No sound of joy or sorrow Was heard from either bank ; But friends and foes in dumb surprise, With parted lips and straining eyes, Stood gazing where he sank. And when above the surges They saw his crest appear, All Rome sent forth a rapturous cry, And... The Silver-Burdett Readers: First-fifth book - Page 144by Ella Marie Powers, Thomas Minard Balliet - 1906Full view - About this book
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1843 - 626 pages
...with his harness on his back, Plunged headlong in the tide. No sound of joy or sorrow Was heard from either bank; But friends and foes in dumb surprise,...the ranks of Tuscany Could scarce forbear to cheer.' — pp. 6*7-72. The reward of Horatius is thus given; and, in our judgment, happily suggests the simplicity... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...with his harness on his back, Plunged headlong in the tide. No sound of joy or sorrow Was heard from either bank, But friends and foes in dumb surprise,...lips and straining eyes, Stood gazing where he sank; Ami when above the surges They saw his crest appear, All Rome sent forth a rapturous cry, And even... | |
| 1842 - 416 pages
...with his harness on his back, Plunged headlong in the tide. No sound of joy or sorrow Was heard from either bank ; But friends and foes in dumb surprise,...surges They saw his crest appear, All Rome sent forth a rapt'rous cry, And e'en the ranks of Tuscany Could scarce forbear to cheer. But fiercely ran the current,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 438 pages
...his harness on his back, Plunged headlong iu the tide. 60. No sound of joy or sorrow Was heard from either bank; But friends and foes in dumb surprise,...the ranks of Tuscany Could scarce forbear to cheer. 61. But fiercely ran the current, Swollen high by months of rain: And fast his blood was flowing; And... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 142 pages
...his harness on his back, Plunged headlong in the tide. 60. No sound of joy or sorrow Was heard from either bank; But friends and foes in dumb surprise,...the ranks of Tuscany Could scarce forbear to cheer. 61. But fiercely ran the current, Swollen high by months of rain: And fast his blood was flowing; And... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - 1843 - 606 pages
...or sorrow Was heard from either bank ; But friends and foes, in dumb surprise, With parted lipa antl straining eyes, Stood gazing where he sank ; And when...the ranks of Tuscany Could scarce forbear to cheer. # * * * Never, I ween, did swimmer, Jn such an evil caso, Struggle through such a raging flood Sale... | |
| John Holmes Agnew - 1843 - 604 pages
...harness on his back, Plunged headlong in the tide. No sound of joy or sorrow Was heard from either bunk ; But friends and foes, in dumb surprise, With parted lips and straining eyes, Stnnd gazing where he sunk ; And when above the surges They saw his crest appear, All Rome sent forth... | |
| Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...with his harness on his back, Plung'd headlong in the tide. No sound of joy or sorrow Was heard from either bank ; But friends and foes in dumb surprise,...With parted lips and straining eyes, Stood gazing when he sank ; And when above the surges They saw his crest appear, All Rome sent forth a rapturous... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 224 pages
...bank ; V 4 But friends and foes in dumb surprise, < W-T_. ^ With parted lips and straining eye?, BE Stood gazing where he sank ; And when above the surges...the ranks of Tuscany Could scarce forbear to cheer. LXI. But fiercely ran the current, Swollen high by months of rain : And fast his blood was flowing... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1851 - 260 pages
...his harness on his back, Plunged headlong in the tide. LX. No sound of joy or sorrow Was heard from either bank; But friends and foes in dumb surprise,...sank; And when above the surges They saw his crest appeal-, All Rome sent forth a rapturous cry, And even the ranks of Tuscany Could scarce forbear to... | |
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