 Yet are Spain's maids no race of Amazons, But formed for all the witching arts of love : Though thus in arms they emulate her sons, And in the horrid phalanx dare to move, ' Tis but the tender fierceness of the dove, Pecking the hand that hovers o'er...  Don Esteban: Or, Memoirs of a Spaniard - Page 281by Valentín Llanos Gutiérrez - 1825 - 292 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1816 - 248 pages
...? Who hang so fiercely on the flying Gaul, Foiled by a woman's hand, before a battered wall?" LVII. Yet are Spain's maids no race of Amazons, But formed for all the witching arts of love : Though thus in arms they emulate her sons, And in the horrid phalanx dare to move, 'Tis but... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1817 - 250 pages
...n'sflushedhopeislost? Who hang so fiercely on the flying Gaul, Foiled by a woman's hand, before a battered wall?" LVII. Yet are Spain's maids no race of Amazons, But formed for all the witching arts of love: Though thus in arms they emulate her sons, And in the horrid phalanx dare to move, 'Tis but the... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1818 - 384 pages
...Who hang so fiercely on the flying Gaul, Foiled by a woman's hand, before a battered wall ? " LVII. Yet are Spain's maids no race of Amazons, But formed for all the wiiching arts of love: Though thus in arms they emulate her sons, And in the horrid phalanx dare to... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1821 - 478 pages
...? Who hang so fiercely on the flying Gaul, Foiled by a woman's hand, before a battered wall? LVII. Yet are Spain's maids no race of Amazons, But formed for all the witching arts of love : Though thus in arms they emulate her sons, And in the horrid phalanx dare to move, Tis but the... | |
 | Valentín Llanos Gutiérrez - Spain - 1825 - 326 pages
...all my heart," said he, " for now-a-days 'tis better to be a soldier than a droning mozo de inulas "" CHAPTER XV. Yet are Spain's maids no race of Amazons, But formed for all the witching arts of ]ove : Though thus in arms they emulate her sons, And in the horrid phalanx dare to move, Tw but the... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1831 - 290 pages
...hang so fiercely on the~ftying Gaul, Foiled by a woman's hand, before a batter' ' wall ? (1 1) n 2 Yet are Spain's maids no race of Amazons, But formed for all the witching arts of love : Though thus in arms they emulate her sons, And in the horrid phalanx dare to move, '1'is but... | |
 | Benjamin Homans - Military art and science - 1834 - 418 pages
...being thirstiest at the moment, drank a bumper of claret to the health of the courteous Spaniard. " Vet are Spain's maids no race of amazons — But formed for all the witching arts of love." The Spanish ladies are perfectly symmetrical in shape ; but the Georgians, their rivals in form,... | |
 | John Kincaid - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1835 - 206 pages
...personification of that beautiful description of Byron's in his first canto of Childe Harold — " Yet are Spain's maids no race of Amazons, But formed for all the witching arts of love!" Their house, under the circumstances in which we were placed, became an agreeable lounge for... | |
 | Thomas Roscoe - Andalusia - 1836 - 356 pages
...beauty, in the Maid of Saragossa, uniting the spirit of the eagle with the softness of the dove ! " Yet are Spain's maids no race of Amazons, But formed for all the witching arts of love ; Though thus in arms they emulate her eons, < And in the horrid plalanx dare to move, 'Tis but... | |
 | Thomas Roscoe - 1836 - 414 pages
...beauty, in the Maid of Saragassa, uniting the spirit of the eagle with the softness of the dove ! " Yet are Spain's maids no race of Amazons, But formed for all the witching arts of love ; Though thus in arms they emulate her sons, And in the horrid plalanx dare to move, "Tis but... | |
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