| Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - Europe - 1806 - 440 pages
...summit of Csesarean power , " With unexpected legions bursts away, " And sees defenceless realms accept his sway. " Short sway ! Fair Austria spreads her..." The Queen', the Beauty, sets the world in arms." It may indeed be accounted among the wonderful revolutions of the prefent age, that Maria Therefa mould... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 350 pages
...a floating host. The bold Bavarian, in a luckless hour, Tries the dread summits of Caesarean pow'r, With unexpected legions bursts away, And sees defenceless...realms receive his sway ; Short sway ! fair Austria spreadsher mournful charm*, The queen, the beauty, sets the world in arms; From hill to hill the beacon's... | |
| British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...a floating host. The bold Bavarian, in a luckless hour, Tries the dread summits of Caesarean pow'r, 'With unexpected legions bursts away, And sees defenceless...Austria spreads her mournful charms, The queen, the beanty, sets the world in arms; From hill to hill the beacons' rousing blaae Spreads wide the hope... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...a luckless hour, Tries the dread summits of Cwsarean pow'r, With unexpected legions bursts av.-ay, rthly L°ver lurking in hrr heart. Thcqnrcn, the beauty, sets the world in arms,From hill to hill the beacon's rousing blaze Spreads wide... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 648 pages
...a floating host. The bold Bavarian, in a luckless hour. Tries the dread summits of Ca>are»n potrV, With unexpected legions bursts away, And sees defenceless...receive his sway : Short sway ! fair Austria spreads her moarnfoi charms. The queen, the beauty, sets the world in aims ; From hill to hill the beacon's rousing... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - English fiction - 1811 - 250 pages
...a floating host. The bold Bavarian, in a luckless hour, Tries the dread summits of Caesarean pow'r, With unexpected legions bursts away, And sees defenceless...beauty, sets the world in arms ; From hill to hill the beacons' rousing blaze Spreads wide the hope of plunder and of praise ; The fierce Creation, and the... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 368 pages
...billows and a floating host. The bold Bavarian, in a luckless hour, Tries the dread summits of Caesarean power, With unexpected legions bursts away, And sees...defenceless realms receive his sway ; Short sway! fairAustriaspreadshermournful charms, The queen, the beauty, sets the world in arms ; From hill to... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 314 pages
...a floating host. The bold Bavarian, in a luckless hour, Tries the dread summits of Ca>sarean pow'r, With unexpected legions bursts away, And sees defenceless...receive his sway: Short sway! fair Austria spreads her muurnful charms, The queen, the beauty, sets the world in arms; From hill to hill the beacon's rousing... | |
| Minstrel - 1824 - 246 pages
...Bavarian, in a luckless hour, Tries the dread summits of Cxsarean pow'r, With unexpected legions hursts away. And sees defenceless realms receive his sway;...Austria spreads her mournful charms, The Queen, the heauty, sets the world in arms; From hill to hill the heacons rousing hlaze Spreads wide the hopes... | |
| Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia), Lucy Aikin - English literature - 1826 - 386 pages
...impresses both geography and history in a most agreeable manner upon those who are fond of it. Thus, " fair Austria spreads her mournful charms, The queen, the beauty, sets the world in arms." A short, lively character in verse is never forgotten : " From Macedonia's madman to the Swede." -Historic... | |
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