 ... straight each light was extinguished quite, Save the flame so lurid-blue On the Wizard's brow, (whose flashings now Assumed a bloody hue), And those sparks of fire, which grief and ire From his glaring eye-balls drew ! And he stamped in rage, and...  Mistrust; or, Blanche and Osbright - Seite 163von Matthew Gregory Lewis - 1809Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1826 - 654 Seiten
...When he might have unsheathed a sword!" — He said, and from hit mouth there came А rapour blue ami dank, Whose poisonous breath seemed the kiss of death,...warrior senseless sank. Morning breaks! again he wakes ; Lo! in the porch he lies, i And still in his heart he feels the dart, \Vhicb shot from the captive's... | |
 | James Service - 1834 - 162 Seiten
...eye-balls drew ! And he stamped in rage, and he laughed in scorn, While in thundering tone he roared, " Now shame on the coward who sounded a horn, When he...Warrior senseless sank. Morning breaks ! again he wakes ; Lo ! in the porch he lies, And still in his heart he feels the dart, Which shot from the captive's... | |
 | Moses Aaron Richardson - 1844 - 436 Seiten
...eye-balls drew ! And he stamped in rage, and he laughed in scorn, While in thundering tone he roared, " Now shame on the coward who sounded a horn, When he...Warrior senseless sank. Morning breaks ! again he wakes ; Lo ! in the porch he lies, And siill in his heart he feels the dart, Which shot from the captive's... | |
 | 1844 - 858 Seiten
...eye-bulls drew ! And he stamped in rage, and he laughed in scorn, While in thundering tone he roared, " Now shame on the coward who sounded a horn, When he...Warrior senseless sank. Morning breaks ! again he wakes ; Lo! in the porch he lies, And still in his heart he feels the dart, Which shot from the captive's... | |
 | Joseph S. Moore - 1853 - 900 Seiten
...thundering tone he roared, ' Now shame on the coward who sounded a horn, When he might have unsheatht a sword ! ' He said, and from his mouth there came...Warrior senseless sank. Morning breaks ! again he wakes ; Lo ! in the porch he lies, And still in his heart he feels the dart Which shot from the captive's... | |
 | 1869 - 366 Seiten
...eyeballs drew ! And he stampt in rage, and he laughed in scorn, While in thundeiing tone he roared, Now shame on the coward who sounded a horn, When he might have unsheatht a sword." Lewis says of his ballad, " It is founded upon a tradition current iu Northumberland.... | |
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