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" With, visage grim, stern looks, and blackly hued; In his right hand a naked sword he had, That to the hilts was all with blood imbrued; And in his left, that kings and kingdoms rued, Famine and fire he held, and therewithal He razed towns and threw down... "
The History of English Poetry: From the Close of the Eleventh Century to the ... - Page 173
by Thomas Warton - 1840 - 536 pages
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Prolusions: Or, Select Pieces of Antient Poetry,--compil'd with Great Care ...

Edward Capell - 1760 - 284 pages
...had, that to the hilts was all with blood imbru'd ; and in his left (that kings and kingdoms ru'd) famine and fire he held, and therewithal he razed towns, and threw down towers and all : cities he fack'd ; and realms (that whilom flower'd in honour, glory, and rule, above the reft) he overwhelm'd,...
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The History of English Poetry from the Close of the Eleventh to the ...

Thomas Warton - 1781 - 620 pages
...glittering arms yclad, With vifage grim, ftern look'd, and blaekly hucd : In his right hand a naked fword he had, That to the hilts was all with blood imbrued...razed towns, and threw down towers and all : Cities he fack'd, and realms (that whilom flower'd In honour, glory', and rule, above the reft) He overwhelm'd,...
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Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions ..., Volumes 9-10

Sir Egerton Brydges - 1809 - 914 pages
...the sinew, and the vein. Lastly stood WAR, in glittering arimyclad, With visage grim, stern looks, and blackly hued, In his right hand a naked sword he had, That to the hilts was all with blood embrued ; And in his left, that kings and kingdoms rued, Famine and fire he held, and therewithal He...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and ..., Volume 14

William Shakespeare - 1809 - 378 pages
...bosom. " Stand not to answer : Here, take thou the hilts." Again, in The Mirror fur Magistrates, 1587: " a naked sword he had, " That to the hilts was all with blood imbrued." Mr. Rowe and the other modern editors read, agreeably to the language of the present time, — my sword's...
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Select Beauties of Ancient English Poetry, Volume 1

Henry Headley - 1810 - 246 pages
...stood War, in glittering arms yclad, With visage grim, stem looks, and blackly hued, In his right band a naked sword he had, That to the hilts was all with blood embrued: And in his left (that kings and kingdoms rued) Famine and fire he held, and therewithal He...
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The Ruminator: Containing a Series of Moral, Critical, and ..., Volume 2

Sir Egerton Brydges - 1813 - 350 pages
...and highly poetical line! Lastly stood WAR, in glittering arms yclad, With visage grim, stern looks, and blackly hued, In his right hand a naked sword he had, That to the hilts was all with blood embrued ; And in his left, that kings and kingdoms rued, Famine and fire he held, and therewithal He...
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The Ruminator: Containing a Series of Moral, Critical, and ..., Volume 2

Sir Egerton Brydges - 1813 - 354 pages
...line! Lastly stood WAR, in glittering arms yclad, With visage grim, stern looks, and blackly hned, In his right hand a naked sword he had, That to the hilts was all with blood embrued ; And in his left, that kings and kingdoms rued, Famine and fire he held, and therewithal He...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the ..., Volume 16

William Shakespeare - 1813 - 446 pages
..." Stand not to answer ; here, take thou the hilts." Again, in The Mirror for Magistrates, 1587 : " a naked sword he had, " That to the hilts was all with blood imbrued." Mr; Rowe and the other modern editors read, agreeably to the language of the present time, — my sword's...
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Kentish Poets: A Series of Writers in English Poetry, Natives ..., Volumes 1-2

Rowland Freeman - 1821 - 846 pages
...blackly-hued ; In bis right hand a naked sword he had, That to the hilt was all with blood embrued : And in his left, that kings and kingdoms rued. Famine and fire he held, and therewithall He razed towns, and threw down towers and all. Cities he sacked, and realms that whilome...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 12

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 454 pages
...Take him over the costard with the hills of thy sword." Again, in The Mirror for Magistrates, 1587 : " a naked sword he had, " That to the hilts was all with blood imbrued." Mr. Rowe and the other modern editors read, aq^reeably to the language of the present time,—my sword's...
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