 | Walter Scott - 1866 - 792 pagina’s
...— By many a death-bed I have been, And many a sinner's parting seen, But never aught like this. — The war, that for a space did fail, Now trebly thundering...fired his glazing eye : With dying hand, above his hend He shook the fragment of his blade, And shouted "Victory I — Charge, Chester, charge ! On, Stanley,... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1866 - 412 pagina’s
...king. * * * A yet more stirring passage is that of the death-scene of the hero, which closes thus : — The war, that for a space did fail, Now, trebly thundering,...the cry : A light on Marmion's visage spread, And fixed his glazing eye : With dying hand, above his head He shook the fragment of his blade, And shouted... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1866 - 1204 pagina’s
...:— A light on Marmion's visage sprnJ. And fired his glazing eve : With dying hand, above his bead, He shook the fragment of his blade. And shouted " Victory ! — Charge, Chester, charge ! On, on !" Were the last words of Mannion. XXXIII. By this, though deep the evening fr2 Still rose the battle's... | |
 | Standard poetry book - 1866 - 300 pagina’s
...bliss!— By many a death-bed I have been, And many a sinner's parting seen, But never aught like this." The war, that for a space did fail, Now trebly thundering, swelled the gale, And—STANLEY ! was the cry: A light on Marmion's visage spread, And fired his glazing eye: With dying... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1867 - 298 pagina’s
...wounded Lord Marmion " Started from the ground As light as if he felt no wound ; " and again, when " With dying hand above his head, He shook the fragment of his blade, And shouted VICTOBT." Nor is it in the delivery of poetry alone that the differing effects of good and bad reading... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - 398 pagina’s
...lîy many a death-bed I have been, And manv a sinner's parting seen, lint never aught like this. — The war. that for a space did fail, .Now trebly thundering swelled the ffalc, And— STANLEY! was the cry;— A light on Marmion's visage spread, And llrcd his glazing eye... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1869 - 244 pagina’s
...And many a sinner's parting seen, But never aught like this." The war, that for a space did fail, 20 Now trebly thundering swelled the gale, And — STANLEY!...his glazing eye : With dying hand, above his head 25 He shook the fragment of his blade, And shouted " Victory ! — " Charge, Chester, charge ! On,... | |
 | Alfred Holbrook - 1869 - 466 pagina’s
...the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel — thou. The war that for a space did fail, Now trebly thundering,...swelled the gale, And — Stanley — was the cry. I know there is not a man here, — who would not rather see a general conflagration — sweep over... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 pagina’s
...seen, But never aught like this." — The war, that for a space did fail, Now trebly thundering swell'd the gale, And— STANLEY ! — was the cry; — A light on Marmion's visage spread, And fir'd his glazing eye : With dying hand, above his head, He shook the fragment of his blade, And shouted... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1869 - 438 pagina’s
...many a death-bed I have been, " And many a sinner's parting seen, " But never aught like this.'5 Tiie war, that for a space did fail, Now trebly thundering swelled the galo, And — Stanley ! was the cry} A light on Mansion's visage spread, And fired his glazing eye... | |
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The war, that for a space did fail, Now trebly thundering swelled the gale, And— STANLEY ! was the cry. A light on Marmion's visage spread, And fired his glazing eye ; With dying hand, above his head He shook the fragment of his blade, And shouted '... 
