 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
 | 1865 - Počet stránok 786
...bound to bound. • • • . He saw them in their forms of battle ranged, How quick they whecl'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... | |
 | 1865 - Počet stránok 376
...strain, Weaving many a soldier's doom. Orkney's woe, and Randver's bane. Var. V. 5. Launoea. MS. V. 3. " How quick they wheel'd, and, flying, behind them shot Sharp sleet of arrowy show'r." Par. Reg. iii. 324. Gray. A vianus has a similar expression : " Ausa pharetratis tmbribus... | |
 | 1866 - Počet stránok 410
...dark Iberian dales ; From Atropatia and the neighbouring plains Of Adiabene, Media, and the south 320 Of Susiana, to Balsara's haven. He saw them in their...arrowy showers against the face Of their pursuers, and overcame by flight ; ass The field all iron cast a gleaming brown : Nor wanted clouds of foot, nor... | |
 | John Milton - 1866 - Počet stránok 394
...Adiabene, Media, and the south 210 Of Susiana, to Balsara's haven. He saw them in their forms of battel rang'd, How quick they wheel'd, and flying behind...arrowy showers against the face Of their pursuers, and overcame by flight ; au The field all iron cast a gleaming brown : Nor wanted clouds of foot, nor on... | |
 | John Milton - 1867 - Počet stránok 598
...Media, and the south Of Susiana, to Balsara's haven. 821 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 each... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - Počet stránok 1022
...flying fyht." Every one will remember the noble passage in ' Paradise Regained,' book iii.: — " He eaw show'rs against the face Of their pursuers, and overcame by flight." The editors of Milton refer to... | |
 | 1867 - Počet stránok 556
...haven. He saw them in their forms of battle ranged, How quick they wheeled, and, flying, behind the» 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, Edward Phillips - 1868 - Počet stránok 632
...Media, and the south Of Susiana, to Balsara's haven. '321 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 : N"or wanted clouds of foot, nor on... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - Počet stránok 352
...Atropatia and the neighbouring plains Of Adiabene, Media, and the south 320 Of Susiana to Balsara's hav'n. He saw them in their forms of battle rang'd, How quick...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 on... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1870 - Počet stránok 456
...brave; where they attended the banquet, and served the departed heroes with horns of mead and ale. t " How quick they wheel'd, and flying, behind them shot Sharp sleet of arrowy show'r." — Paradise Regained. t " The noise of battle hurtled in the air." Glitt'ring lances are... | |
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