 | John Charnock - 1801 - Počet stránok 956
...stiled by the more early of the French writers.) ' It came flying tlirough die air,' says Joinvaie, « like a winged long-tailed dragon, about the thickness of an hogshead, with the report of thtmdcr, and thevelocity of lightening, and the darkness of the night was dispelled by this deadly... | |
 | David Ramsay - 1819 - Počet stránok 386
...report of thunder and the velocity of lightning; and that the darkness of the night was dispelled by its deadly illumination. The use of the Greek, or as it...fire, was continued to the middle of the fourteenth century, when the scientific or casual discovery of gunpowder, effected a revolution in the art of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - Počet stránok 546
...flying through the air, says Joinville, like a winged long-tailed dragon, about the thickness of a hogshead, with the report of thunder, and the velocity...fire, was continued to the middle of the fourteenth century ; when the scientific, or casual, compound of nitre, sulphur, and charcoal, effected a new... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1832 - Počet stránok 364
..." like a winged dragon, about the thickness of a hogshead, with the report of thunder and the speed of lightning, and the darkness of the night was dispelled by this horrible illumination." Not only the bold Demetrius and his pupil Lascaris, but all the crowd whom... | |
 | 1832 - Počet stránok 650
..." like a winged dragon, about the thickness of a hogshead, with the report of thunder and the speed of lightning, and the darkness of the night was dispelled by this horrible illumination." ' Not only the bold Demetrius and his pupil Lascaris, but all the crowd whom... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1836 - Počet stránok 500
..." like a winged dragon, about the thickness of a hogshead, with the report of thunder and the speed of lightning, and the darkness of the night was dispelled by this horrible illumination." Not only the bold Demetrius and his pupil Lascaris, but all the crowd whom... | |
 | 1838 - Počet stránok 518
...flying through the air, like a winged long-tailed dragon, about the thickness of a hogshead, with a report of thunder and the velocity of lightning; and...night was dispelled by this deadly illumination.' The ue of Greek fire was continued to the middle of the 14th century, when the more efficient employment... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1847 - Počet stránok 606
..." like a winged dragon, about the thickness of a hogshead, with the report of thunder and the speed of lightning, and the darkness of the night was dispelled by this horrible illumination." Not only the bold Demetrius and his pupil Lascaris, but all the crowd whom... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1851 - Počet stránok 328
...like a winged, long-tailed dragon about the thickness of a hogshead, with the report of thunder and velocity of lightning ; and the darkness of the night was dispelled by this deadly illumination.' Some very learned authors are of opinion, that allusion is made to this composition in the legend which... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1851 - Počet stránok 484
..." like a winged dragon, about the thickness of a hogshead, with the report of thunder and the speed of lightning, and the darkness of the night was dispelled by this horrible illumination." Not only the bold Demetrius and his pupil Lascaris, but all the crowd whom... | |
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It came flying through the air, says Joinville,22 like a winged longtailed dragon, about the thickness of a hogshead, with the report of thunder and the velocity of lightning; and the darkness of the night was dispelled by this deadly illumination. 
