| Samuel Leech - 1843 - 358 σελίδες
...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...breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset ; Down went the Royal George, With all her crew complete. Toll for the brave — Brave Kempenfeldt is gone,... | |
| William Cowper - 1843 - 406 σελίδες
...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 !...breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset ; Down went the Royal George, With all her crew complete. Toll for the brave ! Brave Kempenfelt is gone ;... | |
| Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 σελίδες
...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...breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset; Down went the Royal George With all her crew complete. " Toll for the brave! Brave Kempenfeldt is gone;... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1884 - 436 σελίδες
...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...breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset ; Down went the Royal George, With all her crew complete. " Toll for the brave ! Brave Kempenfelt is gone... | |
| William Cowper - 1846 - 310 σελίδες
...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...land breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset ; 247 Down went the Royal George, With all her crew complete. Toll for the brave ! Brave Kempenfelt... | |
| Tales - 1847 - 336 σελίδες
...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 !...made the vessel heel , And laid her on her side. " A land-beeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset ; Down went the Royal George, With all her crew complete.... | |
| William Cowper - 1849 - 740 σελίδες
...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 !...breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset ; Down went the Royal George, With all her crew complete. Toll for the brave ! Brave Kcmpenfelt is gone ;... | |
| Frances Osborne - 1850 - 344 σελίδες
...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!...breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset; Down went the Royal George, With all her crew complete. '"Toll for the brave! Brave Kempenfeldt is gone;... | |
| William Cowper - 1850 - 476 σελίδες
...WHEN THE NEWS ARRIVED. To the March in Scipio. All sunk beneath the wave, Fast by their native shore t Eight hundred of the brave, Whose courage well was...made the vessel heel, And laid her on her side. A land-breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset ; Down went the Royal George, With all her crew... | |
| 1913 - 586 σελίδες
...much wind at the time. The real cause of the sinking of the vessel is given in the previous stanza : Eight hundred of the brave, Whose courage well was...Had made the vessel heel And laid her on her side. The standard authority on th? history of our Navy — Clowes's ' Royal Navy ' — lias a very brief... | |
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