 And now, my race of terror run, Mine be the eve of tropic Sun ! No pale gradations quench his ray, No twilight dews his wrath allay ; With disk like battle-target red, He rushes to his burning bed, Dyes the wide wave with bloody light, Then sinks at once...  The Quarterly Musical Magazine and Review - Page 961826Full view - About this book
 | Emma Robinson - 1850 - 204 pages
...dews hie wrath allay ; With disk like battle-target red, He rushes to his burning bed, Dyes the wild wave with bloody light, Then sinks at once — and all is night. SCOTT. THE spectacle of her enemy's degradation produced an unfavorable effect on Jeanne herself among... | |
 | Mrs. Harriet DRUMMOND - 1852 - 248 pages
...Mine be the eve of tropic sun; No pale gradations quench his ray, No twilight dews his wrath allay; With disk like battle target red, He rushes to his...bloody light, Then sinks at once, and all is night!" " It is a grand description, my dear boy," said his papa; " but I am not sure that I would part with... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1853 - 334 pages
...eve of tropic sun ! No pale gradations quench his ray, No twilight dews his wrath allay ; With disc like battle target red, He rushes to his burning bed,...bloody light, Then sinks at once— and all is night. BASIL'S ADDRESS TO HIS MUTINOUS TROOPS. BY JOANNA BAILLJB. SOLDIERS ! we've fought togelhcr in the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1854 - 892 pages
...No pale gradations quench his ray, No twilight dews his wrath allay ; With disk like battle-target red, He rushes to his burning bed ; Dyes the wide...with bloody light. Then sinks at once — and all ia night.' " British Critic. " I hope you will like Bertram to the end ; he is a Caravaggio sketch,... | |
 | 1853 - 622 pages
...Mine be the eve of tropic sun, No pale gradation quench his ray, No twilights dim his wrath allay. With disk like battle target red, He rushes to his burning bed. Dies the red wave with bloody light, Then sinks at once — and all is night." Yet more appropriately... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1854 - 322 pages
...eve of tropic sun ! No pale gradations quench his ray, No twilight dews his wrath allay ; With disc like battle target red, He rushes to his burning bed,...bloody light, Then sinks at once — and all is night. BASIL'S ADDRESS TO HIS MUTINOUS TROOPS. BY JOANNA II VI I, UK. SOLDIERS ! we've fought together in... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - 590 pages
...! No pale gradations quench his ray, No twilight dews his wrath allay; With disk like battle-target red, He rushes to his burning bed, Dyes the wide wave...bloody light, Then sinks at once — and all is night. — " Now to thy mission, Edmund. Fly, Seek Mortham out, and bid him hie To Richmond, where his troops... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1855 - 914 pages
...No twilight dews bis wrath allay ; With disk like battle-target red, He rashes to his burning betl ; Dyes the wide wave with bloody light, Then sinks at once — and all M night.' " Rritinh Critif. 11 1 hope yon will like Bertram to the end ; he i« a Curavaggio sketch,... | |
 | Anne Bowman - 1856 - 316 pages
...No pale gradations quench his ray, No twilight dews his wrath allay ; With disk like battle-target red, He rushes to his burning bed ; Dyes the wide...bloody light, Then sinks at once — and all is Night ! SCOTT. MOUNTAIN ECHOES. YE spirits like the winds ! — Ye, who around The rocks and these primeval... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1856 - 452 pages
...and grey." " And again, hear Bertram : " Mine be the eve of tropic sun : With disk like battle-target red, He rushes to his burning bed, Dyes the wide wave...bloody light, Then sinks at once ; and all is night." In all places of this kind, where a passing thought is suggested by some external scene, that thought... | |
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