 The war, that for a space did fail, Now trebly thundering swelled the gale, And— STANLEY ! was the cry. A light on Marmion's visage spread, And fired his glazing eye ; With dying hand, above his head He shook the fragment of his blade, And shouted '...  Select Reviews - Page 371809Full view - About this book
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1863 - 438 pages
...By many a death-bed I have been, " And many a sinner's parting seen, " But never aught like this." The war, that for a space did fail, Now trebly thundering swelled the gale, And—Stanley ! was the cry; A light on Marmion's visage spread, And fired his glazing eye: With dying... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1864 - 680 pages
...By many a death-bed I have been, And many a sinner's parting seen, But never aught like this." — The war, that for a space did fail, Now trebly thundering swelled the gale, And — STANLEY I was the cry; — A light on Marmion's visage spread, And fired his glazing eye : With dying hand,... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...seen, But never aught like this." — The war, that for a space did fail, Now trebly thundering swell'd the gale, And — STANLEY ! was the cry ; — A light on Marmion's visage spread, And fir'd his glazing eye : With dying hand, above his head He shook the fragment of his blade, And shouted... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Readers (Secondary) - 1866 - 568 pages
...! By many a death-bed I have been, And many a sinner's parting seen, But never aught like this." . The war, that for a space did fail, Now trebly thundering,...eye : With dying hand above his head, He shook the fragmgnt of his blade, And shouted " Victory ! Charge, Chester, charge I On, Stanley, on !" Were the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1866 - 792 pages
...— By many a death-bed I have been, And many a sinner's parting seen, But never aught like this. — The war, that for a space did fail, Now trebly thundering...fired his glazing eye : With dying hand, above his hend He shook the fragment of his blade, And shouted "Victory I — Charge, Chester, charge ! On, Stanley,... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - American poetry - 1866 - 412 pages
...king. * * * A yet more stirring passage is that of the death-scene of the hero, which closes thus : — The war, that for a space did fail, Now, trebly thundering,...the cry : A light on Marmion's visage spread, And fixed his glazing eye : With dying hand, above his head He shook the fragment of his blade, And shouted... | |
 | Standard poetry book - 1866 - 300 pages
...bliss!— By many a death-bed I have been, And many a sinner's parting seen, But never aught like this." The war, that for a space did fail, Now trebly thundering, swelled the gale, And—STANLEY ! was the cry: A light on Marmion's visage spread, And fired his glazing eye: With dying... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1866 - 1204 pages
...:— A light on Marmion's visage sprnJ. And fired his glazing eve : With dying hand, above his bead, He shook the fragment of his blade. And shouted " Victory ! — Charge, Chester, charge ! On, on !" Were the last words of Mannion. XXXIII. By this, though deep the evening fr2 Still rose the battle's... | |
 | Thomas Wright - Great Britain - 1867 - 298 pages
...wounded Lord Marmion " Started from the ground As light as if he felt no wound ; " and again, when " With dying hand above his head, He shook the fragment of his blade, And shouted VICTOBT." Nor is it in the delivery of poetry alone that the differing effects of good and bad reading... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - 398 pages
...lîy many a death-bed I have been, And manv a sinner's parting seen, lint never aught like this. — The war. that for a space did fail, .Now trebly thundering swelled the ffalc, And— STANLEY! was the cry;— A light on Marmion's visage spread, And llrcd his glazing eye... | |
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