| Walter Scott - 1923 - 722 pages
...history 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 darken 'd air. But when they had heard a verse or two more, they interrupted the reader, telling him... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 424 pages
...dreadful note of preparation. Klilf Henry f.. Act lv. Cliarta. SHAKESPEARE. Now the stonn 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... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1106 pages
...dreadful note of preparation. King Henry V., Act iv. Chorus. SHAKESPEARE. Now the storm begins to lower, he archangel trumpet ; through the vast of heaven It sounded, and the faithful darkened air. Glittering lances are the loom, Where the dusky warp we strain, Weaving many a soldier's... | |
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