With visage grim, stern look, 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. To which are prefixed, three dissertations ... - Page 195 by Thomas Warton - 1840 Full view -
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