 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 páginas
...BRUCE of BANNOCKBURN. CAMPBELL. CASABIANCA.t The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled , The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone...blood, A proud though childlike form ! The flames roll'd on — he would not go Without his father's word ; That father, faint in death below, His voice... | |
 | Book - 1858 - 124 páginas
...vessel, when the flames had reached the powder. THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone...heroic blood, A proud though childlike form. The flames roll'd on — he would not go Without his father's word ; That father, faint in death below, His voice... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1858 - 248 páginas
...wheth'er schSol 8 for-ggf XXTX.-CASABIANCA.' THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone...creature of heroic blood, A proud, though childlike form. 1 Casabianca, a boy about thirteen years old, son of the Admiral nf the Orient, remained at his post... | |
 | Worthy Putnam - 1858 - 420 páginas
...vesael, whoa the flames had reached the powder. 1. THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead. 2. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud,... | |
 | 1859 - 450 páginas
...been abandoned ; and perished in the explosion of the vessel, when the flames had reached the powder.] THE boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he...had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shoae round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm ; A creature... | |
 | Sir Archibald Alison - 1860 - 700 páginas
...beautifully treated by one of the greatest of modern lyric poets. " The boy stood on the burning dock Whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him on the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm ; A creature of heroic blood,... | |
 | John Eric Sidney Thompson - 1963 - 324 páginas
...Correlation C. It was well worth waiting for. At one time it looked as though I was cast for the role of "The boy stood on the burning deck whence all but he had fled," but now that the flames are quenched, the passengers are rowing back to the old ship as fast as they... | |
 | Theodore M. Bernstein - 1995 - 516 páginas
...Oxford Dictionary of Quotations and Bartletfs Familiar Quotations present the famous line as follows: "The boy stood on the burning deck, whence all but he had fled. . . ." But Bartlett carries this footnote: "The first American edition of Mrs. Hemans's Poems (1826)... | |
 | Mary Hilton, Morag Styles, Victor Watson - 1997 - 258 páginas
...it sounds a little sentimental today, it also does that unusual thing - treats a child like a hero. The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he...storm A creature of heroic blood, A proud, though child-hke form. [...] There came a burst of thunder-sound The boy - oh! where was he? Ask of the winds... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 páginas
...to be obeyed. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, (1804-1864) US author. The Blithedale Romance, ch. 2 (1852). 14 The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled. 15 So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make... | |
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THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud, though child-like... 
