 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 488 páginas
...long-tailed dragon, about the thickness of an hogshead, with the report of thunder and the velocity of lightning ; and the darkness of the night was dispelled by this deadly illumination. The use of the Greek, or, as it might now be called, of the Saracen fire, was... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 546 páginas
...long-tailed dragon, about the thickness of a hogshead, with the report of thunder, and the velocity of lightning; and the darkness of the night was dispelled by this deadly illumination. The use of the Greek, or as it might now be called, of the Saracen fire, was continued... | |
 | 1832 - 650 páginas
...them for repelling the crusaders, and overpowering the Greeks, upon whose side it had atone time been the most formidable implement of defence. Some exaggeration...fled manfully when the commodore of the Greeks fired the first discharge ; and as the other vessels in the squadron followed his example, the heavens were... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1832 - 364 páginas
...side it Lad at one time been the most formidable implement of defence. Some exaggeration we taiust allow for a barbarous period ; but there seems no...fled manfully when the commodore of the Greeks fired the first discharge ; and as the other vessels in the squadron followed his example, the heavens were... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1836 - 500 páginas
...them for repelling the Crusaders, and overpowering the Greeks, upon whose side it had at one time been the most formidable implement of defence. Some exaggeration...fled manfully when the commodore of the Greeks fired the first discharge ; and as the other vessels in the squadron followed his example, the heavens were... | |
 | 1838 - 518 páginas
...winged long-tailed dragon, about the thickness of a hogshead, with a report of thunder and the velocity of lightning; and the darkness of the night was dispelled by this deadly illumination.' The ue of Greek fire was continued to the middle of the 14th century, when the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1847 - 606 páginas
...them for repelling the crusaders, and overpowering the Greeks, upon whose side it had at one time been the most formidable implement of defence. Some exaggeration...fled manfully when the commodore of the Greeks fired the first discharge; and as the other vessels in the squadron followed his example, the heavens were... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1851 - 328 páginas
...winged, long-tailed dragon about the thickness of a hogshead, with the report of thunder and velocity of lightning ; and the darkness of the night was dispelled by this deadly illumination.' Some very learned authors are of opinion, that allusion is made to this composition... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1853 - 356 páginas
...them for repelling the crusaders, and overpowering the Greeks, upon whose side it had at one time been the most formidable implement of defence. Some exaggeration...illumination." Not only the bold Demetrius and his pupil Lasearis, but all the crowd whom they influenced, fled manfully when the commodore of the Greeks fired... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1855 - 506 páginas
...them for repelling the Crusaders, and overpowering the Greeks, upon whose side it had at one time been the most formidable implement of defence. Some exaggeration...fled manfully when the commodore of the Greeks fired the first discharge ; and as the other vessels in the squadron followed his example, the heavens were... | |
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Not only the bold Demetrius and his pupil Lascaris, but all the crowd whom they influenced, fled manfully when the commodore of the Greeks fired the first discharge ; and as the other vessels in the squadron followed his example, the heavens were filled... 
