 | Hugh Blair - 1833 - 654 σελίδες
...his Campaign, has fallen into an error of this kind, when about to describe the battle of Blenheim. But O my muse! what numbers wilt thou find To sing...sound, The victor's shouts, and dying groans, confound ; Sic. The faults opposite to the sublime are chiefly two: the frigid, and the bombast The frigid consists,... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1838 - 338 σελίδες
...Campaign, has fallen into an error of this kind, when about to describe the battle of Blenheim : But p ! my Muse ! what numbers wilt thou find To sing the...sound, The victor's shouts, and dying groans, confound ; &c. Analysis. Introductions of this kind, are a forced attempt in a writer to spur up himself and... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1839 - 316 σελίδες
...Blenheim : But O ! my Muse ! what numbers wilt thou find Tu sing the furious troops in battle joinM ? Methinks I hear the drum's tumultuous sound, The victor's shouts, and dying groans, confound j &c. Analysis. Introductions of this kind, are a forced attempt in a writer to spur up himself and... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1839 - 702 σελίδες
...Blenheim, But, O my Muse ! wliat numbers wilt thou find To sing the furious troops in battle join'dt Methinks, I hear the drum's tumultuous sound, The victor's shouts, and dying groans, confound ; &c. Introductions of this kind are a forced attempt in a writer to spur up himself, and his reader,... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1840 - 314 σελίδες
...Campaign, has fallen into an error of this kind, when about to describe the battle of Blenheim : But p ! my Muse ! what numbers wilt thou find To sing the...sound, The victor's shouts, and dying groans, confound ; &c. Analysis. Introductions of this kind, are a forced attempt in a writer to spur up himself and... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 σελίδες
...Nor fens nor floods can stop Britannia's bands, When her proud foe rang'd on their borders stands. But O, my Muse, what numbers wilt thou find To sing the furious troops in battle join'd ! Melhinks I hear the drums tumultuous sound, The victors' shouts and dying groans confound, The dreadful... | |
 | Thomas Morris - 1845 - 256 σελίδες
...echoing hills the loud alarm repeat : Methinks I hear the drums' tumultuous sound The victors' shout and dying groans confound ; The dreadful burst of cannon rend the skies, And all the thunders of the battle rise." DURING the months of April and May the British were leaving the distant... | |
 | 1852 - 874 σελίδες
...; Nor fens nor floods can stop Britannia's bands, When her proud foe mng'd on their borders stands. eakness, 5 * drums tumultuous sound, The victors' shouts and dying groans confound, The dreadful burst of cannon... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 σελίδες
...a certain stage, it was carried to Godolphin ; and the last lines which he read were these : — " But O, my muse ! what numbers wilt thou find To sing...dreadful burst of cannon rend the skies, And all the thunders of the battle rise. 'Twas then great Marlborough's mighty soul was proved, That, in the shock... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 360 σελίδες
...Godolphin ; and the last lines which he read were these : — " But 0, my muse ! what numbers wilt them find To sing the furious troops in battle join'd ?...dreadful burst of cannon rend the skies, And all the thunders of the battle rise. 'Twas then great Marlborough's mighty soul was proved, That, in the shock... | |
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But O, my muse ! what numbers wilt thou find To sing the furious troops in battle join'd ? Methinks I hear the drum's tumultuous sound, The victor's shouts and dying groans confound ; The dreadful burst of cannon rend the skies, And all the thunders of... 
