 | Victor von Arentsschild - 1851 - 588 pages
...dwell, "Were burnt for beacons; cities were consumed, And men were gathered round their blazing home? To look once more into each other's face; Happy were those who dwelt within the eye Of the voléanos, and their mountain-torch ; A fearful hope was all the world contained: Foreets were set... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 492 pages
...face ; Happy were those who dwelt within the eye Of the •'" volcanoes and their mountain torch. 3. A fearful hope was all the world contain'd ; Forests...hour, They fell and faded, and the crackling trunks Extinguished with a crash ; and all wsis black. The brows of men, by the unearthly light, Wore an unearthly... | |
 | J H. Aitken - 1853 - 378 pages
...Were burned for beacons ; the cities were consumed, And men were gathered round their blazing homes To look once more into each other's face ; Happy were those who dwelt within the eye Of the volcanoes, and their mountain-torch. A fearful hope was all the world contained : Forests were set... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1854 - 320 pages
...dwell, Were burnt for beacons ; cities were consumed, And men were gather'd round their blazing homes To look once more into each other's face ; Happy were...mountain-torch : A fearful hope was all the world contaiu'd ; Forests were set on fire — but hour by hour They fell and faded — and the crackling... | |
 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 pages
...dwell, Were burnt for beacons ; cities were consumed, And men were gathered round their bla/ing homes To look once more into each other's face ; . Happy were those who dwelt within the eye Of the volcanoes, and their mountain torch : A fearful hope was all the world contained ; Forests were set... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1854 - 352 pages
...dwell, Were burnt for beacons ; cities were consumed, And men were gather'd round their blazing homes To look once more into each other's face; Happy were those who dwelt within the eyp Of the volcanos, and their mountain torch : A fearful hope was all the world contain'd ; Forests... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - 1855 - 444 pages
...moun,tain-torch. | A fearful hope was all the world contain'^ ; | Forests were set on fire* ; | and hour by hour They fell and fa'ded — | and the crackling trunks | Extinguish'd with a crash1, — I and all was blacA^. | The brows of men, by the despairing light, | Wore an unearthly... | |
 | Robley Dunglison - 1856 - 768 pages
...bands of sleep asunder ; And rouse him like a rattling peal of thunder," and in Byron's " Darkness," " Forests were set on fire — but hour by hour They fell and faded — and the crackling trunks Kxtinguish'd with a crash — and all was black."* /. Singing. The singing voice differs from other... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1857 - 456 pages
...dwell, Were burnt for ^beacons; cities were + consum'd, And men were gather'd round their blazing homes To look once more into each other's face; Happy were those who dwelt within the eye Of the + volcanoes and their mountain torch. 3. A fearful hope was all the world contain'd; Forests were set... | |
 | Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 pages
...dwell, Were burnt for beacons ; cities were consumed, And men were gathered round their blazing homes To look once more into each other's face ; Happy were those who dwelt within the eye Of the volcanoes, and their mountain-torch : A fearful hope was all the world contained ; Forests were set... | |
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The palaces of crowned kings - the huts, The habitations of all things which dwell, Were burnt for beacons; cities were consumed, And men were gather'd round their blazing homes To look once more into each other's face. Happy were those who dwelt within... 
