 | George Benjamin Woods - England - 1916 - 1604 pages
...the virtues had de- s Thaddeus Kosciusko : he was defeated and parted. taken prisoner, Oct. 10, 1794. last, And all my bonds aside were cast, These heavy...I felt as they were come 1 Ylllenenve. 380 To tear shatter 'd spear, 880 Closed her bright eye, and curb'd her higli career; — Hope, for a season, bade... | |
 | Edwin Lillie Miller - Authors, English - 1917 - 690 pages
...published in Edinburgh a poem called the " Pleasures of Hope," which contained this passage about Poland: " 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... | |
 | Herbert Charles O'Neill - English language - 1919 - 480 pages
...Mariners of England, &c. The Fall of Poland From The Pleasures of Hope " In vain, alas, ye gallant few I From rank to rank your volley'd thunder flew : —...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... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1921 - 506 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 of...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 - 1925 - 424 pages
...few ! Fram rank to rank your volleyed thunder flew : — 0, 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... | |
 | Dominic Barthel - Elocution - 1927 - 790 pages
...last 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 career.... | |
 | Daniel Ritchie - Convicts - 1854 - 298 pages
...correct thinking man. Nobly has the poet painted the sorrowful event in these magnificent lines : — " Oh, bloodiest picture in the book of time ! Sarmatia...pitying foe, Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her woe ; Hope for a season bade the world farewell, And freedom shrieked when Kosciusko fell." We consider... | |
 | Elliot H. Goodwin - History - 1965 - 776 pages
...defenceless population slaughtered, Warsaw surrendered. Thomas Campbell bewept the failure of the insurgents: Oh, bloodiest picture in the book of Time, Sarmatia...pitying foe, Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her woe! The reactions of Catherine in St Petersburg and Igelstrom, her plenipotentiary in the Polish capital,... | |
 | Iichirō Tokutomi, Hiroaki Matsuzawa, Nicholas Wickenden - Business & Economics - 1989 - 274 pages
...shed a tear for her. I cannot help but be moved by that poem by Campbell about the downfall of Poland: Oh, bloodiest picture in the book of Time, Sarmatia...mercy in her woe! Dropp'd from her nerveless grasp the shattered spear, Closed her bright eye, and curb'd her high career. 111 Reading the Jinno Shotoki (The... | |
 | L. M. Montgomery - Fiction - 1997 - 522 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 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... 
