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" Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel by divine command With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, Such as of late o'er pale Britannia... "
Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Prefaces - Page 323
edited by - 1821 - 807 pages
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The British Essayists: Tatler.-v. 5-12. Spectator.-v. 13-15. Guardian.-v. 16 ...

Alexander Chalmers - 1856 - 452 pages
...prov'd, That, in the shock of charging hosts unmov'd, Amidst confusion, horror, anrt despair, Kxamiu'd all the dreadful scenes of war; In peaceful thought...engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. * Bv Addison, published in 1704. f Trie author alludes here to the terrible tempests which happened...
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The three serjeants; or, Phases of the soldier's life ..., Volume 251

Thomas Morris - 1858 - 356 pages
...That in the shock of charging hosts unmoved : Amidst confusion, horror, and despair, Examined well the dreadful scenes of war. In peaceful thought the field of death surveyed : To failing squadrons sent the timely aid, Led on his brave battalions to engage, And taught...
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The Poetical Works of Joseph Addison, Gay's Fables, and Somerville's Chase ...

Joseph Addison, George Gilfillan - 1859 - 428 pages
...proved, That, in the shock of charging hosts unmoved, 280 Amidst confusion, horror, and despair, Examined all the dreadful scenes of war ; In peaceful thought the field of death surveyed, To fainting squadrons sent the timely aid, Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught...
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Pearls from the poets: specimens selected, with biogr. notes, by H.W. Dulcken

Henry William Dulcken - 1860 - 230 pages
...proved That, in the shock of charging hosts unmoved, Amidst confusion, horror, and despair, Examined all the dreadful scenes of war : In peaceful thought...survey'd, To fainting squadrons sent the timely aid, O 114 ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the...
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The Journal of the United Service Institution, Volume 3

1860 - 464 pages
...proved, That, in the shock of charging hosts unmoved. Amidst confusion, terror, and despair, Examined all the dreadful scenes of war. In peaceful thought the field of death surveyed, To fainting squadrons sent the timely aid, Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught...
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The Fifth Reader of the School and Family Series

Marcius Willson - 1861 - 550 pages
...was proved, That in the shock of charging hnsU unmoved, Amid confusion, horror, and despair, Examined all the dreadful scenes of war ; In peaceful thought...survey'd. To fainting squadrons sent the timely aid; Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel,...
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Gleanings from the English poets, Chaucer to Tennyson, with biogr. notices ...

English poets - 1862 - 626 pages
...proved, That, in the shock of charging hosts unmoved, Amidst confusion, horror, and despair, Examined all the dreadful scenes of war ; In peaceful thought the field of death surveyed, To fainting squadrons sent the timely aid, Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught...
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Early English Poems, Chaucer to Pope: Chiefly Unabridged; Illustrated with ...

1863 - 478 pages
...proved. That, in the shock of charging hosts unmoved, Amidst confusion, horror, and despair, Examined all the dreadful scenes of war: In peaceful thought...survey'd, To fainting squadrons sent the timely aid, Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel,...
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Early English poems, Chaucer to Pope

English poems - 1863 - 364 pages
...proved, That, in the shock of charging hosts unmoved, Amidst confusion, horror, and despair, Examined all the dreadful scenes of war ; In peaceful thought...survey'd, To fainting squadrons sent the timely aid, Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel,...
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Favourite English Poems: Chaucer to Pope, 1350-1700

1863 - 362 pages
...proved, That, in the shock of charging hosts unmoved, Amidst confusion, horror, and despair, Examined all the dreadful scenes of war ; In peaceful thought...survey'd, To fainting squadrons sent the timely aid, Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel,...
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