 | John Young - 1810 - 432 Seiten
...too — but it avails not speaking of * him.' — Kenilworth, vol. ii. ch. 10. The two lines — " O for a blast of that dread horn, On Fontarabian echoes borne — '' Marmion, Canto vi. St. 33. are copied almost word for word in the verses of Francis Osbaldistone,... | |
 | 1831 - 1044 Seiten
...sooner said than done. Bob Howie is buried — and the whole School is trampling on its Master ! " Oh, for a blast of that dread horn, On Fontarabian echoes borne, That to King Charles did come, AVhen Rowland brave and Olivier, And every paladin and peer, On Koncesvalles died !" The smothered... | |
 | John Leycester Adolphus - 1822 - 340 Seiten
...too ' — but it avails not speaking of him.' — Kenilworth, vol. ii. ch. 10. The two lines — " O for a blast of that dread horn, On Fontarabian echoes borne — " Marmion, Canto VI. St. S3. are copied almost word for word in the verses of Francis Osbaldistone,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 430 Seiten
...Unbroken, fought in desperate ring. Where's now their victor vaward wing, Where Huntly, and where Home ?— O, for a blast of that dread horn, On Fontarabian echoes borne, On saints and heavenly bliss ! — By many a sinner's bed I've been, And many a dismal parting seen,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1847 - 362 Seiten
...Just now enough ; but by and by I'll prattle Like Roland's horn(') in Roncesvalles' battle. (1) [" O for a blast of that dread horn. On Fontarabian echoes borne, That to King Charles did come, \Vliru Rowland brave, and Olivier, And every paladin and peer, On Roncesvalles died," — 3/arfntc»jJ... | |
 | 1854 - 778 Seiten
...sec. xxxiii., from which the accomplished poet and novelist repeated inadvertently his own verses : " O for a blast of that dread horn, On Fontarabian echoes borne, That to King Charles did come," &c. I say " inadvertently " from my own knowledge. A few months after the well-known occurrence at... | |
 | Mrs. Markham - 1863 - 646 Seiten
...the song my aunt Lucy sometimes sings, which begins, Sad and fearful was the story of the Roncevalles fight, On that fatal field of glory perished many...knight. George. And I, too, was ready to exclaim, from " Mar mion," 01 for a blast of that dread horn On Fontarabian echoes borne, That to King Charles did... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 Seiten
...Charge, Chester, charge ! on, Stanley, on ! " Were the last words of Marmion. Canto vi. Stanza 32. O for a blast of that dread horn * On Fontarabian echoes borne. Canto vi. Stanza 33. To all, to each, a fair good night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. Canto... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1866 - 860 Seiten
...part indebted to the Spanish. It begins as follows : Sad and fearful is the story Of the Roncevalles fight ; On that fatal field of glory Perished many a gallant knight. Nor can you have forgotten the beautiful opening of that poem, one of the very finest of its class,... | |
 | Mrs. Markham - 1867 - 570 Seiten
...Sud and fearful was the story of the Iloncevallcs fight, On that fatal field of glory perished muny a gallant knight. George. And I, too, was ready to exclaim, from ' Marmion,' 0 ! for one blast of that dreiul horn On Fontarabian echoes b'.rne, That to King Charles did come ;... | |
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By this, though deep the evening fell, Still rose the battle's deadly swell, For still the Scots, around their King, Unbroken, fought in desperate ring. 
