Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" Whitford, keep near the walls ! Huggins, regard your own behoof. For, lo ! the blazing rocking roof Down, down in thunder falls ! An awful pause succeeds the stroke, And o'er the ruins volumed smoke, Rolling around its pitchy shroud, Concealed them from... "
The Port folio, by Oliver Oldschool - Page 415
Full view - About this book

English Literature of Nineteenth Century: On the Plan of the Author's ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1869 - 810 pages
...roof should fall. Back, Robins, baek ! Crump, stand aloof! Whitford, keep near the walls! Hugfrin*, regard your own behoof, For, lo ! the blazing rocking...pause succeeds the stroke, And o'er the ruins volumed .-moke, Rolling around its pitchy shroud, Conceal'd them from the astonish'd crowd. At length the mist...
Full view - About this book

Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, Volume 231

1871 - 910 pages
...terrified, are slow To bid the pumping torrent flow, For fear the roof should fall. Back, Robins, back! Crump, stand aloof! Whitford, keep near the walls...ruins volumed smoke, Rolling around its pitchy shroud, Concealed them from th' astonished crowd. VoL. VII., NS 1871. p P At length, the mist awhile was cleared,...
Full view - About this book

Rejected Addresses: And Other Poems

James Smith, Horace Smith - 1871 - 444 pages
...terrified are slow To bid the pumping torrent flow, For fear the roof should fall. Back, Robins, back! Crump, stand aloof! Whitford, keep near the walls...thunder falls ! An awful pause succeeds the stroke, And o7er the ruins volumed smoke, Rolling around its pitchy shroud, Conceal' d them from th? astonish'd...
Full view - About this book

Encyclopaedia of English and American Poetry: From Caedmon and ..., Volume 2

Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 782 pages
...terrified, are slow To bid the pumping torrent flow, For fear the roof should fall. Bock, Eobins, back ! ving laurel weave For those that win rooking roof Down, down in thunder falls ! An awful pause succeeds the stroke, And o'er the ruins volumed...
Full view - About this book

Amusing poetry, ed. by S. Brooks, Issue 845

Amusing poetry - 1874 - 340 pages
...terrified are slow To bid the pumping torrent flow, For fear the roof should fall. Back, Eobins, back ! Crump, stand aloof! Whitford, keep near the walls...succeeds the stroke, And o'er the ruins volumed smoke, Eoiling around its pitchy shroud, Conceal'd them from the astonish'd crowd. At length the mist awhile...
Full view - About this book

Cassell's illustrated readings, Volume 1; Volume 66

Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 452 pages
...terrified, are slow To bid the pumping torrent flow, For fear the roof should fall. Back, Robins, back ! Crump, stand aloof! Whitford, keep near the walls...ruins volumed smoke, Rolling around its pitchy shroud, Concealed them from the astonished crowd. At length the mist awhile was cleared, When, lo ! amid the...
Full view - About this book

Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 860 pages
...terrified, are slow To bid the pumping torrent flow, For fear the roof should fall. Back, Robins, back ! The minstrel is thus described : The Aged Minstrel....harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orp Concealed them from the astonished crowd. At length the mist awhile was cleared, When To ! amid the...
Full view - About this book

A New Library of Poetry and Song, Volume 2

William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 576 pages
...the pumping torrent flow, For fear the roof should fall. Back, Robins, back ! Crump, stand aloof I Whitford, keep near the walls ! Huggins, regard your...ruins volumed smoke, Rolling around its pitchy shroud, Concealed them from the astonished crowd. At length the mist awhile was cleared, When, lo ! amid the...
Full view - About this book

Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pages
...the pumping torrent flow, For fear the roof should fall. Back, Robins, back ! Crump, stand aloof 1 although wetted by the rain, which poured from a...I continued walking in this manner for some time, 1 An awful pause succeeds the stroke, And o'er the ruins volumed smoke. Rolling around its pitchy shroud,...
Full view - About this book

Rogers to Hemans

Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 828 pages
...terrified are slow To bid the pumping torrent flow, For fear the roof should fall. Back, Robins, back ! est the chalice rear. The damsel dbnn'd her kirtle sheen ; The hall was dress'd with holy g 1 the blazing rocking roof Down, down, in thunder falls ! An awful pause succeeds the stroke, And o'er...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF