 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1808 - 710 pages
...They close in cloud* of smoke and dust, With •word-sway.and with lance's thrust; And such a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous birth, As if men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air. Longlmikcdthcanxioussejuircs; their eye Could in the darkness nought descry. At length the freshening... | |
 | Walter Scott - Flodden, Battle of, England, 1513 - 1808 - 526 pages
...They close, in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway, and with lance's thrust ; And such a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous birth, As if men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air. Long looked the anxious squires ; their eye Could in the darkness nought descry. XXVII. At length the... | |
 | 1808 - 732 pages
...clouds of fmoke and duft, With fword-fway and with lance's thruft, And fuch a yell was there, Of fudden and portentous birth, As if men fought upon the earth And fiends in upper air. • , Long looked the anxious fquires, their eye Could in the darknefs nought defcry. "At length the... | |
 | Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1809 - 494 pages
...They close in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway, and with lance's thrust ; And such a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous birth, As if men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air. Long looked the anxious squires ; their eye Could in the darkness nought descry. At length the freshening... | |
 | 1809 - 914 pages
...They close in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway, and with lance's thrust ; And such a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous birth, As if men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air. Ixing looked the anxious squires; their cy Could in the darkness nought descry. At length the freshening... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1810 - 320 pages
...They close, in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway, and with lance's thrust ; And such a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous birth, As if men...and rally, charge and rout, And triumph and despair. Long looked the anxious squires ; their eye Could in the darkness nought descry. XXVI. At length the... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 536 pages
...They close, in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway, and with lance's thrust ; And such a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous birth, As if men...and rally, charge and rout, And triumph and despair. Long looked the anxious squires ; their eye Could in the darkness nought descry. XXVI. At length the... | |
 | William Tennant - 1814 - 274 pages
...and drone was there,* As if on earth men pip'd, and devils dron'd in air, * Such a yell was there, As if men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air. SCOTT'S Jtfff •••"•'•"'• XXVI. Thus did the crowd with fiddle, lungs and drone, Congratulate... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1818 - 372 pages
...With sword-sway, and with lance's thrust ; And such a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous hirth, As if men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air. Long looked the anxious squires ; their eye Could in the darkness nought descry. XXVI. At length the... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 306 pages
...mountain-throne They close, in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway, and with lances thrust; And such a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous birth, As if men...and rally, charge and rout, And triumph and despair. Long look'd the anxious squires ; their eye Could in the darkness nought descry. XXVI. At length the... | |
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King James did rushing come. Scarce could they hear, or see their foes, Until at weapon-point they close. They close in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway and with lance's thrust; And such a yell was there Of sudden and portentous birth, As if... 
