 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...; And whirling down, in fierce career, Battlement, and plank, and pier, Rush'd headlong to the sea. Alone stood brave Horatius, But constant still in...cried false Sextus, With a smile on his pale face. 1 The waters of the Tiber, from Perugia to the sea, are muddy and yellowish, a peculiarity which is... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...; And whirling down, in fierce career, Battlement, and plank, and pier, Rush'd headlong to the sea. Alone stood brave Horatius, But constant still in...Lars Porsena, " Now yield thee to our grace." Round turn'd he, as not deigning Those craven ranks to see ; Naught spake he to Lars Porsena, To Sextus naught... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English poetry - 1849 - 224 pages
...whirling down, in fierce career, Battlement, and plank, and pier, Rushed headlong to the sea. LVI I. Alone stood brave Horatius, But constant still in...Sextus, With a smile on his pale face. " Now yield thce," cried Lars Porsena, " Now yield thee to our grace." LVIII. Round turned he, as not deigning... | |
 | Walter McLeod - 1850 - 170 pages
...free; And whirling down, in fierce career, Battlement, and plank, and pier, Rush'd headlong to the sea. Alone stood brave Horatius, But constant still in...pale face, " Now yield thee," cried Lars Porsena, Round turn'd he, as not deigning Those craven ranks to see; Nought spake he to Lars Porsena, To Sextus... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - Elocution - 1851 - 570 pages
...; And whirling down, in fierce career, Battlement, and plank, and pier, Rushed headlong to the sea. Alone stood brave Horatius, But constant still in...before, And the broad flood behind. " Down with him I " cried false Sextus, With a smile on his pale face. " Now yield thee," cried Lars Porsena, " Now... | |
 | Robert William Browne - 1851 - 418 pages
...fall, Lartius and Herminius retreated across it. It fell with a mighty crash, and Horatius was alone. Alone stood brave Horatius, But constant still in...thousand foes before, And the broad flood behind. * * * # " Oh Tiber ! Father Tiber, To whom the Romans pray, A Roman's life a Roman's arms Take thou... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Rome - 1851 - 260 pages
...smile on his pale face. "Now yield thee," cried Lars Porsena, "Now yield thee to our grace." LVIII. Round turned he, as not deigning Those craven ranks to see; Nought spake he to Lnrs Porsena, To Sextus nought spake he; But he saw on Palatinus The white porch of his home; And he... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1851 - 1502 pages
...verb is sometimes suppressed, and is indicated by an adverb which seems to supply its place ; as, " ' Down with him !' cried false Sextus, with a smile on his pale face." See § 506. THE COLLOCATION OF ADVERDS. § 524. 1. They are placed before adjectives and participles,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1852 - 570 pages
...and bounded, rejoicing to be free, And battlement, and plank, and pier, whirled headlong to the sea. Alone stood brave Horatius, but constant still in...turned he, as not deigning those craven ranks to see ; Naught spake he to Lars Poi>*~na, to Sextus naught spake he ; But he saw on Palatinus the white porch... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 568 pages
...and bounded, rejoicing to be free, And battlement, and plank, and pier, whirled headlong to the sea. Alone stood brave Horatius, but constant still in...turned he, as not deigning those craven ranks to see ; Naught spake he to Lars Porsena, to Sextus naught spake he ; But he saw on Palatmus the white porch... | |
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Alone stood brave Horatius, But constant still in mind ; Thrice thirty thousand foes before, And the broad flood behind. " Down with him ! " cried false Sextus, With a smile on his pale face. "Now yield thee," cried Lars Porsena, 
