| Joseph Addison - 1773 - 326 pages
...I hear the drums tumultuous found, The vigor's fhouts and dying groans confound, The dreadful burft of cannon rend the Skies, And all the thunder of the battle rife. Twas then great MARLBRO'S mighty foul wasprov'd, 'That, in the fhock of charging hofts unmov'd,... | |
| Letter writing - 1803 - 268 pages
...wilt thou find, To fing the furious troops in battle join'd ? Methinks I hear the drum's tumult' out sound, The victor's shouts, and dying groans confound,...rend the skies, And all the thunder of the battle rife." ADDISON. Adjectives may be known by putting the word thing after them, with which they make... | |
| 1902 - 642 pages
...sing the furious troops in battle joined ? Methinks I hear the drum's tumultuous sound The victors' shouts and dying groans confound ; The dreadful burst...the skies, And all the thunder of the battle rise. 'Twas then great Marlborough's mighty soul was proved, That, in the shock of charging hosts unmoved,... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 470 pages
...borders stands. But O, my muse, what numbers wilt thou find To sing the furious troops in battle join'd ! Methinks I hear the drum's tumultuous sound, The victor's...the skies, And all the thunder of the battle rise, 'Twas then great Marlbro's mighty soul was prov'd, That, in the shock of charging hosts unmov'd,. Amidst... | |
| English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...sing the furious troops in battle join'd ! Methinks I hear the drums tumultuous sound The victors' shouts and dying groans confound, The dreadful burst...the skies, And all the thunder of the battle rise. Twas then great Marlhro's mighty soul was prov'd, That, in the shock of charging hosts unmov'd, Amidst... | |
| David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1807 - 786 pages
...Blenheim : But O, my Muse ! what numbers wilt thou find To sing1 tlic furious troops in battle lo'm'cl Î Methinks, I hear the drum's tumultuous sound, The victor's shouts, and dying groana confound. What man, ao mad, so ignorant of the ruks of Longinus, Aristotle, and all the schoolmen,... | |
| Joseph Addison - English literature - 1811 - 638 pages
...borders stands. But,O, my muse, what numbers wilt thou find To sing the furious troops in battle join'd ! Methinks I hear the drum's tumultuous sound, The victor's...the skies, And all the thunder of the battle rise. Twas then great Marlbro's mighty soul was prov'dt That, in the shock of charging hosts unmov'd, Amidst... | |
| Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 542 pages
...borders stands. But O, my muse, what numbers wilt thou find To sing the furious troops in battle join'd ! Methinks I hear the drum's tumultuous sound The victor's...the skies, And all the thunder of the battle rise. 'Twas then great Marlbro's mighty soul was prov'd, That, in the shock of charging hosts nnmov'd, Amidst... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1811 - 318 pages
...stands. But, O, my muse, what numbers wilt thou find To sing the furious troops in battle join'd ! Methinks I hear the drum's tumultuous sound, The victor's...the skies, And all the thunder of the battle rise. 'Twas then great Marlbro's mighty soul was prov'd, That, in the shock of charging hosts unmov'd, Amidst... | |
| Hugh Blair - English language - 1815 - 582 pages
...But ! O my mus.- ! what numbers wilt thou find To smff the furious troops in battle join'd! McUiinks, I hear the drum's tumultuous sound, The victor's shouts, and dying groans, confound ; Sec. Introductions of this kind, are a forced attempt in a writer, to spur up himself, and his reader,... | |
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