 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 ページ
...height, He rushed against Horatius, And smote with all his might. With shield and blade Horatius Right deftly turned the blow. The blow, though turned, came...joyful cry To see the red blood flow. He reeled, and on Hcrminius He leaned one breathing-space, Then, like a wild-cat mad with wounds, Sprang right at Astur's... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 206 ページ
...height, He rushed against Horatius, And smote with all his might. With shield and blade Horatius Right deftly turned the blow. The blow, though turned, came...Tuscans raised a joyful cry To see the red blood flow. 45. He reeled, and on Herminius He leaned one breathing-space ; Then, like a wild cat mad with wounds,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 438 ページ
...height, He rushed against Horatius, And smote with all his might. With shield and blade Horatius Right deftly turned the blow. The blow, though turned, came...Tuscans raised a joyful cry To see the red blood flow. 45. He reeled, and on Herminius He leaned one breathing-space; Then, like a wild cat mad with wounds,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 ページ
...Right deftly turn'd the blow. The blow, though turn'd, came yet too ni It miss'd his helm, but gnsh'd his thigh : The Tuscans raised a joyful cry To see the red blood flow. He reel'd, and on Herminius He leaned one breathing-space ; Then, like a wild-cat mad with wounds, Sprang... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 ページ
...deftly turn'd the blow. The blow, though turn'd, came yet too nigh; It miss'd his helm, but gash'd his thigh : The Tuscans raised a joyful cry To see the red blood flow. He reel'd, and on Herminius He leaned one breathing-space ; Then, like a wild-cat mad with wounds, Sprang... | |
 | 1847 - 760 ページ
...blade Horatius Right deftly turned the blow ; The blow though turned came yet too nigh, It missed the helm, but gashed his thigh : The Tuscans raised a...joyful cry To see the red blood flow. He reeled, and on Hermiaius He leaned one breathing space, Then, like a wild cat mad with wounds, Sprung right at Astur's... | |
 | 1847 - 758 ページ
...height, He rushed against Horatius, And smote with all his might. With shield and blade Horatius Right deftly turned the blow ; The blow though turned came yet too nigh, It missed the helm, but gashed his thigh : The Tuscans raised a joyful cry To see the red blood flow. He reeled,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1854 - 240 ページ
...height, He rushed against Horatius, And smote with all his might. With shield and blade Iloratius Right deftly turned the blow. The blow, though turned, came...The Tuscans raised a joyful cry To see the red blood flo\v. XLV. He reeled, and on Ilerminius He leaned one breathing-space ; Then, like a wild cat mad... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 206 ページ
...height, He rush'd against Horatius, And smote with all his might. With shield and blade Horatius Right deftly turned the blow. The blow, though turned, came...joyful cry To see the red blood flow. He reeled, and on Ilcrminius He leaned one breathing-space ; Then, like a wild cat mad with wounds, Sprang right at Astur's... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1860 - 612 ページ
...hight, He rushed against Ilorntius, And smote with all his might. With shield and blade lloratius Ri;;ht deftly turned the blow ; The blow, though turned,...Tuscans raised a joyful cry To see the red blood flow." We forbear to continue a quotation •which the reader's memory probably suppiics. For the same reason... | |
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Then, whirling up his broadsword With both hands to the height, He rushed against Horatius, And smote with all his might, With shield and blade Horatius Right deftly turned the blow, The blow, though turned, came yet too nigh; It missed his helm, but... 
