Pleased with the distant roar, with quicker tread Fast by his hand one lisping boy she led ; And one fair girl amid the loud alarm Slept on her kerchief, cradled by her arm ; While round her brows bright beams of honour dart And love's warm eddies circle... The Annual Register - Page 4441799Full view - About this book
| George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1847 - 400 pages
...she viewed. Pleased with the distant roar, with quicker tread Fast by his hand one lisping boy she led ; And one fair girl, amid the loud alarm, Slept...by her arm ; While round her brows bright beams of honor dart, And love's warm eddies circle round her heart. I POETICAL RECITATIONS. 295 Near and more... | |
| George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1847 - 396 pages
...loud alarm, Slept on her kerchief, cradled by her arm ; While round her brows bright beams of honor dart, And love's warm eddies circle round her heart. Near and more near the intrepid beauty prest, Saw through the driving smoke his dancing crest ; Saw on his helm, her virgin... | |
| Reciter - 1848 - 262 pages
...she viewed. Pleased with the distant roar, with quicker tread, Fast by his hand one lisping boy she led ; And one fair girl, amid the loud alarm, Slept...eddies circle round her heart. Near, and more near, the intrepid beauty press'd, Saw through the driving smoke his dancing crest ; Heard the exulting shout,... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1835 - 320 pages
...quicker tread Fast by his hand, one lisping boy she led; And one fair girl, amid the loud alarm 10 Slept on her kerchief, cradled by her arm ; While...eddies circle round her heart. — Near, and more near, the intrepid beauty pressed, Saw, through the driving smoke, his dancing crest15 Heard the exulting... | |
| Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...she viewed. Pleased with the distant roar, with quicker tread, Fast by his hand one lisping boy she led ; And one fair girl, amid the loud alarm, Slept...eddies circle round her heart. Near, and more near, th' intrepid beauty press'd, Saw through the driving smoke, his dancing crest ; Heard the exulting... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...she viewed. Pleased with the distant roar, with quicker tread 1'ast by his hand one lisping boy she , who first loved a cloud, Ixion. Bacchus we know, and we allow His tipsy rites. But the intrepid beauty pressed, Saw through the driving smoke his dancing crest; Saw on his helm, her... | |
| William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - 422 pages
...she view'd. Pleas'd with the distant roar, with quicker tread Fast by his hand one lisping boy she led ; And one fair girl amid the loud alarm Slept...While round her brows bright beams of honour dart, * nd love's warm eddies circle round her heart. — Near and more near th' intrepid beauty press'd,... | |
| Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...she view'd. Pleas'd with the distant roar, with quicker tread Fast by his hand one lisping boy she led; And one fair girl amid the loud alarm Slept on...eddies circle round her heart. — Near and more near the intrepid beauty press'd, Saw through the driving smoke his dancing crest; Saw on his helm, her... | |
| Conrad Hume Pinches - Elocution - 1854 - 460 pages
...she viewed. Pleased with the distant roar, with quicker tread, Fast by his hand one lisping boy she led ; And one fair girl, amid the loud alarm, Slept...eddies circle round her heart. — Near, and more near, the intrepid beauty pressed, Saw through the driving smoke, his dancing crest : Heard the exulting... | |
| English poetry - 1856 - 754 pages
...she view'd. Pleas'd with the distant roar, with quicker tread Fast by his hand one lisping boy she led ; And one fair girl amid the loud alarm Slept...eddies circle round her heart. — Near and more near the intrepid beauty press'd, Saw through the driving smoke his dancing crest ; Saw on his helm, her... | |
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