| Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1827 - 112 pages
...slow step startled him. He grasped his blade As if a trumpet rang; but the bent form Of David entered, and he gave command In a low tone to his few followers,...The pall from the still features of his child, He bowed his head upon him, and broke forth In the resistless eloquence of woe. ' Alas! my noble boy,... | |
| John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 pages
...slow step startled him. He grasped his blade As if a trumpet rang; but the bent form Of David entered, and he gave command, In a low tone, to his few followers,...The pall from the still features of his child, He bowed his head upon him, and broke forth In the resistless eloquence of wo :— " Alas! my noble boy!... | |
| Samuel Kettell - 1829 - 432 pages
...slow step startled him. He grasp'd his blade As if a trumpet rang; but the bent form Of David enter'd, and he gave command In a low tone to his few followers,...him, and broke forth In the resistless eloquence of wo. ' Alas! my noble boy, that thou shouldst die! Thou, who wert made so beautifully fair! That death... | |
| John Pierpont - 1829 - 290 pages
...step startled him. He grasped his blade As if a trumpet rang ; but the bent form Of David entered, and he gave command, In a low tone, to his few followers,...The pall from the still features of his child, He bowed his head upon him, and broke forth In the resistless eloquence of wo : — " Alas ! my noble... | |
| Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1830 - 334 pages
...Brougham's figure had vanished ; his features seemed concentrated almost to a point ; he glanced He bowed his head upon him, and broke forth In the resistless eloquence of wo : — ' Alas ! my noble boy ! that thou shouldst die ! Thou, who wert made so beautifully fair !... | |
| Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1831 - 356 pages
...step startled him. He grasped his blade As if a trumpet rang ; but the bent form Of David entered, and he gave command, In a low tone, to his few followers,...The pall from the still features of his child, He bowed his head upon him, and broke forth In the resistless eloquence of wo: — ' Alas ! my noble boy... | |
| Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1831 - 356 pages
...step startled him. He grasped his blade . As if a trumpet rang; but the bent form Of David entered, and he gave command, In a low tone, to his few followers,...throwing off The sackcloth from his brow, and laying back He bowed his head upon him, and broke forth The pall from the still features of his child, In the resistless... | |
| John Pierpont - 1831 - 294 pages
...step startled him. He grasped his blade As if a trumpet rang ; but the bent form Of David entered, and he gave command, In a low tone, to his few followers,...still Till the last echo died : then, throwing off j The sackcloth from his brow, and laying back ' } The pall from the still features of his child, .-'.;... | |
| James Hedderwick - 1833 - 232 pages
...step startled him! — he grasp'd his blade, As if a trumpet rang; but the bent form Of David enter'd, and he gave command In a low tone to his few followers,...him, and broke forth In the resistless eloquence of wo. " Alas, my noble boy! — that thou should'st die! Thou, who wert made so beautifully fair —... | |
| Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1835 - 274 pages
...step startled him. He grasped his blade As if a trumpet rang ; but the bent form Of David entered, and he gave command, In a low tone, to his few followers,...The pall from the still features of his child, He bowed his head upon him, and broke forth In the resistless eloquence of wo : " Alas ! my noble boy!... | |
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