 spoil Alike became their prey ; still the chief advanc'd, Look'd on the sun with hope ;— low, broad, and wan, While the fierce archer of the downward year Stains Italy's blanch'd barrier with storms. In vain each pass, ensanguin'd deep with dead, Or...  Dictionary of National Biography - Page 322edited by - 1899Full view - About this book
 | George Walter Thornbury - 1862 - 472 pages
...spoil, Alike became their prey; still the chief advanced, Looked on the sun with hope ; low, bruad and wan. While the fierce archer of the downward year,...Italy's blanch'd barrier with storms. In vain each pass, ensanguined deep with dead, Or rocky fragments, wide destruction rolPd. Still on Campania's fertile... | |
 | National gallery - 1869 - 208 pages
...victor and the captive,—Saguntum's spoil Alike became their prey; still the chief advanc'd, Looked on the sun with hope; low, broad and wan. While the...fierce archer of the downward year, Stains Italy's blanched barrier with storms. In vain each pass, ensanguined deep with dead, Or rocky fragments, wide... | |
 | William Cosmo Monkhouse - 1879 - 192 pages
...fraud—Salassian force Hung on the fainting rear ! then Plunder seiz"d The victor and the captive—Saguntum's spoil, Alike became their prey ; still the chief advanc'd,...thought But the loud breeze sob'd, Capua's joys beware." This is nearer to poetry than Turner ever got again. The picture is well-known, and was suggested partly... | |
 | William Cosmo Monkhouse - Painters - 1879 - 176 pages
...fraud—Salassian force Hung on the fainting rear! then Plunder seiz'd The victor and the captive—Saguntum's spoil, Alike became their prey; still the chief advanc'd, Look'd on the sun with hope;—low, broad, and wan. While the fierce archer of the downward year Stains Italy's blanch'd barrier... | |
 | William Cosmo Monkhouse - Painters - 1882 - 190 pages
...fraud—Salassian force Hung on the fainting rear ! then Plunder seiz'd The victor and the captive—Saguntum's spoil, Alike became their prey ; still the chief advanc'd,...thought But the loud breeze sob'd, Capua's joys beware." This is nearer to poetry than Turner ever got again. The picture is well-known, and was suggested partly... | |
 | Walter Thornbury - Artists - 1897 - 704 pages
...victor and the captive—Saguntum's spoil Alike became their prey. Still the chief advanced, Looked on the sun with hope ; low, broad, and wan. While...Italy's blanch'd barrier with storms. In vain each pass, ensanguined deep with dead, Or rocky fragments—wide destruction roll'd. Still on Campania's fertile... | |
 | William Lionel Wyllie - Artists - 1905 - 348 pages
...victor and the captive—Saguntum's spoil, Alike became their prey; still the chief advanced. Looked on the sun with hope; low, broad, and wan. While the...Italy's blanch'd barrier with storms. In vain each pass ensanguined deep with dead, Or rocky fragments, wide destruction roll'd, Still on Campania's fertile... | |
 | National Gallery (Great Britain) - Painting, British - 1906 - 194 pages
...victor and the captive,—Saguntum's spoil Alike became their prey ; still the chief advanc'd, Looked on the sun with hope ; low, broad and wan While the...fierce archer of the downward year, Stains Italy's blanched barrier with storms. In vain each pass, ensanguined deep with dead Or rocky fragments, wide... | |
 | Francis Downman - Painters - 1908 - 380 pages
...fraud—Salassian force, Hung on the fainting rear ! Then Plunder seiz'd The victor and the captive—Saguntum's spoil Alike became their prey ; still the chief advanc'd,...thought, But the loud breeze sob'd, " Capua's joys beware ! " There are Turnerian touches in the fifth and sixth lines of this dark utterance ; but never again... | |
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