E'en Higginbottom now was posed, For sadder scene was ne'er disclosed; Without, within, in hideous show, Devouring flames resistless glow, And blazing rafters downward go, And never halloo ' Heads below !' Nor notice give at all. The firemen terrified... Rejected Addresses, Or, The New Theatrum Poetarum - Página 82de James Smith, Horace Smith - 1851 - 193 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
| 1813 - 706 páginas
...firemen, terrified, are slow To bid the pumping torrent How, For fear the roof should fall. Back, Robins! Crump, stand aloof! Whitford, keep near the walls!...th' astonish'd crowd. At length the mist awhile was clear'd, When lo! amid the wreck upreur'd Gradual a moving head appear'd An eagle firemen knew 'Twas... | |
| Joseph Dennie, John Elihu Hall - 1801 - 674 páginas
...terrified, are slow . To bid the pumping torrent How, For fear the roof should fall. Back, Robins! Crump, stand aloof! Whitford, keep near the walls!...smoke, Rolling around its pitchy shroud, Conceal'd them frofti th' astonish'd crowd. At length the mist awhile was clear'd, When lo! amid the wreck uprear'd... | |
| 700 páginas
...And blazing rafters downward go, And never hallo "heads below!" Nor notice give at all: The firemen, terrified, are slow To bid the pumping torrent flow, For fear the roof should fall. Back, Robins! Crump, stand aloof. Whitford, keep near the walls! • Huggins, regard your own behoof, For lo! the... | |
| James Smith, Horace Smith - 1812 - 156 páginas
...blazing rafters downward go., And never halloo " heads below 1" Nor notice give at all: The firemen, terrified, are slow To bid the pumping torrent flow,...th' astonish'd crowd. At length the mist awhile was clear'd, When lo ! amid the wreck uprear'd, Gradual a moving head appear'd, And Eagle firemen knew... | |
| James Smith, Horace Smith - 1812 - 162 páginas
...blazing rafters downward go, And never halloo " heads below !" Nor notice give at all : The firemen, terrified, are slow To bid the pumping torrent flow,...lo ! the blazing rocking roof Down, down in thunder fairs ! An awful pause succeeds the stroke, And o'er the ruins volumed smoke, Rolling around its pitchy... | |
| James Smith, Horace Smith - 1812 - 154 páginas
...blazing rafters downward g», And never halloo " heads below !" Nor notice give at all : The firemen, terrified, are slow To bid the pumping torrent flow,...near the walls ! Huggins, regard your own behoof, For la! the blazing rocking roof Down, down in thunder falls ! An awful pause succeeds the stroke, And... | |
| James Smith, Horace Smith - 1813 - 472 páginas
...never halloo " heads below !'' Nor notice give at all : The firemen, terrified, are slow To bid tke pumping torrent flow, For fear the roof should fall....th' astonish'd crowd. At length the mist awhile was clear'd, When lo ! amid the wreck uprear'd, Gradual a moving head appear'd, And Eagle firemen knew... | |
| 1826 - 398 páginas
...blazing rafters downward go, And never halloo " Heads below !" Nor notice give at all : The firemen, terrified, are slow To bid the pumping torrent flow,...! An awful pause succeeds the stroke, And o'er the ruin's volum'd smoke, Rolling around its pitchy shroud, Conceal'd them from lh' astonish'd crowd. At... | |
| James Smith - 1833 - 218 páginas
...downward go, And never halloo " Heads below 1" Nor notice give at all. The firemen terrified are slpw To bid the pumping torrent flow, For fear the roof...Crump, stand aloof! Whitford, keep near the walls ! Muggins, regard your own behoof, For, lo! the blazing rocking roof Down, down, in thunder falls !... | |
| Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1838 - 590 páginas
...blazing rafters downward go, And never im I loo 'heads below? Nor notice give at all : The firemen, terrified, are slow To bid the pumping torrent flow....should fall. Back, Robins, back ! Crump, stand aloof! Wuitfprd, keep near the walls ! Huggins, regard your own beboof, For lo ! the blazing tucking roof... | |
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