| 1808 - 556 pages
...of fmoke and duft, With fword-fway, and with lance's thruft ; And fuch a yell was there, Of fudden and portentous birth, As if men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air. Long looked the anxious fquires ; their eye Could in the darknefs nought defcry. At length the frelhening... | |
| Walter Scott - Flodden, Battle of, England, 1513 - 1808 - 526 pages
...mountain-throne King James did rushing come.— Scarce could they hear, or see their foes, Until at weapon-point they close. — They close, in clouds of smoke and...men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air. Long looked the anxious squires ; their eye Could in the darkness nought descry. XXVII. At length the... | |
| Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1808 - 710 pages
...Until at weapon-point they close. — They close in cloud* of smoke and dust, With •word-sway.and with lance's thrust; And such a yell was there, Of...men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air. Longlmikcdthcanxioussejuircs; their eye Could in the darkness nought descry. At length the freshening... | |
| 1808 - 732 pages
...clouds of fmoke and dutt, With fword-fway and with lance's thruft, And fuch a yell was there, Of fudden and portentous birth, As if men fought upon the earth And fiends in upper air. Long looked the anxious fquires, the« eye Could in the darknefs nought defcry. «« At length the... | |
| 1809 - 914 pages
...throne King James did rushing come. — Scarce could they hear or see their foes, Pntil at weapon-point they close. — They close in clouds of smoke and...men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air. Ixing looked the anxious squires; their cy Could in the darkness nought descry. At length the freshening... | |
| Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1809 - 494 pages
...throne King James did rushing come. — Scarce could they hear or see their foes, Until at weapon-point they close. — They close in clouds of smoke and...men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air. Long looked the anxious squires ; their cyy Could in the darkness nought descry. At length the freshening... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 536 pages
...mountain-throne King James did rushing come. — Scarce could they hear, or see their foes, Until at weapon-point they close. — They close, in clouds of smoke and...men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air ; O life and death were in the shout, Recoil and rally, charge and rout, And triumph and despair. Long... | |
| William Tennant - 1814 - 274 pages
...and drone was there,* As if on earth men pip'd, and devils dron'd in air, * Such a yell was there, As if men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air. SCOTT'S Jtfff •••"•'•"'• XXVI. Thus did the crowd with fiddle, lungs and drone, Congratulate... | |
| Walter Scott - 1818 - 372 pages
...With sword-sway, and with lance's thrust ; And such a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous hirth, As if men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air. Long looked the anxious squires ; their eye Could in the darkness nought descry. XXVI. At length the... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 306 pages
...from his mountain-throne They close, in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway, and with lances thrust; And such a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous...men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air; O life and death were in the shout, Recoil and rally, charge and rout, And triumph and despair. Long... | |
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