 | Virgil - 1882 - 434 pages
...sleet of arrowy showers,' and Gray, ' The Fatal Sisters,' stanza I : 'Now the Storm begins to lower, (Haste, the loom of Hell prepare,) Iron sleet of arrowy shower Hurtles in the darkened air.* feront, 'they sweep off;' cp. Eel. ix. 51. focos, 'braziers.' infecto foedere (see above... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1883 - 1018 pages
...of their own country. They listened with great attention to the preliminary stanzas : — " Now the storm begins to lour. Haste the loom of hell prepare ; Iron sleet of arrowy shower Hurtles in the darkeu'd air." But when they heard a verse or two more, they interrupted the reader, telling him they... | |
 | John R. Tudor - Botany - 1883 - 780 pages
...song of the witches Gray has paraphrased in his Fatal Sisters : — " Now the storm begins to lower (Haste, the loom of hell prepare), Iron sleet of arrowy shower Hurtles in the darken'd air. ' ' Glitt'ring lances are the loom Where the dusky warp we strain, Weaving many a soldier's doom —... | |
 | Robert Menzies Fergusson - Orkney (Scotland) - 1883 - 198 pages
...the warp and the woof they were supposed to have sung this song :— " 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 doom—... | |
 | Robert Menzies Fergusson - Orkney (Scotland) - 1883 - 196 pages
...the woof they were supposed to have sung this song : — " Now the storm begins to lower ; Haute tlw 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 doom... | |
 | Walter Scott - Jacobites - 1885 - 912 pages
...the loom o[ hell prepare ; Iron sleet of arrowy shower Unities in the darken'd AIT." But when they heard a verse or two more, they interrupted the reader,...Norse language, and had often sung it to him when ho asked them for an old song. They called it the Magicians, of the Enchantresses. It would have been... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1886 - 176 pages
...horrors of the deep." THE FATAL SISTERS. An Ode. 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. Glitt'ring lances are the loom, Where the dusky warp we strain, Weaving many a soldier's doom, Orkney's... | |
 | Virgil - Epic poetry, Latin - 1891 - 194 pages
...sleet of arrowy showers,' and Gray, ' The Fatal Sisters,' stanza I : ' Now the Storm begins to lower, (Haste, the loom of Hell prepare,) Iron sleet of arrowy shower Hurtles in the darkened air.' craterasque, ' bowls and braziers are carried away,' ie by persons retiring from the... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Elegiac poetry - 110 pages
...the horrors of the deep." THE FATAL SISTERS. From the Norse Tongue. NOW the storm begins to lower, (Haste, the loom of Hell prepare !) Iron sleet of arrowy shower Hurtles in the darkened air. Glittering lances are the loom, Where the dusky warp we strain, Weaving many a soldier's... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1893 - 502 pages
...of their own country. They listened with great attention to the preliminary stanzas : — " Now the storm begins to lour, Haste the loom of hell prepare, Iron sleet of arrowry shower Hurtles in the darken'd air." But when they had heard a verse or two more, they interrupted... | |
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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. 
