 | 1829 - 682 Seiten
...sacked his house and cellars, While others cut his head off. ' We there, in strife bewild'ring, Spik blood enough to swim in : We orphaned many children,...beasts supplied our feasts, And his overthrow, our chorus.—pp. 141 —143. ART. XV.—Visits to the Religious World. London : Seely and Burnside. 1829.... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1837 - 698 Seiten
...heroes and their cravens, Their lancers and their bowmen. As for Santa Anna, their blood-red chief, His head was borne before us ; His wine and beasts...supplied our feasts, And his overthrow our chorus." The foregoing extracts are all in a warlike strain. We will now give a few specimens of the softer... | |
 | 1842 - 536 Seiten
...a host and quelled it; We forced a strong position, And killed the men who held it. # '* * * * * " We brought away from battle, And much their land bemoaned...supplied our feasts, And his overthrow, our chorus." This fact may be illustrated by every page of the large folio volume of the " Welsh Laws" which has... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 444 Seiten
...spearmen and the bowmen. We brought away from battle — And much the hind bemoaned them — Three thousand head of cattle, And the head of him who owned...before us, His wine and beasts supplied our feasts ; His overthrow, our chorus. ANON. THE BRIDAL OF MALAHIDE. 395 LXXXVIII.— THE BRIDAL OF MALAHIDE.... | |
 | John Williamson Palmer - 1861 - 540 Seiten
...Some sacked his house and cellars, While others cut his head off. We there, in strife bewildering, Spilt blood enough to swim in : We orphaned many children,...before us ; His wine and beasts supplied our feasts, Plis overthrow our chorus. THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK. 435 MOTHER MARGERY. ON a bleak ridge, from whose granite... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1875 - 488 Seiten
...Some sacked his house and cellars, While others cut his head off. We there, in strife bewildering, Spilt blood enough to swim in : We orphaned many children,...supplied our feasts, And his overthrow, our chorus. As tho doughty followers of Mclvas, having sung themselves hoarse with their own praises, subsided one... | |
 | 1875 - 1012 Seiten
...expedition, We met a host and quelled it, We forced a strong position And killed the men who held it. " We brought away from battle (And much their land bemoaned...supplied our feasts, And his overthrow our chorus." (P. 149.) The two lengthier tales yet unnoticed arc " Melincourt " and " Gryll Grange." The former... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1875 - 633 Seiten
...their land bemoaned them, Two thousand head of cattle, And the head of him who owned them: Kdnyfcd, King of Dyfed, His head was borne before us ; His wine and beasts supplied our feasts, Aud his overthrow, our chorus.' From a serious point of view, the most interesting and curious section... | |
 | sir Francis Hastings C. Doyle (2nd bart.) - 1877 - 316 Seiten
...expedition, We met a host and quelled it, We stormed a strong position, And killed the men who held it. Ednyfed, King of Dyfed. His head was borne before us, His wine and beasts supply our feasts, And his overthrow our chorus. To return, however, to our immediate theme. One of... | |
 | Sir Francis Hastings Charles Doyle (bart.) - 1877 - 316 Seiten
...expedition, We met a host and quelled it, We stormed a strong position, And killed the men who held it. Ednyfed, King of Dyfed, His head was borne before us, His wine and beasts supply our feasts, And his overthrow our chorus. To return, however, to our immediate theme. One of... | |
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Spilt blood enough to swim in : We orphaned many children, And widowed many women. The eagles and the ravens We glutted with our foemen : The heroes and the cravens, The spearmen and the bowmen. ~ We brought away from battle, And much their land bemoaned... 
