| 1808 - 416 pages
...— A light on Marmion's visage spread, And fired his glazing eye : With dying hand, above his head He shook the fragment of his blade, And shouted '...On, Stanley, on !' Were the last words of Marmion." P. 366. No painter, worthy of the name, can- read that description, and sleep till he has embodied... | |
| Walter Scott - 1808 - 526 pages
...— A light on Marmion's visage spread, And fired his glazing eye : With dying hand, above his head He shook the fragment of his blade, And shouted "...Stanley, on!",... Were the last words of Marmion. XXXIV. By this, though deep the evening fell, ,,-. \\ Still rose the battle's deadly swell, For still... | |
| 1808 - 596 pages
...visage spread, And fired his glazing eye : With dying hand, above his head He shook the. fragnjent of his blade, And shouted '< Victory ! — " Charge,...) On, Stanley, on !"• — Were the last words of Marjnion.' pp. 365, 366. We have not room for another quotation, and scarcely for another remark. In... | |
| Enos Bronson - 1809 - 494 pages
...— A light on Marmion's visage spread, And fired his glazing eye : With dying hand, above his head He shook the fragment of his blade, And shouted "...Stanley, on !". . . . Were the last words of Marmion." p. 366. The lady is now hurried away by the priest ; and the close of the day ia thus described, with... | |
| 1809 - 914 pages
...cry;— A light on Marmion's visage spread, And fired his glazing eye : With dying hand, above his head He shook the fragment of his blade, And shouted "...Stanley, on !". . . . Were the last words of Marmion." p. 366. The lady is now hurried away by the priest ; and the close of the day is thus described, with... | |
| Arthur Aikin - 1809 - 832 pages
...And iirtd his glazing i-ус : Willi ching hand, above his head He shook the fragment of his Made, .And shouted "Victory!— « Charge. Chester, charge! On, Stanley, on!'— Were the last words of Mai mien." We almost grudge to a knave guilty of forgery the glorious death of a Wolfe and a Nelson.... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 536 pages
...— A light on Marmion's visage spread, And fired his glazing eye : With dying hand, above his head He shook the fragment of his blade, And shouted "...Stanley, on !" . . . Were the last words of Marmion. CANTO vi. THE BATTLE. 367 XXXIII. By !*MS, though deep the evening fell, Still rose the battle's deadly... | |
| Joshua P. Slack - 1815 - 340 pages
...— A light on Marmion's visage spread, And fired his glazing eye : With dying hand, above his head He shook the fragment of his blade, And shouted "...On, Stanley, on ."' Were the last words of Marmion. Ode to Buonaparte, by LORD BYKON, I. 'TIS done — but yesterday a King ! And arm'd with kings to strive.... | |
| William Henry Ireland - 1815 - 362 pages
...while the words enlisted to form a jingle are strained and unpoetical in the extreme : witness " ' Charge, Chester, charge ! — on, Stanley, on !' — Were the last words of Mar-mi-on." In reply to which, one might well exclaim — Charge, Hazard, charge ! — Quack on, quack on! O !... | |
| Thomas Christopher Banks - 1817 - 254 pages
...— A light on Marmion's visage spread, And firM his glaring eye : With dying hand, above his head He shook the fragment of his blade, And shouted "Victory"...on, Stanley, on!" Were the last words of Marmion. As the Ballad of " The Hermit of WarkworfA" has been alluded to, with reference to a traditionary story... | |
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