 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...mound, Napoleon Stood on our storming day ; With neck out-thrust, you fancy how, Legs wide, arms lock'd behind, As if to balance the prone brow Oppressive with its mind. Just as perhaps he mused, " My plana That soar, to earth may fall Let once my army-leader Lunnes Waver at yonder wall ;" Out 'twiit... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...mound, Napoleon Stood on our storming day; With neck out-thrust, you fancy how, Legs wide, arms lock'd behind, As if to balance the prone brow Oppressive...rider, bound on bound Full-galloping ; nor bridle drew Until he reach'd the mound. Then off there flung in smiling joy, And held himself erect Just by his... | |
 | American poetry - 1849 - 274 pages
...Batisbon : A mile or so away On a little mound Napoleon Stood on our storming day; With neck out-thrust, you fancy how, Legs wide, arms locked behind, As if...soar, to earth may fall, Let once my army-leader, Lauue.-, Waver at yonder wall." Out 'twixt the battery-smokes there flew A rider, bound on bound Full-galloping... | |
 | Thomas Powell - Authors, English - 1849 - 328 pages
...Ratisbon,] A mile or so away, On a little mound Napoleon Stood, on our storming day ; With neck out thrust ; you fancy how, Legs wide, arms locked behind, As if...mused — ' my plans That soar to earth may fall, Let once'my army leader Lannes Waver at yonder wall !' Out "twixt the battery smokes there flew A rider,... | |
 | Thomas Powell - Authors, English - 1849 - 320 pages
...mile or so away, On a little mound Xapoiwm Stood, on our storming day ; With neck oat thrust ; yon fancy how, Legs wide, arms locked behind, As if to balance the prone brow, Opprewve with its mind. Just as, perhaps, he mused — ' my plans That soar to earth may fall, Let... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1850 - 436 pages
...Ratisbon : A mile or so away On a little mound, Napoleon Stood on our storming-day ; With neck out-thrust, you fancy how, Legs wide, arms locked behind, As if...to balance the prone brow Oppressive with its mind. ii Just as perhaps he mused " My plans " That soar, to earth may fall, " Let once my army-leader Lannes... | |
 | Thomas Powell - Authors, English - 1851 - 216 pages
...Ratisbon, A mile or so away, On a little mound Napoleon Stood, on our storming day ; With neck out thrust ; you fancy how, Legs wide, arms locked behind, As if...my plans That soar to earth may fall, Let once my army leader Lannes Waver at yonder wall,' Out 'twixt the battery smokes there flew A rider, bound on... | |
 | 1859 - 450 pages
...Ratisbon ;A mile or so away, On a little mound Napoleon Stood, on our storming day ; With neck out-thrust, you fancy how, Legs wide, arms locked behind, As if...rider, bound on bound Full-galloping ; nor bridle drew Until he reached the mound. Then off there flung in smiling joy, And held himself erect By just his... | |
 | Samuel Lucas - 1860 - 368 pages
...characteristic attitude of Napoleon : — " With neck outthrust, you see him now, Legs wide, arms lock'd behind, As if to balance the prone brow Oppressive with its mind." Such, in a sitting posture, is the notion suggested by Watt's figure. The ponderous brain seems to... | |
 | John Williamson Palmer - Folk songs - 1861 - 540 pages
...fancy how, Legs wide, arms locked behind: As if to balance the prone brow, Oppressive with its mind. n. Just as perhaps he mused " My plans, That soar, to...rider, bound on bound Full-galloping; nor bridle drew Until he reached the mound. HI. Then off there flung in smiling joy, And held himself erect By just... | |
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You know, we French stormed Ratisbon : A mile or so away On a little mound, Napoleon Stood on our storming-day ; With neck out-thrust, you fancy how, Legs wide, arms locked behind, As if to balance the prone brow Oppressive with its mind. Just as perhaps... 
