 | John Dryden - 1867 - 556 pages
...well. What passion cannot Music raise and quell I xn. The trumpet's loud clangor * Excites us to arms, With shrill notes of anger, And mortal alarms. The...double double beat Of the thundering drum " Cries, hark I the foes come ; Charge, charge, 'tis too lato to retreat. The soft complaining flute In dying notes... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1867 - 360 pages
...clangor And mortal alarms. The double double double beat Excites us to arms, With shrill notes of anger Of the thundering drum Cries ' Hark ! the foes come...; Charge, charge, 'tis too late to retreat !' The woes of hopeless lovers, Whose dirge is whisper'd by the warbling lute. Sharp violins proclaim Their... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - Readers - 1868 - 636 pages
...so well. What passion cannot Music raise and quell ? The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms, With shrill notes of anger And mortal alarms. The...drum, Cries, " Hark ! the foes come ; Charge, charge, 't is too late to retreat ! " The soft complaining flute In dying notes discovers The woes of hopeless... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1869 - 570 pages
...so well What- passion cannot Music raise and quell 1 The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms, With shrill notes of anger, And mortal alarms. The...discovers The woes of hopeless lovers, • Whose dirge ia whisper'd by the warbling lute. r Sharp violins proclaim Their jealous pangs, and desperation, Fury,... | |
 | English poetry - 1869 - 444 pages
...so well. What passion cannot Music raise and quell ? The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms, With shrill notes of anger And mortal alarms. The...foes come ; Charge, charge, 'tis too late to retreat 1 ' The soft complaining flute In dying notes discovers The woes of hopeless lovers, Whose dirge is... | |
 | Class-book - Literature - 1869 - 344 pages
...well. What passion cannot Muaic raise and quell ? 3. The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms, With shrill notes of anger, And mortal alarms. The...foes come ; Charge, charge, 'tis too late to retreat. 4. The soft complaining flute In dying notes, discovers The woes of hopeless lovers, Whose dirge is... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1869 - 576 pages
...so well. What' passion cannot Music raise and quell ? The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms, With shrill notes of anger, And mortal alarms. The...beat Of the thundering drum Cries, hark ! the foes some ; Charge, charge, 'tis too late to retreat. The soft complaining flute In dying notes discovers... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...Music raise and quell ? The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms, With shrill notes of auger, s to my heart ; Not a tie will break, not a link will start ; Would you know the spell ? — Ч is too late to retreat. The soft complaining flute In dying notes discovers The woes of hopeless... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1871 - 356 pages
...is not careful to favour any such superstition : ' ' The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms, With shrill notes of anger And mortal alarms, The double double double beat Of the thundering drum," etc. we have seen him fain to keep asunder: "Sneereth* the trumpet, and stampeth the drum." In his... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1897 - 764 pages
...trie TIiunder"ing drum ^ 30 CrteSj hark I th^ fifes mine ; Charge, cHarge, 'tis ftk>Tate to retreat. 4 The soft complaining flute In dying notes discovers The woes of hopeless lovers, 35 Whose dirge is whispered by the warbling lute. 5 Sharp violins proclaim Their jealous pangs and... | |
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Less than a god they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly and so well. What passion cannot Music raise and quell? 
