 To bear the purchas'd prize in safety to the shore. The troop retires, the lovers close the rear, With forward faces not confessing fear : Backward they move, but scorn their pace to mend, Then seek the stairs, and with slow haste descend.  Fables from Boccaccio and Chaucer - Стр. 236авторы: Giovanni Boccaccio, John Dryden - 1822 - Страниц: 267Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - Страниц: 658
...Cymon's back in his dcfcent, / The blade return'd unbath'd, and to the handle Г bent: J Stout Cymon foon remounts, and cleft in two His rival's head with one descending blow : And as the next in rank Ormifda flood, He turn'd the point : the fword enur'd to blood, Bor'd his unguarded bread, which pour... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - Страниц: 658
...Cymon's back in his defcent, I The blade retum'd unbath'd, and to the handle f bent: 3 Stout Cymon foon remounts, and cleft in two His rival's head with one descending blow : And as the next in rank Ormifda floral, ~) He turn'd the point : the fword enur'd to blood, / Bor'd his unguarded breart, which... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - Страниц: 346
...confessing fear : Backward they move, but scorn their pace to mend 5 Then seek the stairs, and v.irh slow haste descend. Fierce Pasimond, their passage...on Cymon's back in his descent, The blade return'd unbath'd, and to the handle( bent. Stout Cymon soon remounts, and cleft in two 640 His rival's head... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - Страниц: 506
...lovers close the rear, With forward faces not confessing fear : Backward they move, but scorn their pace to mend ; Then seek the stairs, and with slow haste...Thrust full on Cymon's back in his descent, The blade returned unbathed, and to the handle { bent. Stout Cymon soon remounts, and cleft in two His rival's... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - Страниц: 500
...lovers close the rear, With forward faces not confessing fear : Backward they move, but scorn their pace to mend ; Then seek the stairs, and with slow haste...Thrust full on Cymon's back in his descent, The blade returned unbathed, and to the handle bent. Stout Cymon soon remounts,. and cleft in two His rival's... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - Страниц: 604
...their passage to prevent,Thrust full on Cymon's back in his descent ; The blade return'd uubath'd, mortal frame! Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying...the pain, the bliss of dying ! Cease, fond Nature, aCthe next in rank Ormisda stood, -» Heturn dthe point; the sword, inur'd to Wood, ( Bor'd his nngarded... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - Страниц: 612
...lovers close the rear, With forward faces not confessing fear : Backward they move, but scorn their pace to mend, Then seek the stairs, and with slow haste...Thrust full on Cymon's back in his descent ; The blade retum'd unbath'd, and to the handle bent. Stout Cymon soon remounts, and cleft in two His rival's head... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - Страниц: 664
...the rear, With forward faces not confessing fear: Backward they move, but scorn' their pace to meml, Then seek the stairs, and with slow haste descend....on Cymon's back in his descent; The blade return'd unbath'd, and to the handle bent. Stout Cymon soon remounts, and cleft in two His rival's head with... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - Страниц: 620
...rear, Wilh forward faces not confessing fear : Backward they move, but scorn their pace to mend, Tien seek the stairs, and with slow haste descend. Fierce...Thrust full on Cymon's back in his descent ; The blade retum'd unbath'd, and to the handle Stout Cymon soon remounts, and eleft in two His rival's head with... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - Страниц: 664
...close the rear, With forward faces not confc.ssinE: fear : Barkward they move, but scorn' their pace to mend, Then seek the stairs, and with slow haste descend. Fierce Pasimond, their passaje to prévint, Thrust full on Cymon's back in his descent ; The blade rcturn'd unbath'd, and... | |
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