And chance and craft and strength in single fights, And ever and anon with host to host Shocks, and the splintering spear, the hard mail hewn, Shield-breakings, and the clash of brands, the crash Of battleaxes on shatter'd helms, and shrieks After the... The Living Age - Page 1481870Full view - About this book
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1898 - 248 pages
...single fights, And ever and anon with host to host, Shocks and the splintering spear, the hard mail hewn, Shield-breakings and the clash of brands, the crash Of battleaxes on shattered helms and shrieks After the Christ. So we come to the final shattering of the ideal, the... | |
| Robert Hall Baynes - 1870 - 682 pages
...rythmically perfect. " Shield breakings, and the clash of brands, the crash Of battle•axes on shatter' d helms, and shrieks After the Christ, of those who...Looked up for heaven, and only saw the mist." And the last line of the same page has the same fault, caused by a needless copulative : — " Moans of... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1870 - 614 pages
...single fights, And ever and anon with host to host Shocks, and the splintering spear, the hard mail hewn, Shield-breakings, and the clash of brands, the...shrieks After the Christ, of those who falling down Look'd up for heaven, and only saw the mist ; And shouts of heathen and the traitor knights, Oaths,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1872 - 498 pages
...single fights, And ever'and anon with host to host Shocks, and the splintering-spear, the hard mail hewn, Shield-breakings, and the clash of brands, the...those who falling down Looked up for heaven, and only sa\\ the mist ; And shouts of heathen and the traitoi knights, Oaths, insult, filth, and monstrous... | |
| 1871 - 494 pages
...single fights. And ever and anon with host to host Shocks, and the splintering spear, the hard mail hewn, Shield-breakings, and the clash of brands, the crash Of battle-axes on shattered helms, and shrieks After the Christ, of those who falling down Looked up for heaven, and... | |
| The North American Review.VOL.CXII. - 1871 - 506 pages
...single fights. And ever and anon with host to host Shocks, and the splintering spear, the hard mail hewn, Shield-breakings, and the clash of brands, the crash Of battle-axes on shattered helms, and shrieks After the Christ, of those who falling down Looked up for heaven, and... | |
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1872 - 360 pages
...single fights, And ever and anon with host to host Shnrk*, and the splintering spear, the hard mall hewn, ¡Shield-breakings, and the clash of brands,...After the Christ, of those who falling down Looked np for heaven, and only saw the mist; And innata of heathen and the traitor knights, Oaths, insult,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1873 - 340 pages
...single fights, And ever and anon with host to host Shocks, and the splintering spear, the hard mail hewn, Shield-breakings, and the clash of brands, the...shrieks After the Christ, of those who falling down Look'd up for heaven, and only saw the mist ; And shouts of heathen and the traitor knights, Oaths,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1873 - 528 pages
...single fights, And ever and anon with host to host Shocks, and the splintering spear, the hard mail hewn, Shield-breakings, and the clash of brands, the...shatter'd helms, and shrieks After the Christ of those who tailing down Looked up for heaven, and only saw the mist ; And shouts of heathen and the traitor knights,... | |
| Leslie Stephen - 1873 - 380 pages
...youth, And some beheld the faces of old ghosts Look in upon tho battle, and when the combatants heard Shrieks After the Christ of those who, falling down, Looked up for heaven and only saw the mist. For men who wish to fight on both sides ; to win enough credit by slaying a dead lie to be justified... | |
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