 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1842 - 394 páginas
...agreeably restored the plaintive verses of Cowper, so often sung among the ditties of childhood : " Toll for the brave, The brave that are no more, All...sunk beneath the wave, Fast by their native shore." The destructive weapons and instruments of torture, taken from the Spanish armada, are exhibited in... | |
 | Samuel Leech - 1843 - 358 páginas
...untimely end. The poet Cowper has celebrated this melancholy event in '.he following beautiful lines : 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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1843 - 406 páginas
...is ended. ON THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE. WRITTEN WHEN THE NEWS' ARRIVED. TO THE MARCH IN SCIPIO. TOLL for the brave ! The brave that are no more !...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... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 páginas
...when its whole crew, consisting of 800 souls, with the unfortunate Admiral Kempenfeldt, perished. " 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... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1884 - 436 páginas
...emotional. Take as an instance the " Loss of the Royal George " : — " Toll for the brave, The brave who 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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1846 - 310 páginas
...LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE. [To the March in Scipio.] WRITTEN WHEN THE MEWS ARRIVED. [September, 1782.] 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... | |
 | Tales - 1847 - 336 páginas
...when the report of the event reached him, will fitly close this account of so disastrous a wreck. " Toll for the brave ! The brave that are no more !...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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1849 - 740 páginas
...TRANSLATIONS. ON THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE (TO TUB MARCH IN SCIPJO.) WRITTEN WHEN THE NEWS ARRIVED. TOLL for the brave ! The brave that are no more !...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... | |
 | Frances Osborne - 1850 - 344 páginas
...written some touching lines on this awful calamity, with which we will wind up the subject: — ' " •> "'Toll for the brave! ; The brave that are no more!...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... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1851 - 332 páginas
...statesmen and king." Hearts of oak, <kc. THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE. WILLUM COWPEE, born 1731, died 1800. 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... | |
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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... 
