 | William Cowper - 1841 - 324 páginas
...[To the March in Scipio.] WRITTEN WHEN THE NEWS ARRIVED [September, 1782.] TOLL for the brave ! Tie 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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 ! 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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 ! 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 ,... | |
 | 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 ! 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,... | |
 | 1900 - 566 páginas
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 | 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! 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,... | |
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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... 
