 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1810 - 468 pages
...broad-sword bright Was brandishing like beam of light, Each targe was dark below ; And with the ocean's mighty swing, When heaving to the tempest's wing, They hurled them on the foe. * A circle of sportsmen, who, by surrounding a great space, and gradually narrowing, brought immense... | |
 | Walter Scott - Arthurian legend - 1810 - 454 pages
...broad-sword bright Was brandishing like beam of light, Each targe was dark below ; And with the ocean's mighty swing, When heaving to the tempest's wing, They hurled them on the foe. * A circle of sportsmen, who, by surrounding a great space, and gradually narrowing, brought immense... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Elocution - 1836 - 534 pages
...broadsword bright Was brandishing like beam of light, Each targe was dark below ; And with the ocean's mighty swing, When heaving to the tempest's wing, They hurled them on the foe. I heard the lance's shivering crash, As when the whirlwind rends the ash ; I heard the broadsword's... | |
 | Edward Bell Stephens - País Vasco (Spain) - 1837 - 334 pages
...broad-sword bright, Was brandishing like beam of light, Each targe was dark below. And with the ocean's mighty swing, When heaving to the tempest's wing, They hurled them on the foe!" : A BISCAYAN VESTRIS. 171 Thus did this disinterested Basque heroine, and it was truly surprising to... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1837 - 334 pages
...broadsword bright Was brandishing like beam of light, Each targe was bright below ; And with the ocean's mighty swing, When heaving to the tempest's wing, They hurled them on their foe." Lady of the Lahe. EXAMPLE 18.—" But yonder comes the powerful King of day, Rejoicing... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1837 - 334 pages
...broadsword bright Was brandishing like beam of light, Each targe was bright below; And with the ocean's mighty swing, When heaving to the tempest's wing, They hurled them on their foe." Lady of the Lake. EXAMPLE 18.—"But yonder comes the powerful King of day, Rejoicing in... | |
 | John Mitchell - Eastern question (Central Asia) - 1838 - 414 pages
...that separated the two armies, wheeled up in front of the hostile columns, and then " Like the ocean's mighty swing, When heaving to the tempest's wing, They hurled them on the foe," driving the whole of Soubise's army, 50,000 strong, in utter confusion from the ground. Though the events of the war were... | |
 | Walter Scott, J. W. Lake - Poetry - 1838 - 496 pages
...Was brandishing like beam of light, Each targe was dark below; Vnd with the ocean's mighty «wing, When heaving to the tempest's wing, They hurled them on the foe. heard the lance's shivering crash, As when the whirlwind rends the ash; . heard the broadsword's deadly... | |
 | 1843 - 778 pages
...columns, and then, ' Like ocean's mighty swing, When heaving to the tempest's wing, They hurled ihem on the foe,' driving the whole of Sonbise's army,...(Marshal Saxe) "I saw two battalions cut to pieces in an instant. The afT.ur happened in thn following manner : A battalion of Lorraine, and one of Neuperg... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Readers - 1843 - 524 pages
...broadsword bright Was brandishing like beam of light, Each targe was dark below ; And with the ocean's mighty swing, When heaving to the tempest's wing, They hurled them on the foe. I heard the lance's shivering crash, As when the whirlwind rends the ash ; I heard the broadsword's... | |
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Bearing before them in their course The relics of the archer force, Like wave with crest of sparkling foam, Right onward did Clan-Alpine come. Above the tide each broadsword bright Was brandishing like beam of light. Each targe was dark below ; And with... 
