 | John Scott Clark - English language - 1886 - 406 pages
...dactylic ; it is not until the fourth verse is reached that the prevalent foot is seen to be dactylic: " Fair stood the wind for France, When we our sails advance, Nor now to prove our chance Longer will | tarry." And the same is true of Longfellow's stanza, And of the first verse in Cowper's " Poplars:"... | |
 | American poetry - 1886 - 552 pages
...Glory's temple is the tomb; Death is immortality. JAMES MONTGOMERY. THE BALLAD OF AGINCOURT. ¡JAIR stood the wind for France, When we our sails advance, Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry ; But putting to the main, At Kause, the mouth of Seine, With all his martial train, Lauded... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - American literature - 1888 - 712 pages
...free ; Glory's temple is the tomb , Death is immortality. JAMES MONTGOMERY. THE BALLAD OF AGINCOURT. stood the wind for France, When we our sails advance, Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry ; But putting to the main, At Kause, the mouth of Seine, With all his martial train, Landed... | |
 | Alexander Bain - English language - 1888 - 388 pages
...gets a deserved emphasis. Drayton has a well-rhymed opening stanza in one of his Agincourt Odes:— Fair stood the wind for France, When we our sails advance, Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry; But putting to the main, At Caux, the mouth of Seine, With all his martial train, Landed... | |
 | Jakob Schipper - English language - 1888 - 630 pages
...Schweifreimverse) , die hier richtiger als daktylische zu bezeichnen sind , stets mit klingenden Endungen: Fair stood the wind for France, When we our sails advance, Nor note to prove our chance Longer will tarry; But putting to the main, At Kaux, the mouth of Seine, With... | |
 | English language - 1889 - 276 pages
...such as came to assayle them; the batayle ended about evynsonge tyme. XLVI.-TEE BATTLE OF AGINC OURT1. FAIR stood the wind for France When we our sails advance, Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry; But, putting to the main, At Kaux, the mouth of Seine, With all his martial train, Landed... | |
 | English language - 1889 - 264 pages
...came to assayle them ; the batayle ended about evynsonge tyme. XLVI.-THE BATTLE OF AGIXCOURT. 1. FATE stood the wind for France When we our sails advance, Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry ; But, putting to the main, At Kaux, the mouth of Seine, With all his martial train, Landed... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - American poetry - 1890 - 976 pages
...grant, henceforth, that foul debate 'Twixt noblemen may cease ! ANONYMOUS. îh,e Ltiillub of Tlgincmirt. FAIR stood the wind for France, When we our sails advance, Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry ; But putting to the main. At Kaux, the mouth of Seine, With all his martial train, Landed... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - American poetry - 1890 - 342 pages
...England. Here the English gained a great victory over the Scotch in 1402. THE BALLAD OF AGINCOURT.1 FAIR stood the wind for France, When we our sails advance, Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry ; But putting to the main,2 At Kaux,3 the mouth of Seine, With all his martial train, Landed... | |
 | Blanche Wilder Bellamy, Maud Wilder Goodwin - Readers - 1890 - 402 pages
...game's a-foot ; Follow your spirit, and upon this charge, THE BATTLE OF AGINCOURT. MICHAEL DRAYTON. FAIR stood the wind for France When we our sails advance, Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry ; But putting to the main, At Kaux, the mouth of Seine, With all his martial train, Landed... | |
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FAIR stood the wind for France When we our sails advance, Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry; But putting to the main, At Caux, the mouth of Seine, With all his martial train, Landed King Harry. 
