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" With sword-sway and with lance's thrust; And such a yell was there Of sudden and portentous birth, As if 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. "
The Whigs of Scotland: Or, The Last of the Stuarts. An Historical Romance of ... - Page 150
by William Craig Brownlee - 1833 - 204 pages
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 12

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...
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Marmion;: A Tale of Flodden Field, Volume 1

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...
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The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 5

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...
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The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review, Volume 31

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...
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Select Reviews, Volumes 1-2

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...
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Select Reviews, and Spirit of the Foreign Magazines, Volume 1

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...
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The Works of Walter Scott, Esq: Marmion; a tale of Flodden field

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...
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Anster fair, a poem [by W. Tennant].

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...
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The Poetical Works of Walter Scott, Esq, Volume 3

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...
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The poetical works of Walter Scott, Volume 4

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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