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The History of English Poetry, from the Close of the Eleventh to the ... - Page 55
by Thomas Warton - 1824 - 482 pages
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Complete Glossary to the Poetry and Prose of Robert Burns: With Upwards of ...

John Cuthbertson - 1886 - 486 pages
...Chase. The red blude gan out glyde. — Sir Guy. They are less Muddy than ever they were. — De Mornay. In his right hand a naked sword he had, That to the hiltes was al with Hud embrewed. The Mirrourfor Magistrates. Bluntie. A sniveller ; a stupid fellow....
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American Anthropologist, Volume 4

1891 - 432 pages
...the sinew, and the vein. 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 hilt was all with blood imbrued ; And in his left (that kings and kingdoms rued), Famine and fire he...
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The Classic and the Beautiful from the Literature of Three ..., Volume 1

Henry Coppée - 1893 - 560 pages
...flesh, the sinew and the vein. Lastly stood War, in glittering arms yclad, With visage grim, stern look and blackly hued ; In his right hand a naked sword...razed towns, and threw down towers and all. Cities he sacked, and realms that whilom flowered In honor, glory and rule above the rest He overwhelmed, and...
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Soldiering in India

Robert George Hobbes - 1893 - 594 pages
...He seems described in the personification of War by Sackville : — " With visage grim, stern look, and blackly hued, In his right hand a naked sword he had, That to the hilt was all with blood imbrued, And in his left (that kings and kingdoms rued) Famine and fire he...
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Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious ..., Volume 1873

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 794 pages
...the land ? SIR J. DENHAM. Lastly stood War, in glittering arms yclad, With visage grim, stern look, and blackly hued; In his right hand a naked sword...imbrued ; And in his left (that kings and kingdoms raedi Famine and fire he held, and therewithal He razed towns and threw down towers and all. Cities...
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The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature ...: A Biographical ..., Volume 20

John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 704 pages
...poverty. THE SPECTRE OF WAR. Lastly stood War, in glittering arms yclad, With visage grim, stern look, and blackly hued ; In his right hand a naked sword...razed towns, and threw down towers and all. Cities he sacked, and realms (that whilom flowered In honor, glory, and rule above the rest) He overwhelmed,...
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The Spencer Anthology: 1548-1591 A. D.

Edward Arber - 1899 - 336 pages
...the sinew, and the vein. 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 Ridpath Library of Universal Literature: A Biographical and ..., Volume 20

John Clark Ridpath - 1903 - 542 pages
...poverty. THE SPECTRE OF WAR. Lastly stood War, in glittering arms yclad, With visage grim, stern look, and blackly hued ; In his right hand a naked sword...razed towns, and threw down towers and all. Cities he sacked, and realms (that whilom flowered In honor, glory, and rule above the rest) He overwhelmed,...
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The Oxford Treasury of English Literature...: Old English to Jacobean

Grace Eleanor Hadow, William Henry Hadow - 1906 - 376 pages
...the sinew, and the vein. Lastly, stood War, in glittering arms yclad, With visage grim, stern looks, and blackly hued ; In his right hand a naked sword...had, That to the hilts was all with blood imbrued ; 340 And in his left (that kings and kingdoms rued) Famine and fire he held, and therewithal He razed...
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English Poetry (1170-1892).

John Matthews Manly - 1907 - 616 pages
...sinew, and the vein. 385 Lastly stood War, in glittering arms y-clad, 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 391...
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