 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
 | John Milton - 1852 - Počet stránok 472
...saw them in thcir>forms of battle ranged, > . How quick they wheel'd, and, flying, behind them sin it 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - Počet stránok 376
...Of Susiana, to Balsara's haven. He saw them in their forms of battel rang'd, How quick they wheeFd, and flying behind them shot Sharp sleet of arrowy showers against the face Of their pursuers, and overcame by flight; as The field all iron cast a ^learning brown : !Nor wanted clouds of foot, nor... | |
 | John Milton - 1854 - Počet stránok 534
...Of Susiana, to Balsam's haven. 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 face Of their pursuers, and overcame by flight : 325 The field all iron cast a gleaming brown : Nor wanted clouds of foot, nor... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - Počet stránok 564
...Susiana, to Balsara's haven. lie saw them in their forms of battle ranged, How quick they wheeled, 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - Počet stránok 644
...Susiana, to Balsara's haven. 4 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 face Of their pursuers, and overcame by flight; The field all iron cast a gleaming brown : Nor wanted clouds of foot, nor on each... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - Počet stránok 620
...countrv. He saw them in their forms of hattle ranged, How quick they wheel'd, and flying hehind them^hot Sharp sleet of arrowy showers against the face Of their pursuers, and overcame hy flight; 323 The field all iron caat a gleaming hrown : Nor wanted clouds of foot, nor on... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - Počet stránok 900
...haven.« He saw them in their forms of battle ranged, How quick they wheel'd, and flying behind them ahot 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,J... | |
 | Henry Hegart Breen - 1857 - Počet stránok 336
...shower, Hurtles in the darken'd air." Which is adopted from this passage in " Paradise Regained :" — " How quick they wheel'd, and, flying, behind them shot Sharp sleet of arrowy shower." Next comes the line in " The Bard :" — " Give ample room and verge enough." Which is taken... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1858 - Počet stránok 412
...SHAKSPEARE'S striking passage with one no less poetical by MILTON, describing the Parthian horsemen— How quick they wheel'd, and flying behind them shot Sharp sleet of arrowy show'r against the face Of their pursuers. Milton, Par. Reg. b. 3, T. 323. In SHAKSPEARE'S passage... | |
 | John Milton, Thomas Keightley - 1859 - Počet stránok 518
...Susiana, to Balsara's haven. 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 face Of their pursuers, and overcame by flight ; The field all iron cast a gleaming brown. Nor wanted clouds of foot, nor, on each... | |
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