 The hum of either army stilly sounds, That the fix'd sentinels almost receive The secret whispers of each other's watch: Fire answers fire; and through their paly flames Each battle sees the other's umber'd face: Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful...  Pandora's Box - Page 35by John Ames Mitchell - 1911 - 390 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 672 pages
...other's umbered face : Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs Piercing the night's dull ear ; and from the tents, The armourers, accomplishing the...closing rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation. The country cocks do crow, the clocks do toll, And the third hour of drowsy morning name. Proud of... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 110 pages
...umber'd face : Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs, Piercing the night's dull ear : and from the tents, The armourers, accomplishing the...closing rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation. The country cocks do crow ; the clocks do toll, And the third hour of drowsy morning name. Proud of... | |
 | Edmund Carmick Watmough, William Linn Brown, Edward Coxe Watmough - Fishing - 1844 - 202 pages
...number'd face. Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs, Piercing the night's dull ear ; and from the tents, The armourers, accomplishing the...closing rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation. SHAKSPEARE. AFTER the capture of Fort George in 1813, the British forces retired to the head of Lake... | |
 | Charles Mills - Chivalry - 1844 - 542 pages
...instantaneous celerity; but the dressing of a plate-armed knight was no simple matter. " From the tenta The armourers, accomplishing the knights, With busy...closing rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation." Besides this deprivation of rest before a battle, the knight, in order to prevent surprise, was obliged... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...in high and boastful n»:L"b;. Piercing the night's dull ear ; and from the !сп'л The armourer«, The country cocks do crow, the clocks do toll, And the third hour of drowsy morning name. Proud of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 470 pages
...Discolored by the gleam of the fires. Piercing the night's dull ear ; and from the tents. The armorers, accomplishing the knights, With busy hammers closing rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation. The country cocks do crow, the clocks do toll, And the third hour of drowsy morning name. Proud of... | |
 | Jean Froissart, Enguerrand de Monstrelet - Battles - 1847 - 454 pages
...other's umber'd face : Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs Piercing the night's dull ear : and from the tents, The armourers, accomplishing the...closing rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation. The country cocks do crow, the clocks do toll, And the third hour of drowsy morning name. Proud of... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers - Azerbaijan - 1847 - 592 pages
...umber'd face ' : Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs Piercing the night's dull ear ; and from the tents, The armourers, accomplishing the...closing rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation. The country cocks do crow, the clocks do toll, And the third hour of drowsy morning name. Proud of... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...other's umber'd face. Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs, Piercing the night's dull ear'; re events. And set dissension 'twixt the son and sire...discontents, As dry combustious matter is to fire. The country cocks do crow, the clocks do toll, And the third hour of drowsy morning name. Proud of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1848 - 456 pages
...umber'd face :3 Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs Piercing the night's dull ear ; and from the tents, The armourers, accomplishing the knights, With busy hammers closing rivets up,4 Give dreadful note of preparation. The country cocks do crow, the clocks do toll, And the third... | |
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