Oh evil was the root, and bitter was the fruit, And crimson was the juice of the vintage that we trod ; For we trampled on the throng of the haughty and the strong, Who sate in the high places, and slew the saints of God. Knight's Penny Magazine - Page 2231846Full view - About this book
| 1869 - 514 pages
...distinguished, in the very thick of the fight, those burly Roundheads from the dandy Cavaliers : For the man of blood was there, with his long essenced hair, And Astley, and Sir Mannadnke, and Rupert of the Rhine. Or, as Ireton's Obadiah anathematizes them : Fools ! your doublets... | |
| John William Carleton - 1869 - 516 pages
...distinguished, in the •very thick of the fight, those burly Roundheads from the dandy Cavaliers : For the man of blood was there, with his long essenced hair, And Astley, and Sir Mariuadake, and Rupert of the Rhine. Or, as Ireton's Obadiah anathematizes them : Fools I your doublets... | |
| Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1841 - 440 pages
...trampled on the throng of the haughty and the strong, Who sate in the high places and slew the saints of God. It was about the noon of a glorious day of...That we saw their banners dance and their cuirasses sliine, And the Man of Blood was there, with his long essenced hair, And Astley and Sir Marmaduke,... | |
| 1843 - 862 pages
...with the picture in " Naseby " of the advancing line of the cavaliers : " It -was about the noon of я glorious day of June, That we saw their banners dance, and their cuirasses shine: And the Man of Blood icas /here, with his long essenced hair, żliul Astlcy, and Sir Marmaduke, and Rupert of lite Rhine.''... | |
| Henry William Herbert - Great Britain - 1896 - 466 pages
...June, lacked but an hour of noon, When we saw their standards flutter and their cirirassses shine, The man of blood was there, with his long essenced...Astley, and Sir Marmaduke, and Rupert of the Rhine. MAOAULAY. AT an early hour of the following morning, while the east was yet gray with the lingering... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1860 - 374 pages
...trampled on the throng of the haughty and the strong, "Who sate in the high places, and slew the saints of God. It was about the noon of a glorious day of...Astley, and Sir Marmaduke, and Rupert of the Rhine. VOL. VII. 13 Like a servant of the Lord, with his Bible and his sword, The General rode along us to... | |
| Jane Anne Winscom - Great Britain - 1861 - 466 pages
...Lord Macaulay, to describe this battle, as follows : — " It was about the noon of a glorious day in June, That we saw their banners dance, and their cuirasses...Astley and Sir Marmaduke and Rupert of the Rhine. The furious German comes, with his clarion and his drums, His heroes of Alsatia and pages of Whitehall... | |
| Archibald Hamilton Bryce - 1862 - 344 pages
...trampled on the throng of the haughty and the strong, Who sate in the high places and slew the saints of God. It was about the noon of a glorious day of...Blood was there, with his long essenced hair, And Astiey and Sir Marmaduke and Rupert of the Rhine! When a murmuring sound broke out, and swelled into... | |
| John Alfred Langford - England - 1862 - 310 pages
...respective forces stood on the 14th of June, 1645. It is about ten o'clock in the morning ; and now — " Like a servant of the Lord, with his Bible and his sword, Dhe General rode along us to form us for the fight ; When a murmuring sound broke out, and swell'd... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - Readers - 1863 - 390 pages
...the throng of the haughty and the strong, Who sat in the high places, and slew the saints of God. 3. It was about the noon of a glorious day of June, That...there, with his long essenced hair, And Astley, and Sir Harmadukc, and Rupert of the Rhine. 4. Like a servant of the Lord, with his Bible and his sword, The... | |
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