 | Joseph Addison - 1765 - 378 pagina’s
...When her proud foe rang'd on their borders flands. But O, my Mufe, what numbers wilt thou find To ling the furious troops in battle join'd ! Methinks I hear the drum's tumultuous found The victor's fhouts and dying groans confound, The dreadful burft of cannon rend the ikies, And... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1787 - 482 pagina’s
...to defcribe the battle of LE c T. Blenheim. But O ! my Miife ! what numbers wilt thou find To fing the furious troops in battle join'd ? Methinks, I hear the drum's tumultuous found, The vidtor's fhouts, and dying groans, confound ; &c, Introductions of this kind, are a forced... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 966 pagina’s
...When herproudfoerang'don theirbordcrs (lands. But oh, my Mufe, what numbers wilt thou find To (ing the furious troops in battle join'd ! Methinks I hear the drum's tumultuous found The viftors (bouts and dying groans confound, The dreadful burft of cannon rend the Ikies, And... | |
 | 1803 - 268 pagina’s
...wilt thou find, To fing the furious troops in battle join'd ? Methinks I hear the drum's tumult' out sound, The victor's shouts, and dying groans confound,...rend the skies, And all the thunder of the battle rife." ADDISON. Adjectives may be known by putting the word thing after them, with which they make... | |
 | 1902 - 642 pagina’s
...worth quoting, as a type of the best poetry in this kind. The battle of Blenheim has begun : ' But oh 1 my Muse, what numbers wilt thou find To sing the furious troops in battle joined ? Methinks I hear the drum's tumultuous sound The victors' shouts and dying groans confound... | |
 | 1806 - 408 pagina’s
...the skies, She drew an angel down. 123 DESCRIPTION of a BATTLE, ILLUSTKATED 6Y A SUBLIME (ADDISON.) BUT O, my Muse ! what numbers wilt thou find To sing...furious troops in battle join'd ! Methinks I hear the drums tumultuous sound The victors' shouts and dying groans confound, The dreadful burst of cannon... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1807 - 786 pagina’s
...Blenheim : But O, my Muse ! what numbers wilt thou find To sing1 tlic furious troops in battle lo'm'cl Î Methinks, I hear the drum's tumultuous sound, The victor's shouts, and dying groana confound. What man, ao mad, so ignorant of the ruks of Longinus, Aristotle, and all the schoolmen,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 612 pagina’s
...Nor fens nor floods ran stop Britannia's bands, When her proud foe rang'd on their borders stands. But O, my Muse, what numbers wilt thou find To sing...furious troops in battle join'd ! Methinks I hear the drums tumultuous sound The victors' shouts and dying groans confound, The dreadful burst of rannon... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1815 - 582 pagina’s
...But ! O my mus.- ! what numbers wilt thou find To smff the furious troops in battle join'd! McUiinks, I hear the drum's tumultuous sound, The victor's shouts, and dying groans, confound ; Sec. Introductions of this kind, are a forced attempt in a writer, to spur up himself, and his reader,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1819 - 550 pagina’s
...his Campaign, has fallen into an error of this kind, when about to describe the battle of Blenheim : But O ! my Muse, what numbers wilt thou find To sing...furious troops in battle join'd? Methinks, I hear the drums tumultuous sound, The victor's shouts, and dying groans confound ; &c. Introductions of this... | |
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But O, my muse ! what numbers wilt thou find To sing the furious troops in battle join'd ? Methinks I hear the drum's tumultuous sound, The victor's shouts and dying groans confound ; The dreadful burst of cannon rend the skies, And all the thunders of... 
