 | Donald Grant Mitchell - English literature - 1897 - 322 pages
...reason of the sympathetic allusion to the woes of Poland : " Ah, bloodiest picture in the book of time 1 Sarmatia fell, unwept, without a crime ; Found not...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,... | |
 | Donald Grant Mitchell - English literature - 1897 - 320 pages
...allusion to the woes of Poland : " Ah, bloodiest picture in the book of time ! Sarmatia fell, un wept, without a crime ; Found not a generous friend, a pitying foe, Strength in her arms nor mercy in her woe 1 Dropped from her nerveless grasp the shattered spear, Closed her bright eye and curbed her high career,... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 442 pages
...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... | |
 | 1900 - 496 pages
...recall, in mournful consciousness of their application, the familiar words of immortal thought — "Oh, bloodiest picture in the book of Time, Sarmatia...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;... | |
 | James Lauren Ford, Mary K. Ford - Historical poetry - 1902 - 470 pages
...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!... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1902 - 192 pages
...From rank to rank your volleyed thunder flew — Oh, bloodiest picture in the book of Time, Sarrnatia fell, unwept, without a crime ; Found not a generous...pitying foe, Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her woe ! 220 Dropped from her nerveless grasp the shattered spear, Closed her bright eye, and curbed her high... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1904 - 316 pages
...watchword and reply ; 370 Then peal'd the notes, omnipotent to charm, And the loud tocsin toll'd their last alarm ! — In vain, alas ! in vain, ye gallant few...Closed her bright eye, and curb'd her high career ; — 380 HOPE, for a season, bade the world farewell, And Freedom shriek'd — as KOSCIUSKO fell !... | |
 | English poetry - 1904 - 562 pages
....*, .1 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 career;... | |
 | William T. Vlymen - Readers - 1904 - 520 pages
...tocsins 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 of...crime; Found not a generous friend, a pitying foe, pandours: Hungarian mountaineers serving in the Austrian army; so called from Pandur, a town in the... | |
 | Quotations - 1906 - 810 pages
...Bequeathed by bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft, is ever won, BYRON, The Giaour, lines 123-125 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... | |
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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... 
