 | Catherine Sinclair - Shetland (Scotland) - 1840 - 360 pages
...scene of Grey's " Fatal Sisters," translated from the Norse tongue. Now the storm begins to lower, (Haste, the loom of Hell prepare,) Iron sleet of arrowy shower, Hurtles in the darken'd air. When about to leave Caithness, we discovered that the only post-chaise in this county had been already... | |
 | Songs, English - 1840 - 652 pages
...for 5 Voices.— W. HORSLEY, Mus. Bac. (Alto, 2 Tenors, and 2 Basses.) Now the storm begins to lower, Haste ! the loom of hell prepare ; Iron sleet of arrowy shower Hurtles in the darken'd air; o Mista, black terrific maid, Sangrida and Hilda see ; Join the wayward work to aid, T is the woof... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 750 pages
...Now the ttorm beginn to lour, Haute the loom of hell prepare, Iron sleet of arrowy shower Hurtle« in the darken'd air." But when they had heard a verse or two more. Üiey interrupted the reader, telling him they knew tlic song well in the Norse language, and had often... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 pages
...banquet, and served the departed heroes with horns of mead and ale. Now the storm begins to lower, (Haste, the loom of Hell prepare,) Iron sleet of arrowy shower Hurtles in the darken' d air. Glittering lances are the loom, Where the dusky warp we strain, Weaving many a soldier's... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - Spinning - 1843 - 242 pages
...which Gray has translated from the Norse tongue with singular success : Now the storm begins to lower, (Haste, the loom of Hell prepare,) Iron sleet of arrowy shower Hurtles in the durkcu'd air. Glittering lances are the loom Where the dusky warp we strain, Weaving many a soldier's... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1844 - 662 pages
...history of their own country. They listened with great attention to the preliminary staiuas:— "Now the storm begins to lour, Haste the loom of hell prepare,...the reader, telling him they knew the song well in thr Norse language, and had often sung it to him when he asked them for an old song. They called it... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 428 pages
...Through the sweet brier or the vine, Or the twisted eglantine." Quick. " Now the storm begins to lower ; (Haste, the loom of hell prepare ;} Iron sleet of arrowy shower Hurtles in the darkened air. - " Ere the ruddy sun be set, "Pikes must shiver, javelins sing, Blade with clattering... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - Conduct of life - 1845 - 196 pages
...rapture calls, and soaring, as she sings, "Waves in the eye of heaven her many-colour'd wings." " Now the storm begins to lour, "(Haste, the loom of hell prepare,) " Iron sleet of arrowy shower " Hurtles in the darkened air." " Now my weary lips 1 close : " Leave me, leave me to repose." Nothing can be more expressive... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1846 - 526 pages
...of their own country. They listened with great attention to the preliminarystanzas: — '.'Now the storm begins to lour, Haste the loom of hell prepare,...they knew the song well in the Norse language , and bad often sung it to him when he asked them for an old song. They called it the Magicians, or the Enchantresses.... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - English language - 1847 - 518 pages
...ihower," which is apparently plagiarised by Gray in the following passage. Now the storm begins to lower, Haste, the loom of hell prepare ! Iron sleet of arrowy shower Hurtles In the darken'd air. Gray's Fatal Sutfre. ARRWUS. Arrows. This form of the word occurs in a strange burlesque printed in... | |
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Now the storm begins to lour, Haste the loom of hell prepare, Iron sleet of arrowy shower Hurtles in the darken'd air. 
