 | George W. R. Pigott - 1877 - 272 pages
...fall of Jerusalem. The poet, says Alison, has celebrated these events in the immortal lines : — " Oh bloodiest picture in the book of time ! Sarmatia...pitying foe, Strength in her arms nor mercy in her woe. Dropped from her nerveless grasp the shattered spear, Closed her bright eye and curb.d her high career:... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1867 - 498 pages
...last alarm. 4. In vain, alas! in vain, yo gallant few! From rank to rank, your volleyed thunder flew I Oh, bloodiest picture in the book of time, Sarmatia...pitying foe, Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her woe! Dropped from her nerveless grasp the shattered spear, Closed her bright eye, and curbed her high career;... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 630 pages
...— In vain, alas ! in vain, ye gallant few! From rank to rank your volleyed thunder flew : — 0, bloodiest picture in the book of Time ! Sarmatia fell,...pitying foe, Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her woe ! Dropped from her nerveless grasp the shattered spear, Closed her bright eye, and curbed her high... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Publishers - 1879 - 448 pages
...rank to rank your volleyed thunder flew : — Oh, bloodiest picture in the book of Time ! Poor Poland fell, unwept, without a crime ! Found not a generous...pitying foe, Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her woe ! Dropped from her nerveless grasp the shattered spear,, Closed her bright age, and curbed her high... | |
 | English poetry - 1878 - 618 pages
...alarm ! In vain, alas ! in vain, ye gallant few ! From rank to rank your volleyed thunder flew: O, bloodiest picture in the book of Time, Sarmatia fell,...pitying foe, Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her woe ! Dropped from her nerveless grasp the shattered spear, Closed her bright eye, and curbed her high... | |
 | George Lansing Raymond - Elocution - 1879 - 358 pages
...tocsin tolled their last alarm! In vain, alas! in vain, ye gallant few! From rank to rank your volleyed thunder flew; — Oh, bloodiest picture in the book...pitying foe, Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her woe! Dropped from her nerveless grasp the shattered spear, Closed her bright eye, and curbed her high career.... | |
 | George Lansing Raymond - Elocution - 1879 - 350 pages
...tocsin tolled their last alarm ! In vain, alas! in vain, ye gallant few! From rank to rank your volleyed thunder flew; — Oh, bloodiest picture in the book...pitying foe, Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her woe! Dropped from her nerveless grasp the shattered spear, Closed her bright eye, and curbed her high career.... | |
 | G. W. Royston-Pigott, W. R. - Militarism - 1879 - 278 pages
...Jerusalem. The poet, says Alison, has celebrated these events in the immortal lines : — "Oh Moodiest picture in the book of time! Sarmatia fell unwept,...a generous friend, a pitying foe, Strength in her arras nor mercy in her woe. Dropped from her nerveless grasp the shattered spear, Closed her bright... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1880 - 514 pages
...toll'd their last alarm ! — In vain, alas ! in vain, ye gallant few ! From rank to rank your volley 'd thunder flew : — Oh, bloodiest picture in the book...in her woe ! Dropp'd from her nerveless grasp the shattered spear, Closed her bright eye, and curb'd her high career; — HOPE, for a season, bade the... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...tocsin tolled their last In vain, alas ! in vain, ye gallant few ! From rank to rank your volleyed thunder flew : — Oh, bloodiest picture in the book...pitying foe, Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her woe ! Dropped from her nerveless grasp the shattered spear, [career ; — Closed her bright eye, and curbed... | |
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Oh ! bloodiest picture in the book of time, Sarmatia fell — unwept— without a crime ! Found not a generous friend — a pitying foe — Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her woe ! Dropped from her nerveless grasp the shattered spear— Closed her... 
