 | Harris H. Beecher - 1866 - 908 oldal
...glittering sabres, waving banners, and battle flags all tattered and torn, everywhere met the view. , " 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life. One glance at their array." One would suppose there was force enough here to whip out all rebeldom, especially to swallow up and... | |
 | Frank Moore - 1867 - 620 oldal
...their sword-hilts, with quick tramp of hoofs and clang of steel, honor leading and glory awaiting them, the young soldiers flew forward, each brave rider...one huge creature, enormous, terrible, irresistible. ' 'Twerc worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array.' reel and fall, but the troop... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1867 - 416 oldal
...silken flags ; and the scene ever changing with the involutions and evolutions of the vast host! " 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array !" To us the spectacle was thrilling and glorious : to the enemy it must have given point to the scripture... | |
 | Society of the Army of the Tennessee - 1877 - 554 oldal
...scene by words or picture, yet he fully realizes the feeling described by the Scottish bard: • O tf " 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life One glance at their array." The siege of Corinth followed the battle of Shiloh. Here the discomfited enemy placed himself behind... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1867 - 370 oldal
...silken flags ; and the scen-.e ever changing with the involutions and evolutions ol the vast host ! " 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array !" To us the spectacle was thrilling and glorious : to the enemy it must have given point to the scripture?... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1867 - 374 oldal
...silken flags ; and the scene ever changing with the involutions and evolutions of the vast host! " 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array !" To us the spectacle was thrilling and glorious: to the enemy it must have given point to the scripture... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - 536 oldal
...Saxon war, That up the lake comes winding far! To hero bound for battle-strife, Or bard of martial lay, Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array! * See Note 46. XVI. " Their light-arm'd archers far and near Survey'd the tangled ground, Their centre... | |
 | 1868 - 510 oldal
...war, That up the lake comes winding far ! ;__ To hero bonne for battle strife, Or bard of martial lay, 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array. Their light-armed archers far and near Surveyed the tangled ground ; Their centre ranks, with pike... | |
 | Charles Bilton - 1868 - 216 oldal
...war, That up the lake comes winding far ! To hero boune for battle-strife, Or bard of martial lay, "Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array ! Their light-armed archers far and near, Surveyed the tangled ground, Their centre ranks, with pike... | |
 | Chicago (Ill.). Executive Committee for the Army Reunion, 1868 - 1869 - 376 oldal
...portray the scene by words or picture, yet he fully realizes the feeling described by the Scottish bard, '"Twere worth ten years of peaceful life One glance at their array." The seige of Corinth followed the battle of Shiloh. Here the discomfited enemy placed himself behind... | |
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I see the dagger-crest of Mar, I see the Moray's silver star, Wave o'er the cloud of Saxon war, That up the lake comes winding far ! To hero bound for battle-strife, Or bard of martial lay, 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their... 
