Oh, bloodiest picture in the book of Time, Sarmatia fell, unwept, without a crime ; Found not a generous friend, a pitying foe, Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her woe... The Poetical Works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White - Σελίδα 116των Samuel Rogers - 1839 - 495 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
| Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - 1894 - 462 σελίδες
...civilized nations at the fall of Jerusalem. The poet has celebrated these events in the immortal lines: "Oh! bloodiest picture in the book of Time, Sarmatia...in her woe ! Dropp'd from her nerveless grasp the shatter' d spear, Closed her bright eye, and curb'd her high career: Hope for a season bade the world... | |
| Henry Coppée - 1894 - 544 σελίδες
...— the watchword and reply ; Then pealed the notes omnipotent to charm, And the loud tocsin tolled their last alarm. In vain — alas, in vain ! — ye gallant few, From rank to rank your volleyed thunder flew : Oh, bloodiest picture in the book of Time, Sarmatia fell unwept without a crime... | |
| John Mackintosh - 1896 - 532 σελίδες
...the infamous partition of Poland, he rose to a high pitch of inspiration, as in these lines : — " Oh, bloodiest picture in the book of time ! Sarmatia fell, unwept, without a crime ; Found not a generons friend, a pitying foe, Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her woe ! Dropped from her nerveless... | |
| Scotch-Irish Society of America - 1897 - 480 σελίδες
...them. The situation recalls the pathetic stanza of one of the earlier poets on a kindred subject: O bloodiest picture in the book of Time, Sarmatia fell...pitying foe, Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her woe. The men who fled in 1763 returned almost to a man in 1766 and 1767, at the close of the Indian war... | |
| Donald Grant Mitchell - 1897 - 322 σελίδες
...reason of the sympathetic allusion to the woes of Poland : " Ah, bloodiest picture in the book of time 1 Sarmatia fell, unwept, without a crime ; Found not...pitying foe, Strength in her arms nor mercy in her woe ! Dropped from her nerveless grasp the shattered spear, Closed her bright eye and curbed her high career,... | |
| Donald Grant Mitchell - 1897 - 320 σελίδες
...allusion to the woes of Poland : " Ah, bloodiest picture in the book of time ! Sarmatia fell, un wept, without a crime ; Found not a generous friend, a pitying foe, Strength in her arms nor mercy in her woe 1 Dropped from her nerveless grasp the shattered spear, Closed her bright eye and curbed her high career,... | |
| Southern Historical Society - 1897 - 800 σελίδες
...conquerors. He saw his mother — Virginia — with bleeding breast, in her hour of agony — "Find not a generous friend, a pitying foe, Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her woe." I have said Mr. Hunter was a conservative. No man loved truth more, or was quicker to discern abstract... | |
| Southern Historical Society - 1897 - 800 σελίδες
...conquerors. He saw his mother — Virginia — with bleeding breast, in her hour of agony — "Find not a generous friend, a pitying foe, Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her woe." I have said Mr. Hunter was a conservative. No man loved truth more, or was quicker to discern abstract... | |
| Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 432 σελίδες
...— the watchword and reply ; Then pealed the notes, omnipotent to charm, And the loud tocsin tolled their last alarm ! — In vain, alas ! in vain, ye gallant few ! From rank to rank your volleyed thunder flew : — Oh, bloodiest picture in the book of Time, Sarmatia fell, unwept, without... | |
| Richard Garnett - 1899 - 442 σελίδες
...live ! — with her to die ! Then pealed the notes, omnipotent to charm, And the loud tocsin tolled their last alarm ! — In vain, alas ! in vain, ye gallant few ! From rank to rank your volleyed thunder flew : — Oh, bloodiest picture in the book of Time, Sarmatia fell, unwept, without... | |
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