 A thousand spurs are striking deep, a thousand spears in rest, A thousand knights are pressing close behind the snow-white crest ; And in they burst, and on they rushed, while, like a guiding star, Amidst the thickest carnage blazed the helmet of Navarre.  Macaulay's Essays on Milton and Addison - Page 3by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1893 - 190 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English fiction - 1824 - 488 pages
...golden lilies, — upon them with the lance. A thousand spurs are striking deep, a thousand spears in rest, A thousand knights are pressing close behind...D'Aumale hath cried for quarter. The Flemish count is slain. Their ranks are breaking like thin clouds before a Biscay gale ; The field is heaped with... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1828 - 430 pages
...golden lilies now, — upon them with the lance ! A thousand spurs are striking deep, a thousand spears in rest, A thousand knights are pressing close behind...D'Aumale hath cried for quarter. The Flemish Count is slain. Their ranks are breaking like thin clouds before a Biscay gale ; The field is heaped with... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1828 - 498 pages
...golden lilies now, — upon them with the lance ! A thousand spurs are striking deep, a thousand spears in rest, A thousand knights are pressing close behind...D'Aumale hath cried for quarter. The Flemish Count is slain. Their ranks are breaking like thin clouds before a Biscay gale ; The field is heaped with... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1828 - 426 pages
...golden lilies now, — upon them with the lance! A thousand spurs are striking deep, a thousand spears in rest, A thousand knights are pressing close behind...D'Aumale hath cried for quarter. The Flemish Count is slain. Their ranks are breaking like thin clouds before a Biscay gale ; The field is heaped with... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1828 - 422 pages
...golden lilies now, — upon them with the lance ! A thousand spurs are striking deep, a thousand spears in rest, A thousand knights are pressing close behind...of .Navarre. Now, God be praised, the day is ours ! Mayeune hath turned his rein. D'Aumale hath cried for quarter. The Flemish Count is slain. Their... | |
 | 1828 - 602 pages
...golden lilies now, — upon them with the lance. A thousand spurs are striking deep, a thousand spears in rest, A thousand knights are pressing close behind...snow-white crest ; And in they burst, and on they rush'd, while, like a guiding star, Amidst the thickest carnage blaz'd the helmet of Navarre. ' Now,... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...the golden lilies,— upon them with the lance. A thousand spurs are striking deep, a thousand spears in rest, A thousand knights are pressing close behind...snow-white crest ; And in they burst, and on they rush'd, while, like a guiding star, Amidst the thickest carnage blaz'd the helmet of Navarre. Now,... | |
 | Lyre - English poetry - 1830 - 396 pages
...golden lilies now, — upon them with the lance ! A thousand spurs are striking deep, a thousand spears in rest, A thousand knights are pressing close behind...snow-white crest ; And in they burst, and on they rush'd, while, like a guiding star, Amidst the thickest carnage blazed the helmet of Navarre. Now,... | |
 | James Melville M'Culloch - 1831 - 250 pages
...golden lilies, — upon them with the lance. A thousand spurs are striking deep, a thousand spears in rest, A thousand knights are pressing close behind...D'Aumale hath cried for quarter. The Flemish Count is slain. Their ranks are breaking like thin clouds before a Biscay gale ; The field is heaped with... | |
 | Scottish periodicals - 1832 - 952 pages
...deep, a thousand spcare in rest, Л thousand knights are pressing close behind the snow-white cresjt ¡ And in they burst, and on they rushed, while, like a guiding star. Amidst the thickest carnage biased the helmet of Navarre. Now, God be praised, the day is ours. Mayenne hath turned his rein. D'Aumale... | |
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