 But with a crash like thunder Fell every loosened beam, And, like a dam, the mighty wreck Lay right athwart the stream: And a long shout of triumph Rose from the walls of Rome, As to the highest turret-tops Was splashed the yellow foam.  Poems of Places: Italy - Sida 131redigerad av - 1877Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 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 sidor
...ere the ruin fall!" Back darted Spurius Lartius; Herminius darted back : And, as they passed, beneath their feet They felt the timbers crack. But when they...right athwart the stream ; And a long shout of triumph Rose from the walls of Rome, As to the highest turret-tops Was splashed the yellow foam. And like a... | |
 | 1842 - 416 sidor
...bridge, and the floating of the ruin down the tide, are described in the following beautiful lines — " But with a crash like thunder Fell every loosened...right athwart the stream : And a long shout of triumph Rose from the walls of Rome, As to the highest turret-tops Was splashed the yellow foam. And, like... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - 1843 - 606 sidor
...take up the ballad. Back darted Spurius Lnrtius ; Herminius darted back : And, as they passed, beneath their feet They felt the timbers crack. But when they...right athwart the stream : And a long shout of triumph Rose from the walls of Rome, As to the highest turret-tops Was splashed the yellow foam. And, like... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew - 1843 - 604 sidor
...passed, beneath their feet TUi'y felt the timbers crack. But wlien they turned their faces, And on i in- farther shore Saw brave Horatius stand alone. '' They...And, like a dam, the mighty wreck Lay right athwart tho stream : And a long shout of triumph Rose from the walle of Rome, As to the highest turret-tops... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 142 sidor
...the ruin fall!" 64. Back darted Spurius Lartius; Herminius darted back: And, as they passed, beneath their feet They felt the timbers crack. But when they...Horatius stand alone, They would have crossed once more. 55. But with a crash like thunder Fell every loosened beam, And, like a dam, the mighty wreck Lay right... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 438 sidor
...the ruin fall!" 54. Back darted Spurius Lartius; Herminius darted back: And, as they passed, beneath their feet They felt the timbers crack. But when they...Horatius stand alone, They would have crossed once more. 55. But with a crash like thunder Fell every loosened beam, And, like a dam, the mighty wreck Lay right... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 108 sidor
...the ruin fall ! " Back darted Spurius Lartius ; Herminius darted back : And, as they passed, beneath their feet They felt the timbers crack. But when they...right athwart the stream : And a long shout of triumph Rose from the walls of Rome, As to the highest turret-tops Was splashed the yellow foam. And, like... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 sidor
...darted back : And, as they pass'd, beneath their feet They felt the timbers crack, But when they turn'd their faces, And on the farther shore Saw brave Horatius stand alone, They would have cross'd once more. But with a crash like thunder Fell every loosen'd beam, And, like a dam, the mighty... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 sidor
...darted back : And, as they pass'd, beneath their feet They felt the timbers crack. But when they tum'd their faces, And on the farther shore Saw brave Horatius stand alone, They would have cross'd once more. But with a crash like thunder Fell every loosen'd beam, And, like a dam, the mighty... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 sidor
...darted back : And, as they pass'd, beneath their feet They felt the timbers crack. But when they turn'd their faces, And on the farther shore Saw brave Horatius stand alone, They would have cross'd once more. But with a crash like thunder Fell every loosen'd beam, And, like a dam, the mighty... | |
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