The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

The rugged miners poured to war from Mendip’s sunless caves.
‘The Armada’ (1833)
Till Belvoir’s lordly terraces the sign to Lincoln sent,
And Lincoln sped the message on o’er the wide vale of Trent;
Till Skiddaw saw the fire that burned on Gaunt’s embattled pile,
And the red glare on Skiddaw roused the burghers of Carlisle.
‘The Armada’ (1833)
Obadiah Bind-their-kings-in-chains-and-their-nobles-with-links-of-iron.
‘The Battle of Naseby’ (1824) fictitious author’s name.
Oh, wherefore come ye forth in triumph from the north,
With your hands, and your feet, and your raiment all red?
And wherefore doth your rout send forth a joyous shout?
And whence be the grapes of the wine-press which ye tread?
‘The Battle of Naseby’ (1824)
And the Man of Blood was there, with his long essenced hair,
And Astley, and Sir Marmaduke, and Rupert of the Rhine.
‘The Battle of Naseby’ (1824)
To my true king I offered free from stain
Courage and faith; vain faith, and courage vain.
‘A Jacobite’s Epitaph’ (1845)
By those white cliffs I never more must see,
By that dear language which I spake like thee,
Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear
O’er English dust. A broken heart lies here.
‘A Jacobite’s Epitaph’ (1845)
Let no man stop to plunder,
But slay, and slay, and slay;
The Gods who live for ever
Are on our side to-day.
‘Lays of Ancient Rome’ (1842) ‘The Battle of Lake Regillus’ st. 35
Lars Porsena of Clusium
By the nine gods he swore
That the great house of Tarquin
Should suffer wrong no more.
By the Nine Gods he swore it,
And named a trysting day,
And bade his messengers ride forth,
East and west and south and north,
To summon his array.
‘Lays of Ancient Rome’ (1842) ‘Horatius’ st. 1