 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1843 - 626 pages
...and hatred, Scowled at the narrow way Where, wallowing in a pool of blood, The bravest Tuscans lay. But meanwhile axe and lever Have manfully been plied...Loud cried the Fathers all. " Back, Lartius ! back, Herminiue! Back, ere the ruin fall!" Back darted Spurius Lartius; Herminius darted back : And, as they... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 438 pages
...hatred, Scowled at the narrow way Where, wallowing in a pool of blood, The bravest Tuscaus lay. 53. But meanwhile axe and lever Have manfully been plied,...Lartius? back, Herminius! Back, ere the ruin fall!" 54. Back darted Spurius Lartius; Herminius darted back: And, as they passed, beneath their feet They... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English poetry - 1843 - 142 pages
...hatred, Scowled at the narrow way Where, wallowing in a pool of blood, The bravest Tuscans lay. 53. But meanwhile axe and lever Have manfully been plied,...Lartius! back, Herminius! Back, ere the ruin fall!" 64. Back darted Spurius Lartius; Herminius darted back: And, as they passed, beneath their feet They... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...tossing sea of steel, To and fro the standards reel ; And the victorious trumpet-peal Dies fitfully away. But meanwhile axe and lever Have manfully been plied...Spurius Lartius Herminius darted back : And, as they pass'd, beneath their feet They felt the timbers crack, But when they turn'd their faces, And on the... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...and hatred, Scowl'd at the narrow way Where, wallowing in a pool of blood, The bravest Tuscans lay. But meanwhile axe and lever Have manfully been plied,...Spurius Lartius ; Herminius darted back : And, as they pass'd, beneath their feet They felt the timbers crack. But when they tum'd their faces, And on the... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...and hatred, Scowl'd at the narrow way Where, wallowing in a pool of blood, The bravest Tuscans lay. But meanwhile axe and lever Have manfully been plied,...Spurius Lartius ; Herminius darted back : And, as they pass'd, beneath their feet They felt the timbers crack. But when they turn'd their faces, And on the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English poetry - 1849 - 224 pages
...hatred, Scowled at the narrow way Where, wallowing in a pool of blood, The bravest Tuscans lay. LIII. But meanwhile axe and lever Have manfully been plied...Loud cried the Fathers all. " Back, Lartius ! back, Henninius ! Back, ere the ruin fall ! " I LIV. Back darted Spurius Lartius ; Herminius darted back... | |
 | Walter McLeod - 1850 - 170 pages
...attack; But those behind cried " Forward!" And those before cried " Back!" And backward now and forward But meanwhile axe and lever Have manfully been plied;...Loud cried the Fathers all. " Back, Lartius ! back, 1 let-miui us ! Back, ere the ruin fall!" Back darted Spurius Lartius; Herminius darted back: And,... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - Rome - 1851 - 278 pages
...Horatius!" Loud cried the Fathers all. "Back, Lartius! back, Herminius! Back, ere the ruin fall!" LIV. Back darted Spurius Lartius; Herminius darted back:...passed, beneath their feet They felt the timbers crack. Bat when they turned their faces, And cm the farther shore Saw brave Horatius stand alone, They would... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 570 pages
...shrank like boys who rouse an old bear in the wood. But meanwhile axe and lever have manfully bcen plied. And now the bridge hangs tottering above the...Herminius darted back ; And, as they passed, beneath their fcet they felt the timbers crack. But when they turned thcir faces, and on the further shore Saw brave... | |
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But meanwhile axe and lever Have manfully been plied; And now the bridge hangs tottering Above the boiling tide. " Come back, come back, Horatius ! 
