 When the oldest cask is opened, And the largest lamp is lit ; When the chestnuts glow in the embers, And the kid turns on the spit ; When young and old in circle Around the firebrands close ; When the girls are weaving baskets, And the lads are shaping...  The Illustrated Magazine - Σελίδα 1201864Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 σελίδες
...goodman mends his armor, And trims his helmet's plume ; When the goodwife's shuttle merrily Goes Hashing through the loom ; With weeping and with laughter Still is the story told, How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old. THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY. SEMPRONIUS'S SPEECH FOR... | |
 | Charles Underwood Dasent - 1877 - 238 σελίδες
...opened, And the largest lamp is lit, When the chesnuts glow in the embers, And the kid turns on the spit, With weeping and with laughter Still is the story told, How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old." 4. " Her arms across her breast she laid ; She... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1878 - 240 σελίδες
...the girls are weaving baskets, And the lads are shaping bows ; LXX. When the goodman mends his armor, And trims his helmet's plume ; When the goodwife's...and with laughter Still is the story told, How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old. BATTLE OF THE LAKE REGILLUS. THE BATTLE OF THE LAKE... | |
 | John Andrew Jennings - 1878 - 488 σελίδες
...days of old. When the good man mends his armour, And trims his helmet's plurne ; When the good wife's shuttle merrily Goes flashing through the loom; •...and with laughter Still is the story told, How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old. LORD MACAULAY. [From " Lays of Ancient Rome."—... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 σελίδες
...shaping bows: LXX. When the goodman mends his armor. And trims his helmet's plume ; When the goodwill's shuttle merrily Goes flashing through the loom; With...and with laughter Still is the story told, How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old. LORD MAOAULAY. THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHE RIB.... | |
 | Evan Daniel - 1879 - 260 σελίδες
...circle around the firebrands close ; When the girls are weaving baskets, and the lads are shaping bows ; When the goodman mends his armour, and trims his helmet's...goodwife's shuttle merrily goes flashing through the loam ; — With weeping and with laughter still is the story told, How well Horatius kept the bridge... | |
 | Andrew Reed - 1879 - 504 σελίδες
...THE STANDARD. " When the good man mends his arrow, And trims his helmet's plume, When the good wife's shuttle merrily Goes flashing through the loom, With...and with laughter Still is the story told How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old." . LORD MACAULAV. i OON after the events last described,... | |
 | Quintus Horatius Flaccus - 1883 - 134 σελίδες
...the closing lines of Macaulay's Horatius, When young and old in circle Around the firebrands close, With weeping and with laughter Still is the story told How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.' 2g. virtute functos duces] lit. 'leaders who have... | |
 | Moffatt and Paige - 1879 - 428 σελίδες
...cannot be that thou art gone." — Coleridge. " ' Now yield thee,' cried Lars Porsena." — Macaulay. " With weeping and with laughter Still is the story told, How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old." — Macaulay. ADJECTIVE SENTENCE. An adjective... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 452 σελίδες
...Around the firebrands close ; When the girls are weaving baskets, And the lads are shaping bows ; LXX. When the goodman mends his armour, And trims his helmet's...and with laughter Still is the story told, How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old. THE BATTLE OF THE LAKE REGILLUS. THE following poem... | |
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