The Vision of Don Roderick: A PoemJames Ballantyne and Company, 1811 - 128 pages A poem to celebrate the victories of the Duke of Wellington during the Peninsular War. |
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... squadrons shake the echoing mead , Lacks not artillery breathing flame and night , Nor the fleet ordnance whirl'd by rapid steed , That rivals lightning's flash in ruin and in speed . LVIII . A various host - from kindred realms they ...
... squadrons shake the echoing mead , Lacks not artillery breathing flame and night , Nor the fleet ordnance whirl'd by rapid steed , That rivals lightning's flash in ruin and in speed . LVIII . A various host - from kindred realms they ...
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... squadron on squadron pour , Legion on legion on thy foeman roll , And weary out his arm - thou canst not quell his soul . X. O vainly gleams with steel Agueda's shore , Vainly thy squadrons hide Assuava's plain , And front the flying ...
... squadron on squadron pour , Legion on legion on thy foeman roll , And weary out his arm - thou canst not quell his soul . X. O vainly gleams with steel Agueda's shore , Vainly thy squadrons hide Assuava's plain , And front the flying ...
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... bloody field of battle won , Though Gaul's proud legions rolled like mist away , Was half his self - devoted valour shown , - He gaged but life on that illustrious day ; But when he toiled those squadrons to array , Who 7 66 CONCLUSION .
... bloody field of battle won , Though Gaul's proud legions rolled like mist away , Was half his self - devoted valour shown , - He gaged but life on that illustrious day ; But when he toiled those squadrons to array , Who 7 66 CONCLUSION .
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A Poem Walter Scott. But when he toiled those squadrons to array , Who fought like Britons in the bloody game , Sharper than Polish pike or assagay , He braved the shafts of censure and of shame , And , dearer far than life , he pledged ...
A Poem Walter Scott. But when he toiled those squadrons to array , Who fought like Britons in the bloody game , Sharper than Polish pike or assagay , He braved the shafts of censure and of shame , And , dearer far than life , he pledged ...
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... squadrons hide Assuava's plain , And front the flying thunders as they roar , With frantic charge and tenfold odds , in vain ! St. X. p . 63 . In the severe action of Fuentes d'Honoro , up- on 5th May , 1811 , the grand mass of the ...
... squadrons hide Assuava's plain , And front the flying thunders as they roar , With frantic charge and tenfold odds , in vain ! St. X. p . 63 . In the severe action of Fuentes d'Honoro , up- on 5th May , 1811 , the grand mass of the ...
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ancient Andalusia Arabs arms army bade BALLANTYNE band Barosa battle won beneath BERESFORD blazed blood bold Bolero British Britons burst cavalry cave cavern censer Christians Count Julian crest cried dark desperate Don Roderick dread EDINBURGH Edition enemy fame fatal fate fear fell field fight fire flame Florinda's flung foes French Fuentes d'Honoro Galicia gallant Gothic Goths GRÆME Grenada grey-hair'd harp hath headlong rage heard heart heaven honour Kilsyth king land legions light Massena Merlin mingled minstrel minstrelsy Monarch's Moors mountains Muchacha ne'er noise Note o'er Oppas Orelia Patriot Pausayl Poem Portugal Prelate proud ranks Recisundo renowned roar ruins rung Saracens scene Scotland shout shriek siege slain soldiers Spain Spaniards Spanish squadrons stern sword tale Tarik Tecbir thine thou hast throne thunders Toledo tower tradition treason Tweed valour verse victory VIII VISION OF DON wall WALTER SCOTT war-cry warrior wild Zaragoza
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Page 109 - Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.
Page 108 - A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains : a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations. 3 A fire devoureth before them ; and behind them a flame burneth : the land « as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness ; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Page 109 - They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks: neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded.
Page 108 - A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Page 109 - They shall run to and fro in the city, they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses, they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.
Page 102 - Most gloriously have the citizens of Zaragoza proved that the true army of Spain, in a contest of this nature, is the whole people. The same city has also exemplified a melancholy, yea, a dismal truth — yet consolatory and full of joy — that, when a people are called suddenly to fight for their liberty, and are sorely pressed upon, their best field of battle is the floors upon which their children have played ; the chambers where the family of each man has slept...