, Was face to face with death ! Colonel Axtell, addressing the Sheriff, said : " Mr. Sheriff, I am now, as you see, conic to the... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - English poetry - 1895 - 802 pages
...his manly front, So calm his steadfast eye, The rabble rout forbore to shout, And each man held his breath, For well they knew the hero's soul Was face to face with death. And then a mournful shudder Through all the people crept, And some that came to scoff at him Now turn'd... | |
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