 | Frank Honywell Fenno - Elocution - 1878 - 422 pages
...faint light gleams, A light that seems To grow and grow till Nature teems With mellow haze. 7. (^=;) But, lo! he is nearing his heart's desire; He is snuffing...roaring fray, With Sheridan only five miles away. 8. (;=— ) The loud wind dwindled to a whisper low. " Ho ! a sail ! Ho ! a sail !" cried the man at... | |
 | Frank Honywell Fenno - 1878 - 426 pages
...faint light gleams, A light that seems To grow and grow till Nature teems With mellow haze. 7. (—=:) But, lo! he is nearing his heart's desire; He is snuffing...roaring fray, With Sheridan only five miles away. 8. (:=>-) The loud wind dwindled to a whisper low. " Ho ! a sail ! Ho ! a sail !" cried the man at... | |
 | David Charles Bell - Elocution - 1879 - 556 pages
...Sheridan only ten miles away ! Under his spurning feet, the road like an arrowy Alpine river flowed; ind the landscape sped away behind, like an ocean flying...steed, like a bark fed with furnace ire, swept on, with hU wild oye full of fire. But, lo ! he is Hearing his heart's desire ; he Is snuffing the smoke of... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - English poetry - 1879 - 294 pages
...strained to full play, With Sheridan only ten miles away. Under his spurning feet the road Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed, And the landscape sped away behind...wind, And the steed, like a bark fed with furnace fire, Swept on, with his wild eye full of ire. But lo! he is ncaring his heart's desire; He is snuffing... | |
 | Joseph Wadsworth Keene - Elocution - 1879 - 256 pages
...ye love, fair gentlemen of France, Charge for the golden lilies now, — upon them with the lance ! But lo ! he is nearing his heart's desire — He is...roaring fray, With Sheridan only five miles away. DIMINUENDO. The loud wind dwindled to a whisper low, And sighed for pity as it answered, " No." The... | |
 | 1879 - 80 pages
...to full Play, With Sheridan only ten 1 miles away ! Under his spurring feet, the road Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed ; And the landscape sped away behind Like an ocean flying 2 before the wind ! And the3 steed, like a bark fed with furnace ire, Swept on, with his wild eyes... | |
 | Allen Ayrault Griffith - Elocution - 1879 - 348 pages
...to full play, With Sheridan only ten miles away ! Under his spurning feet, the road Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed ; And the landscape sped away...the roaring fray. With Sheridan only five miles away ! IO. Read this example in slow time, then quick, then very quick. How does the water come down at... | |
 | Willard W. Glazier - Mexican War, 1846-1848 - 1880 - 474 pages
...to full play, With Sheridan only ten miles away. " Under his spuming feet, the road Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed, And the landscape sped away behind,...bark fed with furnace ire, Swept on with his wild eye full of fire. But lo ! he is nearing his heart's desire, He is snuffing the smoke of the roaring... | |
 | Evan Rowland Jones - United States - 1881 - 272 pages
...strained to full play, With Sheridan only ten miles away. Under his spurning feet the road Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed ; And the landscape sped away...bark fed with furnace ire, Swept on, with his wild eye full of fire. But lo ! he is nearing his heart's desire ; He is snuffing the smoke of the roaring... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...Sheridan only ten miles away. Under his spurning feet, the road Like an arrowy Alpine river flow'd e Are seen at the hour of midnight damp To cross the...white canoe ! •l'ii' m л- Moon. i. л»/ POEMS OF eye full of fire. But, lo! he is nearing his heart's desire ; He is snuffing the smoke of the roaring... | |
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Under his spurning feet the road Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed, And the landscape sped away behind Like an ocean flying before the wind, And the steed, like a bark fed with furnace ire, Swept on, with his wild eye full of fire. 
