 | Samuel Johnson - English language - 1805 - 924 pages
...water, maketh a sound. Sacfn. The warlike ssurjuf trumpets loud. Ali/tjn. * Whene'er he spoke, his voice was heard around, Loud as a trumpet with a silver sound. RryJen. That which is conveyed into the brain by the ear is called sound ; though, till it affect the... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 458 pages
...nature's youthful prime appear'd, And just began to bloom his yellow beard. Whene'er he spoke, his voice was heard around, Loud as a trumpet, with a silver sound. 85 A laurel wreath'd his temples, fresh and green ; And myrtle sprigs, the marks of love, were rnix'd... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 500 pages
...nature's youthful prime appeared, And just began to bloom his yellow beard. Whene'er he spoke, his voice was heard around, Loud as a trumpet, with a silver sound ; A laurel wreathed his temples, fresh and green, And myrtle sprigs, the marks of love, were mixed... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...nature's.youthful prime appear'd, And just began to bloom his yellow beard. Whene'er he spoke, his back, says he, may do you harm ; ' The Sheep 's at hand, and wo A laurel wreath'd his temples, fresh and green ; A nd myrtle sprigs, the marki of love, were mix'd... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 612 pages
...Nature's youthful prime appear'd, Afid just b^gan to bloom his yellow beard. Whene'er he spoke, his voice was heard around, Loud as a trumpet, With a silver sound : A laurel wreath'd his temples, fresh and green ; And myrtle sprigs, the marks of love, were mix'd... | |
 | Walter Scott - Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746 - 1815 - 310 pages
...their military exercise, reminded Edward of a favourite passage in the description of Emetrius : whose voice was heard around, Loud as a trumpet with a silver sound. That of Flora, on the contrary, was soft and sweet, ' an excellent thing in woman ;' yet in urging... | |
 | Mrs. Ross, Author of The balance of comfort - English fiction - 1819 - 270 pages
...this monarch, with strong Arcite came Emetrius, King of Inde, a mighty name ! Whene'er he spoke, his voice was heard around, Loud as a trumpet with a silver sound ! # * * * s Having arrived on the ground, the seconds proceeded to mark out the extremities of that... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...Nature's youthful prime appear'd, And just began to bloom his yellow beard. Whene'er IK spoke, his : A laurel wreath '<! his temples, fresh and green ; And myrtle sprigs, the marks of love, were mii'c... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 346 pages
...Nature's youthful prime appear'd, And just began to bloom his yellow beard. "Whene'er he spoke, his voice was heard around, Loud as a trumpet, with a silver sound : A laurel wreath'd his temples, fresh and green ; And myrtle sprigs, the marks of love, were mix'd... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1821 - 308 pages
...their military exercise, reminded Edward of a favourite passage in the description of Emetrius— Whose voice was heard around . . Loud as a trumpet with a silver sound. That of Flora, on the contrary, was soft and sweet, " an excellent thing in woman;" yet in urging any... | |
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His age in nature's youthful prime appear'd, .And just began to bloom his yellow beard. Whene'er he spoke, his voice was heard around, Loud as a trumpet, with a silver sound ; A laurel wreath'd his temples, fresh and green, And myrtle sprigs, the marks... 
