 And still his name sounds stirring Unto the men of Rome, As the trumpet-blast that cries to them To charge the Volscian home ; And wives still pray to Juno For boys with hearts as bold As his who kept the bridge so well In the brave days of old.  The London University Magazine - Seite 3571842Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1888 - 344 Seiten
...Sibthorpius, A moment sternly stood, Then, with his armour on his back, He jumped into the flood. XIV. And in the nights of winter, When the cold north winds blow, And sweepers finm the pavement Are shovelling the snow ; When the crusted port is opened, And the camphine... | |
 | Joel Dorman Steele, Esther Baker Steele - 1885 - 330 Seiten
...this hero. They erected a statue in his honor, and gave him as much land as he could plow in a day. " And still his name sounds stirring Unto the men of...kept the bridge so well In the brave days of old." —Macaidajfe Lays. Poreenna now laid siege to the city. Then Mucius, a young noble, went to the Etruscan... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1885 - 224 Seiten
...made a molten image, And set it up on high, And there it stands unto this day To witness if I lie. 13. And still his name sounds stirring Unto the men of...kept the bridge so well In the brave days of old. 14. And in the nights of 'winter, When the cold north winds blow, And the long howling of the wolves... | |
 | Jane Andrews - 1885 - 280 Seiten
...Rome. CHAPTER IV. THE STORY OF HORATIUS, THE ROMAN BOY, WHOSE ANCESTOR "KEPT THE BRIDGE SO WELL." " And wives still pray to Juno, For boys with hearts...kept the bridge so well— In the brave days of old." SHALL we sail to Rome in a trireme ? But what is a trireme ? you will ask. Look at the picture at the... | |
 | Joel Dorman Steele, Esther Baker Steele - 1885 - 336 Seiten
...this hero. They erected a statue in his honor, and gave him as much land as he could plow in a day. " And still his name sounds stirring Unto the men of...the trumpet-blast that cries to them To charge the Volsclan home. And wives still pray to Juno For boys with hearts as bold As his who kept the bridge... | |
 | Jane Andrews - 1889 - 290 Seiten
...CHAPTER IV. THE STORY OF HORATIUS, THE ROMAN BOY, WHOSE ANCESTOR "KEPT THE BRIDGE SO WELL." " A nd wives still pray to Juno, For boys with hearts as bold As his who kept the bridge so well — In the bra^le days of old." SHALL we sail to Rome in a trireme ? But what is a trireme ? you will ask. Look... | |
 | Timothy Harley - 1885 - 326 Seiten
...cold in clime are cold in blood," we may be thankful that we do not hibernate eternally in the moon ; "and in the nights of winter, when the cold north winds blow," we may look up through the casement and " pity the sorrows of this poor old man." Mr. Baring-Gould... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1887 - 476 Seiten
...is written, In letters all of gold, How valiantly he kept the bridge In the brave days of old. Arid still his name sounds stirring , Unto the men of Rome, As the trumpet blast that cries to them To charge the Volscian home ; JOAN OP ARC. And wives still pray to... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1887 - 244 Seiten
...written, In letters all of gold, How valiantly he kept the bridge In the brave days of old. LXVII. And still his name sounds stirring Unto the men of...kept the bridge so well In the brave days of old. LXVIII. And in the nights of winter, When the cold north winds blow, And the long howling of the wolves... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1887 - 250 Seiten
...written, In letters all of gold, How valiantly he kept the bridge In the brave days of old. LXVII. And still his name sounds stirring Unto the men of...kept the bridge so well In the brave days of old. LXVIII. And in the nights of winter, When the cold north winds blow, And the long howling of the wolves... | |
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