 And, like a bold knight -errant, did proclaim Combat to all, and bore away the dame ; And taught the woods to echo to the stream His dreadful challenge and his clashing beam '. Yet faintly now declines the fatal strife, So much his love was dearer than...  Poems and Translations: With the Sophy, a Tragedy - Seite 17von Sir John Denham - 1709 - 330 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 822 Seiten
...of knight and bear. Took heart again and faced about, As if they meant to stand it out. Hudibras. He faintly now declines the fatal strife ; So much his love was dearer than his life. Denham. In intemperate climates, the spirits, exhaled by heat or cmnprat by cold, are rendered faint... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 844 Seiten
...away the dame, And taught the woods to echo to the stream His dreadful challenge, and his clashing beam ; Yet faintly now declines the fatal strife,...his life. Now ev'ry leaf, and ev'ry moving breath Presents a foe, and ev'ry foe a death. Wearied, forsaken, and pursued, at last AH safety in despair... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1844 - 846 Seiten
...away the dame, And taught the woods to echo to the stream H is dreadful challenge, and his clashing beam ; Yet faintly now declines the fatal strife,...love was dearer than his life. Now ev'ry leaf, and cv'ry moving breath Presents a foe, and ev'ry foe a death. Wearied, forsaken, and pursued, at last... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 Seiten
...helping them to trace him. 4 Knight-errant — a wandering knight — one who went in quest of adventuro. Yet faintly now declines the fatal strife, So much his love was dearer than his life. Now every leaf, and every moving breath Presents a foe, and every foe a death. Wearied, forsaken, and pursued,... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 Seiten
...bore away the dame, And taught the woods to echo to the stream His dreadful challenge and his clashing beam : Yet faintly now declines the fatal strife, So much his love was dearer than his life. Now every leaf, and every moving breath Presents a foe, and every foe a death. Wearied, forsaken, and pursued,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1853 - 838 Seiten
...away the dame, And taught the woods to echo to the stream His dreadful challenge, and his clashing beam ; Yet faintly now declines the fatal strife, So much his love was dearer than his life. Now every leaf and every moving breath Presents a foe, and ev'ry foc a death. Denham from time to time... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 Seiten
...bore away the dame, and taught the woods to echo to the stream his dreadful challenge and his clashing beam; yet faintly now declines the fatal strife, so much his love was dearer than his life. Now every leaf and every moving breath present a foe, and every foe a death: wearied, forsaken and pursued,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 Seiten
...which we build our love, which, now made perfect, Stands without those supports. SIR J. DENHAM. He faintly now declines the fatal strife; So much his love was dearer than his life ! Si.s. J. DENHAM. Fortunes, honour, friends, Are mere diversions from love's proper object, Which... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 Seiten
...which we build our love, which, now made perfect, Stands without those supports. SIR J. DENHAM. He faintly now declines the fatal strife; So much his love was dearer than his life ! SIR J. DENHAM. Fortunes, honour, friends, Are mere diversions from love's proper object, Which only... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 562 Seiten
...bore away the dame, And taught the woods to echo to the stream His dreadful challenge and his clashing beam ; Yet faintly now declines the fatal strife,...than his life. Now ev'ry leaf and ev'ry moving breath Présente a foe, and ev'ry foc a death. All safety in despair of safety placed, 290 Courage he thence... | |
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