| 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 páginas
...to this perilous service, and their valiant resistance, are dashed off with great animation : — ' But all Etruria's noblest Felt their hearts sink to...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... | |
| 1843 - 862 páginas
...bad manner, and a bad specimen of that manner. " But all EtmriaV) noblest Felt their hearts shrink to see On the earth the bloody corpses. In the path...bold Romans stood, All shrank like boys who, unaware, (!) Hanging the woods to start a hare, (!!) Come to the mouth of the dark lair (!!!) We sincerely trust... | |
| English poetry - 1844 - 108 páginas
...[Several of the Tuscan chiefs try to force the passage, but are slain by Horaratius and his companions.] But all Etruria's noblest Felt their hearts sink to...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... | |
| Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 páginas
...John XVIII. The ruins of the magnificent bridge, built bv Augustus, is it-. great object of interest. But all Etruria's noblest Felt their hearts sink to...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... | |
| Walter McLeod - 1850 - 170 páginas
...[Several of the Tuscan chiefs try to force the passage, but arc slain >,» Horatius and his companions.] But all Etruria's noblest Felt their hearts sink to...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... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1852 - 568 páginas
...sayest, so let it be." And straight against that great array, forth went the dauntless Three. Soon all Etruria's noblest felt their hearts sink to see...the ghastly entrance, where those bold Romans stood, The bravest shrank like boys who rouse an old bear in the wood. But meanwhile axe and lever have manfully... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 páginas
...sayest, so let it be." And straight against that great array, forth went the dauntless Three. Soon all Etruria's noblest felt their hearts sink to see...the ghastly entrance, where those bold Romans stood, The bravest shrank like boys who rouse an old bear in the wood. But meanwhile axe and lever have manfully... | |
| 1854 - 576 páginas
...forth went the dauntless Three. Soon -all Etrurja'sViobl8OT!felt their hearts sink to see On theSyth the bloody corpses, in the path the dauntless Three....the ghastly entrance, where those bold Romans stood, The bravest shrank like boys who rouse an old bear in. the wood. But meanwhile axe and lever have manfully... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1854 - 240 páginas
...noblest Were round the fatal place. XLIX. But all Etruria's noblest Felt their hearts sink to see i On the earth the bloody corpses, In the path the dauntless Three : And, from the ghastly entrance Where these bold Romans stood, j All shrank, like boys who unaware, Ranging the woods to start a hare, Come... | |
| 1855 - 442 páginas
...by the coat, and missed the individual. We had been deceived by a name, and had missed the reality. All shrank like boys, who unaware, Ranging the woods to start a hare, Come to the month of a dark lair, Where growling low a fierce old bear Lies amid bones and blood. The lesson we... | |
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