Surveying from aloft the limpid ford, The massive fane, the sylvan avenue — Whose hospitality I proved myself, A willing leader in no impious war When fame and freedom urged me — or mayst dwell In Reynosas... The Victorian Age of English Literature - Page 88by Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret), Francis Romano Oliphant - 1892Full view - About this book
| Walter Savage Landor - 1812 - 176 pages
...and poverty retire, Intractable to them, and valueless, And look'd at idly, like the face of heaven. If strength be wanted for security, Mountains the...marble-turreted, Surveying from aloft the limpid ford, The massy fane, the sylvan avenue — • Whose hospitality I proved myself, A willing leader in no impious... | |
| John Forster - 1869 - 726 pages
...tragedy, when its hero, in arms against his countrymen, is praising their simplicity of character : — " If strength be wanted for security, Mountains the...Whose hospitality I proved myself, A willing leader m no impious war When fame and freedom urged me ; or mayst dwell In Rcynosa's dry and thriftless dale,... | |
| John Forster - 1869 - 558 pages
...tragedy, when its hero, in arms against his countrymen, is praising their simplicity of character : " If strength be wanted for security, Mountains the...With iron-pointed and uplifted gates, Thou wilt be weleome too in Aguilar, Impenetrable, marble -turreted, Surveying from aloft the limpid ford, The massive... | |
| John Forster - 1869 - 716 pages
...tragedy, when its hero, in arms against his i.juatrvmen, is praising their simplicity of character : — " If strength be wanted for security. Mountains the guard, forbidding all approach With iron-pointed mid uplifted pites, Thou wilt be welcome too in Aguilar, Impenetrable, marble-turreted, Sun-eying from... | |
| Sidney Colvin - 1881 - 248 pages
...where Santona leans against the hill, Hidden from sea and land by groves and bowers. And again,— If strength be wanted for security, Mountains the...Thou wilt be welcome too in Aguilar, Impenetrable, marble-tnrreted, Surveying from aloft the limpid ford, The massive fane, the sylvan avenue ; Whose... | |
| Sidney Colvin - 1881 - 250 pages
...where Santona leans against the hill, Hidden from sea and land by groves and bowcra." And again — " If strength be wanted for security, Mountains the...With iron-pointed and uplifted gates, Thou wilt be weleome too in Aguilar, Impenetrable, marble-turreted, Surveying from aloft the limpid ford, The massive... | |
| Walter Savage Landor - 1892 - 410 pages
...poverty retire, • Intractable to them and valueless, 1 80 And lookt at idly like the face of heaven. If strength be wanted for security, Mountains the...sylvan avenue ; Whose hospitality I proved myself, Ar willing leader in no impious war i go When fame and freedom urged me ; or mayst dwell In Reynosa's... | |
| Arthur Symons - 1909 - 372 pages
...within measured Miltonic limits, for dramatic speech, or even for lifelike dialogue ; thus : — ' If strength be wanted for security, Mountains the...welcome too in Aguilar, Impenetrable, marble-turreted.' Yet there are moments when the Miltonic speech becomes, as it can become, nakedly dramatic : — '... | |
| Arthur Symons - 1909 - 362 pages
...within measured Miltonic limits, for dramatic speech, or even for lifelike dialogue ; thus : — ' If strength be wanted for security, Mountains the...welcome too in Aguilar, Impenetrable, marble-turreted.' Yet there are moments when the Miltonic speech becomes, as it can become, nakedly dramatic : — '... | |
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