But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery. By torch and trumpet fast arrayed, Each horseman drew his battle blade, And furious every charger neighed, To join the dreadful... The New sporting magazine - Side 3891851Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
| 1883 - 614 sider
...neck and dark brown hair, As stooped her gentle head in meek devotion there.' — SCOTT. . . . . ' Fast arrayed Each horseman drew his battle blade,...every charger neighed, To join the dreadful revelry.' — CAMPBELL. RAYMOND DESLYH, after leaving the castle, had found quarters in a farm house at the southern... | |
| William Moffatt (publisher) - 1883 - 182 sider
...Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery. By torch and trumpet fast arrayed,3 Each horseman drew his battle blade, And furious every charger neighed To join the dreadful revelry. Then shook the hills with thunder riven,4 Then rushed the steed to battle driven, And louder than the... | |
| Edwin O. Chapman - 1884 - 430 sider
...When the drum beat, at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery. By torch and trumpet fast arrayed, Each horseman drew...every charger neighed, To join the dreadful revelry. Then shook the hills with thunder riven. Then rushed the steed to battle driven, And louder than the... | |
| Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1884 - 266 sider
...the drum beat at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery. 3. By torch and trumpet fast arrayed, Each horseman drew...every charger neighed To join the dreadful revelry. 4. Then shook the hills with thunder riven, Then rushed the steed to battle driven, And louder than... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1884 - 654 sider
...When the drum beat at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery. By torch and trumpet fast arrayed, Each horseman drew...every charger neighed, To join the dreadful revelry. Then shook the hills with thunder riven, Then rushed the steed to battle driven, And louder than the... | |
| Thomas Young Crowell - 1885 - 702 sider
...When the drum beat at dead of night, Commanding lires of death to light The darkness of her scenery. By torch and trumpet fast arrayed, Each horseman drew...every charger neighed To join the dreadful revelry. Then shook the hills, with tbunder riven; Then rushed the steed, to battle driven; And louder than... | |
| Collins William sons and co, ltd - 1885 - 316 sider
...night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery. 3. By torch and trumpet-sound arrayed, Each horseman drew his battle blade ; And...every charger neighed, To join the dreadful revelry. 4. Then shook the hills with thunder riven, Then rushed the steed to battle driven ; And volleying... | |
| Improved illustrated reader - 1885 - 266 sider
...night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery. 3. By torch and trumpet-sound arrayed, Each horseman drew his battle blade ; And...every charger neighed, To join the dreadful revelry. 4. Then shook the hills with thunder riven. Then rushed the steed to battle driven ; And volleying... | |
| Alexander Melville Bell - 1887 - 276 sider
...the idea or action they illustrate. Thus in the following lines : — " By torch and trumpet-sound arrayed. Each horseman drew his battle blade, And...every charger neighed To join the dreadful revelry ;" the idea "arrayed" should be illustrated by a slow, horizontal expansion of the arm, the hand flat... | |
| Shiukichi Shigemi - 1889 - 508 sider
...When the drum beat, at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery. By torch and trumpet fast arrayed, Each horseman drew...every charger neighed, To join the dreadful revelry. Then shook the hills, with thunder riven ; Then rush'd the steed, to battle driven ; And, louder than... | |
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