 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 - 1871 - Počet stránok 312
...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1871 - Počet stránok 530
...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 Addington Symonds - 1879 - Počet stránok 456
...that the alliteration is descriptive or picturesque, as in the lines about the Parthian bowmen — Flying behind them shot Sharp sleet of arrowy showers against the face Of their pursuers. — PR iii. 323. — (Compare PL, vi. 2n-213.) The descriptive pomp of the alliterative system is more... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - Počet stránok 536
...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 each... | |
 | Francis St. John Thackeray - 1880 - Počet stránok 488
...mountaineers on Mount Niphates, in Armenia. Cf. note on p. 339, 1. 17. L. 23. ßdentemque fuga, etc. * Flying behind them shot Sharp sleet of arrowy showers against the face Of their pursuers, and overcame by flight.' Milton, Par. Reg. iii. 323. Cf. p. 198, 1. 22. L. 25. bisque triumphatas, etc.,... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1880 - Počet stránok 404
...happens that the alliteration is descriptive or picturesque, as in the lines about the Parthian bowmen : Flying behind them shot Sharp sleet of arrowy showers against the face Of their pursuers.— PR, iii. 323. (Compare PL, vi. 211-213.) The descriptive pomp of the alliterative system is more remarkable... | |
 | Anthologia Latina - 1880 - Počet stránok 518
...Mount Niphates, in Armenia. Cf. note on p. 339, 1. 17. L. 23. fidentemqne fuga, etc. ' Flying hehind them shot Sharp sleet of arrowy showers against the face Of their pursuers, and overcame by flight.' Milton, Par. Reg. iii. 323. Cf. p. 198, 1. 22. L. 25. bisqne triumphatas, etc.,... | |
 | John Milton, Alexander Chalmers - 1881 - Počet stránok 760
...Adiabene, Media, and the south 310 Of Susiana, to Balsara's hayen. 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; The field all iron cast a gleaming brown: Nor wanted clouds of foot, nor on each... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1881 - Počet stránok 626
...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 each... | |
 | John Milton - 1881 - Počet stránok 590
...Of 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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