The fisher left his skiff to rock on Tamar's glittering waves : The rugged miners poured to war from Mendip's sunless caves: O'er Longleat's towers, o'er Cranbourne's oaks, the fiery herald flew: He roused the shepherds of Stonehenge, the rangers of Beaulieu.... Selections from the Writings of Lord Macaulay - Página 459por Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1876 - 475 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore - 1879 - 376 páginas
...Cranbourne's oaks, the fiery herald flew ; He roused the shepherds of Stonehenge, the rangers of Beaulieu. Right sharp and quick the bells all night rang out...And saw, o'erhanging Richmond Hill, the streak of Then bugle's note and cannon's roar the death-like silence broke, And with one start, and with one... | |
| Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - 1879 - 390 páginas
...shepherds of Stonehenge — the rangers of Beaulieu. Right sharp and quick the bells rang out all night from Bristol town, And, ere the day, three hundred...into the night, And saw, o'erhanging Richmond Hill that streak of bloodred light: The bugle's note and cannon's roar, the death-like silence broke, And... | |
| Ward Marcus and co, ltd - 1883 - 234 páginas
...shepherds of Stonehenge,15 the rangers of Beaulieu.10 Eight sharp and quick the bells all night rang oat from Bristol town, And ere the day three hundred horse had met on Clifton17 down ; The sentinel on Whitehall gate looked forth into the night, And saw o'erhanging Eichmond... | |
| Marshall John and co - 1884 - 266 páginas
...Cranbourne's oaks, the fiery herald flew, — He roused the shepherds of Stonehenge, the rangers of Beaulieu. Right sharp and quick the bells all night rang out...had met on Clifton Down. The sentinel on Whitehall gate15 looked forth into the night, And saw, o'erhanging Richmond Hill, the streak of bloodred light... | |
| John Heywood (ltd.) - 1884 - 232 páginas
...oaks, the fiery herald flew ; He roused the shepherds of Stonehenge,18 the rangers of Beaulieu.19 45 Right sharp and quick the bells all night rang out...the day three hundred horse had met on Clifton Down f The sentinel on Whitehall gate looked forth into the night, And saw o'erhanging Richmond Hill the... | |
| 1888 - 344 páginas
...Whitehall gate looked forth into the night, And saw, o'erhanging Richmond Hill, the streak of blood red light. Then bugle's note and cannon's roar, the death-like...silence broke, And with one start, and with one cry, the rbyal city woke. At once, on all her stately gates, arose the answering fires ; At once the wild alarum... | |
| Edmund Arthur Helps - 1884 - 360 páginas
...Cranbourne's* oaks, the fiery herald flew ; He roused the shepherds of Stonehenge, the rangers of Beaulieu.6 Right sharp and quick the bells all night rang out from Bristol town, 45 And ere the day three hundred horse had met on Clifton down ;7 The sentinel on Whitehall gate8 look'd... | |
| World - 1884 - 560 páginas
...shepherds of Stonehenge, the ranger* of Beaulieu. Right sharp and quick the bells all night rang oat from Bristol town. And ere the day three hundred horse had met ot» Clifton down ; The sentinel on Whitehall gate looked forth intothe night, And saw o'erhanging... | |
| Edward Thring - 1885 - 256 páginas
...oaks, the fiery herald flew; He roused the shepherds of Stonehenge, the rangers of Beaulien. Bight sharp and quick the bells all night rang out from...Whitehall Gate looked forth into the night, And saw o'erhangiug Richmond Hill the streak of blood-red light. Then bugle's note and cannon's roar the death-like... | |
| James Fawckner Nicholls - 1885 - 202 páginas
...Temple, who cast and erected it in thankfulness for the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 ; when " Right sharp and quick the bells all night rang out...day three hundred horse had met on Clifton down." This statue stands in the centre of old Temple street, which here intersects the new street. Immediately... | |
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