| 1900 - 608 pages
...warwhoop and the shriller scream Rose still ; but fainter were the thunders grown ; Of forty thousand that had manned the wall Some hundreds breathed, the rest were silent all.' ' A versified paraphrase,' it may be said, ' of sober history,' yet withal very different from the... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Don Juan (Legendary character) - 1823 - 204 pages
...of Ismail — hapless town ! Far flashed her burning towers o'er Danube's stream, And redly ran his blushing waters down. The horrid war-whoop and the...Some hundreds breathed — the rest were silent all ! In one thing ne'ertheless 'tis fit to praise The Russian army upon this occasion, A virtue much in... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 346 pages
...o'er Danube's stream, And redly ran his blushing waters down. The horrid war-whoop. and the schriller scream Rose still; but fainter were the thunders grown:...Some hundreds breathed — the rest were silent all! CANTO viii.— r> CXXXVIII. In one thing ne'ertheless 'tis fit to praise The Russian army upon this... | |
| James Eugene Farmer - France - 1896 - 340 pages
...You, too, will fall like Robert and pere Amand. The Pasquins are not lucky! " CHAPTER IV THE SURRENDER The horrid war-whoop and the shriller scream Rose...Some hundreds breathed, the rest were silent all! — BYRON, Don Juan. A GHASTLY spectacle was the street of Santa Engracia in the dawn of the morning... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1903 - 654 pages
...of Ismail — hapless town ! Far flashed her burning towers o'er Danube's stream, And redly ran his blushing waters down. The horrid war-whoop and the...Some hundreds breathed — the rest were silent all ! 3 cxxvm. In one thing ne'ertheless 't is fit to praise The Russian army upon this occasion, A virtue... | |
| Literature - 1901 - 872 pages
...warwhoop and the shriller scream Hose still; but fainter were the thunders grown; Of forty thousand that had manned the wall Some hundreds breathed, the rest were silent all. "A versified paraphrase," It may be Ťaid, "of sober history," yet withal very different from the most... | |
| Bernard G. Beatty - Don Juan (Legendary character) - 1985 - 264 pages
...of the soldiers who, despite the narrator's mockHomeric catalogue (VII, 15-22), remain an anonymous Forty thousand who had manned the wall, Some hundreds breathed — the rest were silent] all! (VIII, 27) Juan, invariably well intentioned, did not will this slaughter but is undeniably accomplice... | |
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