| J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - Elocution - 1828 - 314 pages
...she sung — but, with a frown, Revenge impatient rose. He threw his blood-stain'd sword in thunder down And, with a withering look, The war-denouncing...so loud and dread, Were ne'er prophetic sounds so fall of wo ; And, ever and anon, he beat The doubling drum with furious heat: And though, sometimes,... | |
| William Brittainham Lacey - Elocution - 1828 - 308 pages
...rose. He threw his blood stain'd sword in thunder down ; And with a withering look, The war denouncing trumpet took, And blew a blast so loud and dread, Were ne'er prophetic sounds so full of woe 5 And ever and anon, he beat The doubling drum with furious heat : And though, sometimes, each dreary... | |
| Asia - 1828 - 848 pages
...threw his blood-stained sword in thunder down; And with a withering look, H iß pocket handkerchief he took, And blew a blast so loud and dread, Were ne'er prophetic sound so full of woe; And ever and anon he beat The witness box with furious heat : And though sometimes,... | |
| William Scott - Elocution - 1829 - 420 pages
...blood stain'd sword in thunder down ; And with a withering look, The war denouncing trumpet tot>k, And blew a blast so loud and dread, Were ne'er prophetic...dreary pause between, Dejected Pity at his side, Her soul subduing voice applied, Yet still Ire Ttept his wild unalter'd mien, [head. While each strain'd... | |
| Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 832 pages
...no credit ; or malicious, if he trows I deserve credit, and yet goes about to Hal it. Stittingfleet. And, with a withering look, The war-denouncing trumpet...dread, Were ne'er prophetic sounds so full of woe. Coliiiu. Nor deemed before his little day was done One blatt might chill him into misery. Byron. BLAST... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 414 pages
...Wan it Stillayfleet. And, with a withering look, The war-denouncing trumpet took, Aud blew a blott so loud and dread, Were ne'er prophetic sounds so full of woe. Coffin*. Nor deemed before his little Jay was done One bltut might chill him into misery. Byron. BLAST... | |
| English literature - 1829 - 430 pages
...were absent just then, taking a glass;—so Tom, stretching to the music, seized a drum-stick,— " And ever and anon he beat The doubling drum with furious heat." till he brought the entire orchestra (drummer and fiddler) back to a sense of their duty. Next came... | |
| University of Cambridge - Classical education - 1830 - 636 pages
...had she sung, but with a frown Revenge impatient rose : He threw bis blood-stain'd sword in thunder down ; And with a withering look The war-denouncing...each dreary pause between, Dejected Pity at his side Into Greek Prose. But when they made it a contest as well as a study, when they hung up wreaths and... | |
| William Collins, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, Sir Egerton Brydges, John Langhorne - English poetry - 1830 - 234 pages
...look, "'• The war-denouncing trumpet took, VARIATION. Ver. 30. What was thy delightful measure ? And blew a blast so loud and dread, ^ Were ne'er prophetic sounds so full of woe !' 45 And, ever and anon, he beat''1 The doubling drum, with furious heat ; •' And though sometimes,... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...Tim war-denouncing trumpet took. And blew ¡i blast so loud and dread, "Were.nc'er prophetic pounds k, the shady bower; The town and village, dome and farm, Each giv furlong heat ; And though sometimes, each dreary pause between, Dejected Pity at his side Her soul-subduing... | |
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