...mown hay Gives it a sweet and wholesome odor. How awful is this gl om \ and hark \ From camp to camp The hum of either army stilly sounds. That the fix'd sentinels almost receive -The secret whisper of each other's watch \ Steed threatens s-.eed in high and boasting neighing*, Piercing the...

...powerfully, however, in the following description, has Shakspeare made this vulgar sound sublime ! From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night,...other's watch. Fire answers fire, and through their paly flame* Each battle sees the other's umber' d face ; Steed answers steed in high and boastful neighs...

...how soon their brags should be blown away." t Let us now hear Shakspeare's description : — " Cho. From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night,...The hum of either army stilly sounds, That the fix'd centinels almost receive The secret whispers of each other's watch : Fire answers fire ; and through...

...conjecture of a time, When creeping murmur, and the poring dark, Fills the wide vessel of the universe 6. From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night, The hum of either army stilly sounds 7, That the fix'd sentinels almost receive The secret whispers of each other's watch 8 : 6 Fills the...

...description of the poet on a similar occasion. The hum of either nmiy stilly sounds, Tlml the fis'd sentinels almost receive The secret whispers of each...watch : Fire answers fire; and through their paly " :—From camp to cmnp, flames « Each battle sees tne other's umber'd face : Steed threatens steed,...

...means no more than Jires in the respective quarters of the Roman army. STEEVENS. So, in Henry V. : " Fire answers fire : and through their paly flames " Each battle sees the other's umberd face." MALONE. 8 The CERTAINTY of this hard life ;] That is, the certain consequence of this hard life. MALONE....

...fire, he's yours for ever." BoSWBLL. ACT IV. Enter CHORUS. CHOR. Now entertain conjecture of a time, When creeping murmur, and the poring dark, Fills the wide vessel of the universe 6. From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night, The hum of either army stilly sounds 7, That...

...interest and to animate his reader. How does he paint the hour of preparation — that awful moment when ' through the foul womb of night The hum of either army stilly sounds'? ' It was not in the practice of the Persians, as of the Greeks, to fortify their camps ; and their...

...interest and to animate his reader. How does he paint the hour of preparation — that awful moment when ' through the foul womb of night The hum of either army stilly sounds'? ' It was not in the practice of the Persians, as of the Greeks, to foi> tify their camps ; and their...

...exemplified in the ireirtm Kvnairat *tt[pi$fut ycAttruM of ^Eschylus* ; the lines of Shakspeare, • Now— creeping murmur, and the poring dark, Fills the wide vessel of the universe — " Chorus to Henry V. Act IV. these of Milton, " The sounds and seas, with all their finny drove,...