 Well I remember the day ! once saved my life in a skirmish; Here in front you can see the very dint of the bullet Fired point-blank at my heart by a Spanish arcabucero. Had it not been of sheer steel, the forgotten bones of Miles Standish Would at this...  Lectures on the English Language - Page 562by George Perkins Marsh - 1860 - 697 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 724 pages
...fought with in Flanders ; this breastplate, Well I remember the day ! once saved my life in a skirmish; Here in front you can see the very dint of the bullet Fired point-blank at my heart by a Spanish arcabucero. Had it not been of sheer steel, the forgotten... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1859 - 764 pages
...followed by two consonants for the last foot of a dactyl, — — — I — v wl — — I 1 — \jv/l " Here in front you can see the very dint of the bullet," would have seemed to him preposterous. His verse accordingly was characterised by a most painful appearance... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1862 - 548 pages
...with in Flanders ;:3 this breastplate, Well I remember the day ! once saved my life in a skirmish ; Here in front you can see the very dint of the bullet Fired point-blank at my heart by a Spanish arcabucero. Hail it not been of sheer-steal, the forgotten... | |
 | George Perkins Marsh - 1863 - 740 pages
...Old-Northern literature, * Among the verses prefixed to Sylvester's Du Bartas, 1611, there is npyramidal piece, with the heading, Lcctoribus, which concludes...such lines as the following : Here in front you can aee the very dint of the bullet ; Long at the window he stood and wistfully gazed on the /an&cape ;... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1863 - 484 pages
...fought with in Flanders ; this breastplate, Well I remember the day ! once saved my life in a skirmish ; Here in front you can see the very dint of the bullet Fired point-blank at my heart by a Spanish arcabucero. Had it not been of sheer steel, the forgotten... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 512 pages
...with in Flanders ] this breastplate, AVell I remember the day ! once saved my life in a skirmish ; Here in front you can see the very dint of the bullet Fired point-blank at my heart by a Spanish arcatmcoro. Had it not been of sheer steel, the forgotten... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 712 pages
...fought with in Flanders ; this breastplate, R Well I remember the day ! once saved my life in a skirmish Here in front you can see the very dint of the bullet Fired point-blank at my heart by a Spanish arcabuoero. Had it not been of shear-steel, the forgotten... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Poetry - 1866 - 300 pages
...fought with in Flanders ; this breastplate, Well I remember the day ! once saved my life in a skirmish ; Here in front you can see the very dint of the bullet Fired point-blank at my heart by a Spanish arcabucero. Had it not been of sheer steel, the forgotten... | |
 | George Perkins Marsh - English language - 1867 - 766 pages
...Lectoribus, which concludes with a couplet, con« taining a quaint half-rhyme. Not daring meddle with APELLES TABLE, This have I muddled, as my MVSE was able. I...can see the very dint of the bullet ; Long at the wiWow he stood and wistfully gazed on the /a»dscape ; Washed with a cold gray mist, the vapory breath... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1873 - 360 pages
...clean, as if for parade or inspection ! Well I remember the day ! once saved my life in a skirmish ; Here in front you can see the very dint of the bullet Fired point-blank at my heart by a Spanish arcabucero. Had it not been of sheer steel, the forgotten... | |
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