 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1858 - 424 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 § 380. THE COLLOCATION OF ADVERBS. § 397. 1. They are placed before adjectives and participles,... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - Readers - 1860 - 450 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...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 Palatinus The white porch... | |
 | Henry George John Clements - 1860 - 176 pages
...himself stands there alone, cut off, on the opposite side, doomed it would seem to certain destruction. Alone stood brave Horatius, But constant still in...cried Lars Porsena, "Now yield thee to our grace." Bound turned he, as not deigning Those craven ranks to see; Nought spake he to Lars Porsena, To Sextus... | |
 | John Connery - Elocution - 1861 - 416 pages
...free, And whirling down, in fierce career, Battlement, and plank, and pier, Rushed headlong to the sea. Alone stood brave Horatius, But constant still in...cried Lars Porsena, " Now yield thee to our grace." Nought spake he to Lars Porsena, To Sextus nought spake he ; Hut he saw on Palatinus The white porch... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 360 pages
...And whirling down, in fierce career, Battlement, and plank, and pier, Rushed headlong to the sea. 57. 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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1862 - 564 pages
...and bounded, rejoicing to be free, And battlement, and plank, and pier, whirled headlong to thfl sen. Alone stood brave Horatius, but constant still in...him ! " cried false Sextus, with a smile on his pale facft " Now yield thee," cried Lars Porsena, " now yield thee to our greoe Round turned he, as not... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers - 1863 - 390 pages
...triumph rose from the walls of Rome, As to the highest turret-tops was splashed the yellow foain. 24. Alone stood brave Horatius, but constant still in...cried false Sextus, with a smile on his pale face " No w yield thee," cried Lars Porsena, " no w yield thee to our grace." 26. But he taw on Palathnu*... | |
 | John Mahelon Berry Sill - English language - 1863 - 240 pages
...constant 133 still in mind ; Thrice thirty thousand foes 1M before, And the broad flood behind. " Down135 with him !" cried false Sextus, With a smile on his...cried Lars Porsena, " Now yield thee to our grace." 58. Eound turned he, as ISS not deigning Those craven ranks to see.137 Naught 138 spake he to Lars... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1864 - 210 pages
...walls of Rome, As to the highest turret-tops Was splashed the yellow foam. "Alone stood brave Horatins, But constant still in mind ; Thrice thirty thousand...broad flood behind. • Down with him ! ' cried false Sextna, With a smile on his pale face. * Now yield thee,' cried Lars Porsena, ' Now yield thee to our... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - Children's poetry - 1864 - 482 pages
...one last champion, behind a rampart of dead enemies, remained till the destruction was complete. " Alone stood brave Horatius, But constant still in...thousand foes before And the broad flood behind." A dart had put out one eye, he was wounded in the thigh, and his work was done. He turned round, and—... | |
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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, 
