 | Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 256 sider
...hissed ; No child but screamed out curses, And shook its little fist. But the Consul's brow was sad, And the Consul's speech was low, And darkly looked...bridge goes down ; And if they once may win the bridge Then out spake brave Horatius, The captain of the gate : " To every man upon this earth Death cometh... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1875 - 660 sider
...shook its little fist xxvi. But the Consul's brow was sad, And the Consul's speech was low, And daik y looked he at the wall, And darkly at the foe. "Their...they once may win the bridge, What hope to save the tuwn ? " Then out spake brave Horntius, The captain of the gate: " To every man upon this earth Death... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 246 sider
...hissed ; No child but screamed out curses, And shook its little fist. But the Consul's brow was sad, And the Consul's speech was low, And darkly looked...Their van will be upon us Before the bridge goes down; Aud if they once may win the bridge Then out spake brave Horatius, The captain of the gate : " To every... | |
 | 1876 - 734 sider
...meet, yet neither speak a word. HORATIUS AT THE BRIDGE.— TB Mamulwj. TIIE Consul's brow was sad, and the Consul's speech was low, And darkly looked...the bridge, what hope to save the town?" Then out spoke brave Horatius, the Captain of the gate : " To every man upon this earth death cometh, soon or... | |
 | Anna Randall Diehl - 1876 - 458 sider
...-woman But spat toward him and hissed ; No child but screamed out curses, But the Consul's brow was sad, And the Consul's speech was low, And darkly looked...the bridge goes down ; And if they once may win the bridgft^. What hope to save the town ? " Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the gate : "... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 576 sider
...his eye, And saw the swarthy storm of dnst Rise fast along the sky. But the Consul's brow was sad, And the Consul's speech was low, And darkly looked he at the wall, And darkly at the foe : L 508 POEMS OF PATRIOTISM AND FREEDOM. " Their van will be upon us Before the bridge goes down ;... | |
 | 1879 - 458 sider
...this great deliverance, in the words of the consul of ancient Rome, in Macaulay's stirring poem : " And if they once may win the bridge, What hope to save the town ? " Meanwhile the elder Roebling had died, leaving behind him his estimates and the general plans of... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 sider
...his eye, And saw the swarthy storm of dust Rise fast along the sky. But the Consul's brow was sad, And the Consul's speech was low, And darkly looked...once may win the bridge, What hope to save the town I " Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the gate : " To every man upon this earth Death cometh... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1877 - 104 sider
...hissed, No child but screamed out curses, And shook its little fist. But the Consul's Lrow was sad, And the Consul's speech was low, And darkly looked...bridge goes down ; And if they once may win the bridge, Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate : " To every man upon this eartli Death cometh... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1877 - 286 sider
...Consul's speech was low, And darkly looked he at the wall, And darkly at the foe. " Their van will be apon us Before the bridge goes down ; And if they once may win the bridge What hupe to save the town ?" XXVII. Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the gate : " To every... | |
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But the Consul's brow was sad, And the Consul's speech was low, And darkly looked he at the wall, And darkly at the foe. "Their van will be upon us Before the bridge goes down; And if they once may win the bridge, What hope to save the town? 
