 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - American literature - 1830 - 334 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 wo ! Dropped from her nerveless grasp the shattered spear, Closed her bright eye, and curbed her high... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Elocution - 1831 - 356 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 of...pitying foe, Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her wo! Dropped from her nerveless grasp the shattered spear, Closed her bright eye, and curbed the high... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 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 wo ! Dropped from her nerveless grasp the shattered spear, Closed her bright eye, and curbed her high... | |
 | James Hedderwick - Oratory - 1833 - 232 pages
...watchword and reply: 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!...pitying foe, Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her wo ! Dropp'd from her nerveless grasp the shatter' d spear, Closed her bright eye, and curb'd her high... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1833 - 312 pages
...their last alarm!— 4 (—) 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 wo! Dropped from her nerveless grasp the shattered spear, Closed her bright eye, and curbed her high... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1835 - 258 pages
...alarm ! — In vain, alas ! in vain, ye gallant few ! From rank to rank your volleyed thunder flew :_ Oh! bloodiest picture in the book of Time, Sarmatia...pitying foe, Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her wo ! Dropt from her nerveless grasp the shattered spear, Closed her bright eye, and curbed her high... | |
 | Moses Severance - American literature - 1835 - 314 pages
...their last alarm! — 4. In vp.in, alas ! in vain, ye gallant few ! From rank to rank your volley 'd thunder flew ; ,Oh bloodiest picture in the Book of...Sarmatia fell, unwept, without a crime, — Found not a gen'rous friend, a pity ing foe, Strength in. her arms, nor mercy in her wo ! Dropp'd from her nerveless... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1835 - 706 pages
...arC \Vll " Oh ! Woodiest picture in the book of Time : Sarmatia fell unwept, without a crime; 1794. 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 bright eye, and curb'd her high... | |
 | English poetry - 1836 - 514 pages
...death, — the watch-word and reply; Then peal'd the notes, omnipotent to charm, And the loud tocsin toll'd their lost alarm ! — In vain, alas! in vain,...flew : — Oh, bloodiest picture in the book of Time, Sarmatm fell, unwept, without a crime ; Found not a generous friend, a pitying foe, Strength in her... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Bookbinding - 1837 - 328 pages
...word and reply ; 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...pitying foe, Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her woe ! DroppVl from her nerveless grasp the shatter'd spear, Closed her bright eye, and curb'd her high... | |
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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... 
