The British Archer, Or, Tracts on ArcheryR. Ackermann, 1831 - 121 pages |
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Page 6 - Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me some venison ; and make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat ; that my soul may bless thee before I die.
Page 111 - No more shall nation against nation rise, Nor ardent warriors meet with hateful eyes; Nor fields with gleaming steel be cover'd o'er; The brazen trumpets kindle rage no more; But useless lances into scythes shall bend, And the broad falchion in a ploughshare end.
Page 17 - Lay me a green sod under my head, And another at my feet ; And lay my bent bow by my side, Which was my music sweet ; And make my grave of gravel and green, Which is most right and meet.
Page 6 - High notes responsive to the trembling string, To some new strain when he adapts the lyre, Or the dumb lute refits with vocal wire, Relaxes, strains, and draws them to and fro ; So the great master drew the mighty bow : And drew with ease. One hand aloft display'd The bending horns, and one the string essay'd. From his essaying hand the string let fly Twang'd short and sharp, like the shrill swallow's cry. A general horror ran through all the race, ' Sunk was each heart, and pale was every face....
Page 13 - Kyme, that earldom being part of his mother's dowry, and William. Philip, the elder, died without issue ; William was a ward to Robert de Vere, earl of Oxford, in whose household he received his education, and who, by the king's express...
Page 6 - XXII. fierce the hero o'er the threshold strode; Stript of his rags, he blaz'd out like a god. Full in their face the lifted bow he bore, And quiver'd deaths, a formidable store; Before his feet the rattling show'r he threw, 5 And thus terrific, to the suitor-crew: .,; One vent'rous game this hand has won to-day; Another, princes! yet remains to play: Another mark our arrow must attain. Phoebus, assist! nor be the labour vain.
Page 6 - And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him ; and he was sore wounded of the archers.
Page 19 - During a siege," says this ancient writer, " it happened that two soldiers running in haste towards a tower, situated at a little distance from them, were attacked with a number of arrows from the Welsh ; which being shot with prodigious violence, some penetrated through the oak doors of a portal, although they were the breadth of four fingers in thickness.
Page 6 - Apollo's altars in his native town. Now with full force the yielding horn he bends, Drawn to an arch, and joins the doubling ends ; Close to his breast he strains the nerve below, Till the barb'd point approach the circling bow ; The' impatient weapon whizzes on the wing ; Sounds the tough horn, and twangs the quivering string.
Page 50 - Captens and officers should be skilful of that most noble weapon the long-bow; and to see that their soldiers, according to their draught and strength, have good bowes...