| English poetry - 1822 - 418 pages
...builds her spicy nest ; For unto you at last she flies, And in your fragrant bosom dies. HOHENLINDEN. ON Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay...sight, When the drum beat at dead of night, Commanding flres of death to light The darkness of her scenery. By torch and trumpet fast array'd, Each horseman... | |
| Scotland - 1822 - 880 pages
...if Tom Campbell had turned out the prince of Editors, I should still have preferred him thinking of On Linden when the sun was low, All bloodless lay...dark as winter was the flow Of Iser rolling rapidly. EDITOR. You are getting sentimental now, I think. Will you have another tumbler ? ODOHEKTY. Hand me... | |
| William Banks - English language - 1823 - 462 pages
...pouring, The storm no more I dread ; Though thickening and blackening Round my devoted head." Ibid. " On Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay...fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery." CAMPBELL. " While gazing on the moon's light, A moment from her smile I turn'd, To look at orbs, that,... | |
| John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...long way that I must tread alone, Will lead my steps aright. LESSON CXV. Hohenlinden. — CAMPBELL. ON Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay...fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery. * Pronounced Eaer. «56 THE AMERICAN [Lesson By torch and trumpet fast arrayed, t * Each horseman drew... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1825 - 480 pages
...spirit and in sound. To justify this encomium, we need only recall the lines to the reader's memory. " On Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay...darkness of her scenery. By torch and trumpet fast arrayM, Each horseman drew his battle blade, And furious every charger neigh'd, To join the dreadful... | |
| John Arliss - 1825 - 382 pages
...election is the second Monday after Mid-lent Sunday. tfMWIM BATTLE OF HOHENLINDEN. ON Linden, where the sun was low All bloodless lay the untrodden snow,...Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of the scenery. By torch and trumpet fast arrayed Each horseman drew his battle blade, And furious every... | |
| Allan Cunningham - 1825 - 756 pages
...Donuil Dhu, HOHENLINDEN. THOMAS CAMPBELL, ESQ. On Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay th' untrodden snow ; And dark as winter was the flow Of...darkness of her scenery. By torch and trumpet fast array'd, Each horseman drew his battle blade, And, furious, every charger neigh'd To join the dreadful... | |
| Allan Cunningham - Ballads, Scots - 1825 - 388 pages
...Donuil Dhu, HOHENLINDEN. THOMAS CAMPBELL, ESQ. On Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay th' untrodden snow ; And- dark as winter was the flow...darkness of her scenery. By torch and trumpet fast array 'd, Each horseman drew his battle blade, And, furious, every charger neigh'd To join the dreadful... | |
| William Hazlitt - English literature - 1825 - 482 pages
...when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow. And dark as winter was the flow Oflser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When...darkness of her scenery. By torch and trumpet fast array'd, Each horseman drew his battle blade, And furious every charger neigh'd, To join the dreadful... | |
| William Samuel Cardell - Language and languages - 1825 - 276 pages
...learning, it appeared too trifling to be noticed, or fit only for the gleaners who might follow them. " On Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay...the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw an other sight ! When the drum beat, at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness... | |
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