 And the torch of that blazing glory Old Lemnos caught on high, On its holy promontory, And sent it on, the jocund sign, To Athos, Mount of Jove divine. Wildly the while, it rose from the isle, .•So that the might of the...  Shaffner's Telegraph Companion - 86. lappuse1854Pilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | 1837 - 808 lapas
...Chorus, half incredulous, demand what messenger conveyed the intelligence. Clytemnestra replies — " A gleam — a gleam — from Ida's height By the Fire-God...light, As a rider rode the Flame ! It shot through the startled-sky, And the torch ofthat blazing glory Old Lemnos caught on high, 392 Parther and faster... | |
 | 1837 - 590 lapas
...Chorus, half incredulous, demand what messenger conveyed th tintelligeuce. Clytemnestra replies — " A gleam — a gleam — from Ida's height, By the...light, As a rider rode the Flame ! It shot through the startled-sky, And the torch of that blazing glory Old Lemnos caught on high, On its holy promontory,... | |
 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1837 - 618 lapas
...messenger conveyed the intelli- n. , CHAP. gence. Clytemnestra replies— A gleam—a gleam—from Ida's height, By the Fire-god sent, it came ;— From...light, As a rider rode the Flame ! It shot through the startled-sky, And the torch of that blazing glory Old Lemnos caught on high, On its holy promontory,... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1850 - 696 lapas
...description of the bale-fires which announced to the Lothians a Warden inroad of the English forces : — " A gleam — a gleam — from Ida's height, By the...rode the Flame ! It shot through the startled sky, And the torch of that blazing glory Old Lemnos caught on high, On its holy promontory. And sent it... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1852 - 328 lapas
...chorus, half incredulous, demand what messenger conveyed the intelligence. Clytemnestra replies : — " A gleam — a gleam — from Ida's height, By the fire-god sent, it came ; From watch to watch it leap'd that light, As a rider rode the flame ! It shot through the startled sky, And the torch of that... | |
 | 1852 - 410 lapas
...description of the bale-fires which announced to the Lothians a warden iuroad of the English forces : — " A gleam — a gleam— from Ida's height. By the Fire-god sent. It came ; — From waich to watch It leapt that light. Ai a rider rode the Flame! It shot through the startled sky. And... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1853 - 694 lapas
...appointed to guard and light them at the appointed signal. Clytemnestra, in the Agamemnon of^Eschylus, gives us a beautiful description of these journeying...gleam— a gleam — from Ida's height, By the fire-god vent it came ; From watch to watch it leapt, that light, AB a rider rode the flame. . It shot through... | |
 | William Ingraham Kip - 1853 - 324 lapas
...the beacon flame from Troy to Argos :— * Wordsworth's Greece, p. 151. J " A gleam—a gleam—from Ida's height, By the fire-god sent, it came ; From watch to watch it leap'd that light, As a rider rode the flame ! It shot through the startled sky, And the torch of that... | |
 | 1857 - 534 lapas
...Acrocorinth, be- veyed the intelligence. Clytemnestra reneath which they were performed ; or plies : — A gleam — a gleam — from Ida's height By the Fire-God...watch it leapt that light, As a rider rode the flame ! I shot through the startled sky, And the torch of that blazing glory Old Lemnos caught on high, On... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1858 - 674 lapas
...appointed to guard and light them at the appointed signal. Clytemnestra, in the Agamemnon ofjEschylus, gives us a beautiful description of these journeying...The watchman of the tower has nightly scanned the honzoa for ten long years, in vain to catch the gleam that is to announce the fall of Ilion. At last... | |
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