 How quick they wheel'd, and flying behind them shot Sharp sleet of arrowy showers against the face Of their pursuers, and overcame by flight; The field all iron cast a gleaming brown : Nor wanted clouds of foot, nor on each horn Cuirassiers all in steel...  The British Essayists - Strana 64úprava: - 1808Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Quintus Horatius Flaccus - 1846 - Počet stránok 452
...And Milton, Par. Reg. III. 322 : He saw them in their forms of battle ranged, How quick they wheeled, and, flying, behind them shot Sharp sleet of arrowy showers, against the lace Of their pursuers, and overcame by flight. li. Nee qiue nihil attinent ; understand ad se, " Nor... | |
 | John Milton - 1847 - Počet stránok 604
...Susiana, to Balsara's haven. He saw them in their forms of battle rang'd, How quick they wheel'd, & flying behind them shot Sharp sleet of arrowy showers against the face Of their pursuers, and overcame by flight ; 335 The field all iron cast a gleaming brown ; Nor wanted clouds of foot, nor... | |
 | Virgil, Thomas Keightley - 1847 - Počet stránok 524
...of the Parthian cavalry to fly, and as they went at full speed to shower arrows on their pursuers. " How quick they wheel'd, and flying behind them shot Sharp sleet of arrowy showers." Milton, PR iii. 323. — Et duo, etc. In the spirit of prophecy he sees the extreme West, as well as... | |
 | John Milton - 1848 - Počet stránok 420
...Adiabene, Media, and the south Of Susiana, to Balsara's haven. He saw them in their forms of battle ranged, How quick they wheel'd, and, flying, behind them shot...arrowy showers against the face Of their pursuers, and overcame by flight ; The field all iron cast a gleaming brown : Nor wanted clouds of foot, nor, on... | |
 | John Milton - 1850 - Počet stránok 500
...dark Iberian dales ; From Atropatia and the neighbouring plains Of Adiabene, Media, and the south aao Of Susiana, to Balsara's haven. He saw them in their...shot Sharp sleet of arrowy showers against the face 309 wedges, and half-moons] Virgil mentions the ' wedge ;' JEn. xii. 457, ' densi cuneis se quisque... | |
 | John Milton - 1850 - Počet stránok 570
...Atropatia, and the neighbVing plains Of Adiabene, Media, and the south Of Susiana, to Balsara's heaven. He saw them in their forms of battle rang'd, How quick...arrowy showers against the face Of their pursuers, and overcame by flight; The field, all iron, cast a gleaming brown; Nor wanted clouds of foot, nor on each... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1851 - Počet stránok 380
...strain, Weaving many a soldier's doom, Orkney's woe, and Randver's bane. Var. V. 5. Launces. MS. V. 3. " How quick they wheel'd, and, flying, behind them shot Sharp sleet of arrowy show'r." Par. Reg. iii. 324. Gray. Avianns has a similar expression : " Ausa pharetratis imbribus ista... | |
 | 1852 - Počet stránok 874
...From Atropatia and the neighboring plains Of Adiabene, Media, and the south Of Susiana, to Balsam's t speak, asks how he attained to human speech, and...of a certain tree in the garden he attained both t overcame by flight ; The field all iron cast a gleaming brown : Nor wanted clouds of foot, nor on each... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - Počet stránok 388
...Media, and the south sco Of Susiana, to Balsara's haven. He saw them in their forms of battel rang'tl, How quick they wheel'd, and flying behind them shot...arrowy showers against the face Of their pursuers, and overcame by flight ; its The field all iron cast a gleaming brown : Nor wanted clouds of foot, nor... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1852 - Počet stránok 708
...fight." Every one will remember the noble passage in ' Paradise Regained,' book iii. : — ' • He taw them in their forms of battle rang*d. How quick they...and flying behind them shot Sharp sleet of arrowy show'rs against the face Of their pursuers, and overcame by flight." The editors of Milton refer to... | |
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