 | William Beattie - 1850 - 570 páginas
...others more or less altered, while it was passing through the press. 6. It was ten of Thursday mom, By the chime, As they drifted on their path There...deep as death, And the boldest held his breath For a lime — 7. Ere a first and fatal round Shook the flood , Kvery Dane looked out that day, Like the... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 páginas
...the land Led them on. ii. Like leviathans afloat, Lay their bnlwarks on the brine ; While the sign of battle flew On the lofty British line : It was ten of April morn by the ehime : As they drifted on their path, There was silenee deep as death ; And the boldest held his breath... | |
 | Frederic Charles Cook - 1851 - 118 páginas
...the land Led them on. — Like leviathans afloat, Lay their bulwarks on the brine ; While the sign of battle flew On the lofty British line ; It was...anticipate the scene : And her van the fleeter rush'd O'er the deadly space between. " Hearts of oak our captains cried ! when each gun From its adamantine... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 páginas
...all the land Led them on. Like leviathans afloat, Lay their bulwarks on the brine ; While the sign of battle flew On the lofty British line : It was...flush'd" To anticipate the scene ; And her van the fleeter8 rush'd O'er the deadly space between. " Hearts of oak !" our captains cried, when each gun... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1851 - 332 páginas
...of all the land, Led them on. Like leviathans afloat, Lay their bulwarks on the brine While the sign of battle flew On the lofty British line : It was...held his breath For a time. But the might of England flusb'd, To anticipate the scene ; And her van the fleeter rush'd O'er the deadly space between. "... | |
 | 1851 - 278 páginas
...them on. Like Leviathans afloat Lay their bulwarks on the brine ; IWhile the sign of battle flew 3On the lofty British line ; It was ten of April morn,...held his breath For a time. But the might of England flush' d To anticipate the scene ; And her van the fleeter rush'd O'er the deadly space between. "... | |
 | 1851 - 608 páginas
...music of the metre is surpassingly fine : our own breath is suspended at the glorious stanza ending As they drifted on their path, There was silence deep...death, And the boldest held his breath For a time. And how easily he melts us, amid the joy of victory und the festal city's blaze, whilst the wine-cup... | |
 | 1859 - 748 páginas
...rages loud and long, And the stormy tempests blow.' One gem from 'The Battle of the Baltic:' — ' There was silence deep as death, And the boldest held his breath For a time.' But our space warns us to be chary of quotations. A few detached couplets from ' The Pleasures of Hope'... | |
 | William Shannon - 1852 - 294 páginas
...them on. Like leviathans afloat, Lay their bulwarks on the brine, While the sign of battle flew O'er the lofty British line, It was ten of April morn by...There was silence deep as death, And the boldest held their breath, For a time. But the might of England flush'd To anticipate the scene ; And her van the... | |
 | 1852 - 782 páginas
...the following very short and simple description of the British fleet bearing op to close action : " As they drifted on their path. There was silence deep as death ! And the boldest held his breaih For a lime.—"—p. 109. sand stan zas of Uumdet, ahueY.*, ¿uovrt»., VciThe description of... | |
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Like leviathans afloat Lay their bulwarks on the brine; While the sign of battle flew On the lofty British line: It was ten of April morn by the chime: As they drifted on their path There was silence deep as death; And the boldest held his breath For... 
