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" The horsemen and the footmen Are pouring in amain From many a stately market-place, From many a fruitful plain, From many a lonely hamlet, Which, hid by beech and pine, Like an eagle's nest, hangs on the crest Of purple Apennine; From lordly Volaterrae... "
Puck of Pook's Hill - Page 125
by Rudyard Kipling - 1906 - 277 pages
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 71

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1843 - 626 pages
...beech and pine, Like an eagle's nest, hangs on the crest Of purple Apennine ; From lordly Volaterrse, Where scowls the far-famed hold Piled by the hands of giants For godlike kings of old ; From seagirt Populonia, Whose sentinels descry Sardinia's snowy mountain-tops Fringing the southern...
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Lays of Ancient Rome

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English poetry - 1843 - 142 pages
...hamlet, Which, hid by beech and pine, Like an eagle's nest, hangs on the crest Of purple Apennine; 4. From lordly Volaterrae, Where .scowls the far-famed...Piled by the hands of giants For godlike kings of old; From seagirt Populonia, Whose sentinels descry Sardinia's snowy mountain-tops Fringing the southern...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 4

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 438 pages
...hamlet, Which, hid by beech and pine, Like an eagle's nest, hangs on the crest Of purple Apennine; 4. From lordly Volaterrae, Where scowls the far-famed...Piled by the hands of giants For godlike kings of old; From seagirt Populonia, Whose sentinels descry Sardinia's snowy mountain-tops Fringing the southern...
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Römische Briefe von einem Florentiner [A. von Reumont].

Alfred von Reumont - Rome (Italy) - 1844 - 564 pages
...lonely hamlet Which, hid by beech and pine, Like an eagle's nest, hangs on the crest Of purple Apennine; From lordly Volaterrae, Where scowls the farfamed...Piled by the hands of giants For godlike kings of old; From seagirt Populonia, Whose sentinels descry Sardinia's snowy mountain tops From the proud mart of...
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The Poets and Poetry of England, in the Nineteenth Century

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...beech and pine, Like an eagle's nest, hangs on the crest Of purple Appennine ; From lordly Volaterne, Where scowls the far-famed hold Piled by the hands of giants For godlike kings of old ; From seagirt Populonia, Whose sentinels descry Sardinia's snowy mountain-topa Fringing the southern...
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The Poets and Poetry of England: In the Nineteenth Century

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...beech and pine, Like an eagle's nest, hangs on the crest Of purple Appennine; From lordly Volatente, Where scowls the far-famed hold Piled by the hands of giants For godlike kings of old ; From seagirt Populonia, Whose sentinels descry Sardinia's snowy mountain-tops Fringing the southern...
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The Poetry and Poets of Britain: From Chaucer to Tennyson ; with ...

Daniel Scrymgeour - English poetry - 1850 - 596 pages
...Like an eagle's nest,8 hangs on the erest of pnrple Apennine ; From lordly Volaterne4, where seowls the far-famed hold Piled by the hands of giants for god-like kings of old ; From sea-girt Popnlonia,5 whose sentinels desery Sardinia's snowy monntain-tops fringing the sonthern...
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Lays of ancient Rome: with "Ivry" and "The armada" by Thomas Babington Macaulay

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Rome - 1851 - 260 pages
...beech and pine, Like an eagle's nest, hangs on the crest Of purple Apennine; From lordly Volaterrse, Where scowls the far-famed hold Piled by the hands of giants For godlike kings of old; From seagirt Populonia, Whose sentinels descry Sardinia's snowy mountain-tops Fringing the southern...
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Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, Illustrating the Arms, Arts, and ..., Volume 1

James Dennistoun - Art, Renaissance - 1851 - 530 pages
...a prompt issue of this petty quarrel. In a few days he overran the territory " Of lordly Volaterra, Where scowls the far-famed hold Piled by the hands of giants, For god-like kings of old ; " and from his quarters at Mazzola, within four miles of their 200 ITS INEXPLICABLE 1472. gates,...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 4

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1854 - 354 pages
...and pine, Like an eagle's nestiiangs on the crest Of purple Apennine ; 4. ' From lordly Volaterrse, Where scowls the far-famed hold Piled by the hands of giants For god-like kings of old ; From seagirt Populonia, Whose sentinels descry Sardinia's snowy mountain-tops Fringing the southern...
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