 Toll for the brave! The brave that are no more! All sunk beneath the wave, Fast by their native shore ! Eight hundred of the brave, Whose courage well was tried, Had made the vessel heel, And laid her on her side. A land-breeze shook the shrouds, And...  Poems - Sivu 64tekijä(t) William Cowper - 1818 - 299 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 sivua
...and come to dust." Cowper's lines on the loss of the Royal George sound like the passing bell : — " Toll for the brave ! The brave that are no more !...All sunk beneath the wave Fast by their native shore ! " The Castaway, by the same author, combines what is most touching in both kinds of elegy. After... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1862 - 304 sivua
...'She 's deaf to beauty's soft persuasive power, Nor can bright Hebe's charms her bloom secure.' 4. • Toll for the brave ! The brave that are no more, All...sunk beneath the wave Fast by their native shore.' 5. ' And authors think their reputation safe Which lives as long as fools are pleased to laugh.' 6.... | |
 | Charles Dibdin - 1863 - 366 sivua
...portals of heaven, Shall bid us seek fortitude there. LOSS OF THE BOYAL GEOKGE. WILLIAM COWPER. OLL for the brave, The brave that are no more ! All sunk...made the vessel heel, And laid her on her side. A land-breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset, Down went the Royal George, With all her crew complete.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1863 - 540 sivua
...WRITTEN WHEN THE NEWS ARRIVED.* TO THE MARCH IN 8CIPIO. TOLL for the brave ! The brave that are no more t All sunk beneath the wave, Fast by their native shore...made the vessel heel, And laid her on her side. A land-breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset ; Down went the Royal George, With all her crew... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 390 sivua
...ronsequences the most important naval battle of modern times, — was less than seventeen hundred.] 1. TOLL for the brave, The brave that are no more ; All...sunk beneath the wave, Fast by' their native shore. 2. Eight hundred of the brave, Whose courage well was tried, Had made the vessel heel2, And laid her... | |
 | Playtime - 1863 - 436 sivua
...and the daylight's past. MOORE. THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE. 185 LXVI THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE. Toll for the brave ! The brave that are no more !...sunk beneath the wave, Fast by their native shore 1 Eight hundred of the brave, Whose courage well was tried, Had made the vessel heel, And laid her... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 sivua
...heart will break at last, My Mary! ON THE LOSS OF THE "EOYAL GEOEGE." Written when the news arrived, 1782. TOLL for the brave ! The brave that are no more!...made the vessel heel, And laid her on her side. A laud breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset ; Down went the " Royal George," With all her crew... | |
 | 1865 - 1046 sivua
...words of comfort the tragedy with •which " an owre true tale " supplied him. Loss OF THE ROYAL GEOBGB Toll for the Brave ! The brave that are no more !...Had made the vessel heel And laid her on her side. A land-breeze shook the shrouds And she was overset ; Down went the Royal George, With all her crew complete.... | |
 | Easy poetry - 1865 - 206 sivua
...cannot be hid from the glance of God's eye; Who notices all that you do. THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE. TOLL for the brave ! The brave that are no more !...hundred of the brave, Whose courage well was tried, Hade made the vessel heel, And laid her on her side ; A land breeze shook the shrouds, And she was... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 sivua
...dunce, that has been sent to roam, Excels a dunce that has been kept at home. The Progress of Error. Toll for the brave ! The brave that are no more !...sunk beneath the wave, Fast by their native shore. On the Loss of the Rngal George. Misses ! the tale that I relate This lesson seems to carry, Choose... | |
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