 No sound of joy or sorrow Was heard from either bank, But friends and foes in dumb surprise, With parted lips and straining eyes, Stood gazing where he sank; And when above the surges They saw his crest appear, All Rome sent forth a rapturous cry, And...  Lays of ancient Rome - Seite 31von Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1884 - 252 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1843 - 626 Seiten
...straining eyes, Stood gazing where he sank ; And when above the surges They saw his crest appear, All Rome sent forth a rapturous cry, And even the ranks of Tuscany Could scarce forbear to cheer.' — pp. 6*7-72. The reward of Horatius is thus given; and, in our judgment, happily suggests the simplicity... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 Seiten
...straining eyes, Stood gazing where he sank; Ami when above the surges They saw his crest appear, All Rome sent forth a rapturous cry, And even the ranks of Tuscany Could scarce forbear to cheer. But fiercely ran the current, Swollen high by months of rain ; And fast his blood was flowing; And... | |
 | 1842 - 416 Seiten
...And e'en the ranks of Tuscany Could scarce forbear to cheer. But fiercely ran the current, Swoll'n high by months of rain : And fast his blood was flowing...in pain, And heavy with his armour, And spent with clanging blows : And oft they thought him sinking, But still aguin he rose. Never, I ween, did swimmer,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew - 1843 - 604 Seiten
...straining eyes, Stnnd gazing where he sunk ; And when above the surges They saw his crest appear, All Rome sent forth a rapturous cry , • And even the ranks of Tuscany Could scarce forbear to cheer. * * * * Never, I ween, did swimmer, In such an evil case, Struggle through such a raging flood Safe... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 438 Seiten
...straining eyes, Stood gazing where he sank; And when above the surges They saw his crest appear, All Rome sent forth a rapturous cry, And even the ranks of Tuscany Could scarce forbear to cheer. 61. But fiercely ran the current, Swollen high by months of rain: And fast his blood was flowing; And... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 108 Seiten
...straining eyes, Stood gazing where he sank ; And when above the surges They saw his crest appear, All Rome sent forth a rapturous cry, And even the ranks of Tuscany Could scarce forbear to cheer. But fiercely ran the current, Swollen high by months of rain : And fast his blood was flowing ; And... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 Seiten
...straining eyes, Stood gazing where he sank: And when above the surges They saw his crest appear, All Rome sent forth a rapturous cry, And even the ranks of Tuscany Could scarce forbear to cheer. But fiercely ran the current. Swollen high by months of rain : And fast his blood was flowing ; And... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 Seiten
...cry, And ev'n the ranks of Tuscany Could scarce forbear to cheer. But fiercely ran the current, Swoln high by months of rain ; And fast his blood was flowing, And he was sore in pain; 1 Lori — Etruscan for « mighty chief." And heavy with his armour, And spent with changing blows... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 Seiten
...straining eyes, Stood gazing where he sank : And when above the surges They saw his crest appear, All Rome sent forth a rapturous cry, And even the ranks of Tuscany Could scarce forbear to cheer. But fiercely ran the current, Swollen high by months of rain : And fast his blood was flowing ; And... | |
 | Walter McLeod - 1850 - 170 Seiten
...straining eyes, Stood gazing where he sank ; And when above the surges They saw his crest appear, All Rome sent forth a rapturous cry, And even the ranks of Tuscany Could scarce forbear to cheer. But fiercely ran the current, Swollen high by months of rain : And fast his blood was flowing ; And... | |
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