 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1875 - 752 pages
...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 ? " XXVII. Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate : " To every man upon this earth... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 240 pages
...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 P " Then, out spake brave Horatius, The captain of the gate : " To every man upon this earth Death... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1875 - 660 pages
...speech was low, And daik y 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 tuwn ? " Then out spake brave Horntius, The captain of the gate: " To every man upon this earth Death... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 246 pages
...the foe. " 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 man upon this earth Death conieth soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers,... | |
 | 1876 - 564 pages
...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, XXVIL Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate : "To every man upon this earth Death... | |
 | 1876 - 732 pages
...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...the bridge, what hope to save the town?" Then out spoke brave Horatins, the Captain of the gate : " To every man upon this earth death cometh, soon or... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 576 pages
...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 ; And if they 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... | |
 | 1876 - 734 pages
...bridge goes down ; And if they once may win 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 late. Hew down the bridge, Sir Consul, with all the speed ye may; I, with two more to help me, will hold... | |
 | 1879 - 458 pages
...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... | |
 | Anna Randall Diehl - 1876 - 458 pages
...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 bridgft^. What hope to save the town ? " Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the gate : "... | |
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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? 
