 | Herbert Spencer - Philosophy - 1892 - 500 pages
...plain: loud, rough, and dark in battle meet Lochlin and Inisfail. * * * As the noise of the troubled ocean when roll the waves on high; as the last peal of the thunder of heaven; such is the din of war." Except in the position of the verb in the first two similes, the theoretically best arrangement... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Publishers - Books and reading - 1893 - 444 pages
...! and lovely are thy children, and lovely are the prints of thy footsteps in the green valleys. 2. Steel clanging sounded on steel Helmets are cleft...peal of the thunder of heaven— such is the noise of battle. 3. Like leaves on trees the life of man is found,— Now green in y<5uth, now withering on... | |
 | George Lansing Raymond, George Post Wheeler - English language - 1893 - 224 pages
...spears fall like circles of light which gild the stormy face of night. " As the noise of the troubled ocean when roll the waves on high, as the last peal of thundering heaven, such is the noise of battle. Though Cormac's hundred bards were there, feeble were... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - Celts - 1900 - 490 pages
...mix and roar on the plain ; loud, rough and dark in battle meet Lochlin and Innisfail. Chief mixes his strokes with chief, and man with man ; steel,...are cleft on high. Blood bursts and smokes around. Strings twang on the polished yews. Darts rush along the sky. Spears fall like the circles of light... | |
 | William Vincent Byars - Orators - 1901 - 610 pages
...meet and mix, and roar on the plain : loud> rough, and dark in battle meet Lochlin and Inisfail. ... As the troubled noise of the ocean when roll the waves...peal of the thunder of heaven; such is the noise of the battle." Except in the position of the verb in the first two similes, the theoretically best arrangement... | |
 | W. V. Byars - Oratory - 1901 - 616 pages
...meet and mix, and roar on the plain : loud rough, and dark in battle meet Lochlin and Inisfail. ... As the troubled noise of the ocean when roll the waves...peal of the thunder of heaven; such is the noise of the battle.» Except in the position of the verb in the first two similes, the theoretically best arrangement... | |
 | 1901 - 452 pages
...Lochlin and Innis-fail. Chief mixes his strokes with chief, and man with man; steel, clanging, sounds on steel. Helmets are cleft on high. Blood bursts and smokes around. Strings murmur on the polished yews. Darts rush along the sky. Spears fall like the circles of light,... | |
 | Alfred Biese - Nature - 1905 - 394 pages
...when it shines to the beam of the west. Thy breasts are two smooth rocks seen from Branno of streams. As the troubled noise of the ocean when roll the waves...peal of the thunder of heaven, such is the noise of battle. As autumn's dark storms pour from two echoing hills, towards each other approached the heroes.... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - Literary style - 1905 - 390 pages
...meet and mix, and roar on the plain : loud, rough, and dark in battle meet Lochlin and Inisfail. ... As the troubled noise of the ocean when roll the waves...as the last peal of the thunder of heaven ; such is noise of the battle. Except in the position of the verb in the first two similes, the theoretically... | |
 | Alfred Biese - Nature - 1905 - 394 pages
...rising hill. fc* the beam of the west. Thy breasts are two smooth rocks seen from Branno of streams. As the troubled noise of the ocean when roll the waves on high ; as the last peal of the 1 1 mn<jcr of heaven, such is the noise of battle. As autumn's dark storms pour from two echoing hills,... | |
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As the troubled noise of the ocean when roll the waves on high ; as the last peal of the thunder of heaven ; such is the noise of battle. 
