But all Etruria's noblest Felt their hearts sink to see On the earth the bloody corpses, In the path the dauntless Three : And, from the ghastly entrance Where those bold Romans stood, All shrank, like boys who unaware, Ranging the woods to start a hare,... Cap and Gown Comedy: A Schoolmaster's Stories - Seite 264von Ascott Robert Hope Moncrieff - 1893 - 342 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1843 - 626 Seiten
...from the ghastly entrance Where those bold Romans stood, All shrank, like boys who unaware, Ringing the woods to start a hare, Come to the mouth of the...dark lair Where, growling low, a fierce old bear Lies amidst bones and blood. Was none who would be foremost To lead such dire attack ; But those behind... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 438 Seiten
...dauntless Three: And, from the ghastly entrance Where those bold Romans stood, All shrank, like boys who unaware, Ranging the woods to start a hare, Come to...dark lair Where, growling low, a fierce old bear Lies amidst bones and blood. 60. Vfas none who would be foremost To lead such dire attack; But those behind... | |
| 1843 - 648 Seiten
...dauntless Three : And, from the ghastly entrance Where those bold Romans stood. All shrank, like boys who unaware. Ranging the woods to start a hare. Come to...dark lair Where, growling low, a fierce old bear Lies amidst bones and blood." The recompense of Horatius is in excellent contrast with the " moving accidents... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 206 Seiten
...dauntless Three : And, from the ghastly entrance Where those bold Romans stood, All shrank, like boys who unaware, Ranging the woods to start a hare, Come to...dark lair Where, growling low, a fierce old bear Lies amidst bones and blood. 50. Was none who would be foremost To lead such dire attack ; But those behind... | |
| English poetry - 1844 - 108 Seiten
...from the ghastly entrance Where those bold Romans stood, All shrank, like boys who unaware, Banging the woods to start a hare, Come to the mouth of the...dark lair Where, growling low, a fierce old bear Lies amidst bones and blood. Was none who would be foremost To lead such dire attack ; But those behind... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 Seiten
...dauntless Three : And, from the ghastly entrance Where those bold Romans stood, All shrank, like boys who unaware, Ranging the woods to start a hare, Come to...dark lair Where, growling low, a fierce old bear Lies amidst bones and blood. Was none who could be foremost To lead such dire attack ; But those behind... | |
| Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 Seiten
...from the ghastly entrance, Where those bold Romans stood, All shrank, like boys who, unaware, Banging the woods to start a hare, Come to the mouth of the...lair, Where, growling low, a fierce old bear Lies amidst bones and blood. Was none who would be foremost To lead such dire attack ; But those behind... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 Seiten
...dauntless Three : And, from the ghastly entrance Where those bold Romans stood, All shrank, like boys who unaware, Ranging the woods to start a hare, Come to...dark lair Where, growling low, a fierce old bear Lies amidst bones and blood. Was none who could be foremost To lead such dire attack ; But those behind... | |
| Walter McLeod - 1850 - 170 Seiten
...from the ghastly entrance Where those bold Romans stood, All shrank, like boys who unaware, Banging the woods to start a hare, Come to the mouth of the...dark lair Where, growling low, a fierce old bear Lies amidst bones and blood. Was none who would be foremost To lead such dire attack; But those behind cried... | |
| Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 Seiten
...dauntless Three : And, from the ghastly entrance, Where those bold Romans stood, All shrank, like boys who unaware, Ranging the woods to start a hare, Come to...lair, Where, growling low, a fierce old bear Lies amidst bones and blood. Was none who would be foremost To lead such dire attack : But those behind... | |
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