 Toll for the brave ! Brave Kempenfelt is gone ; His last sea-fight is fought ; His work of glory done. It was not in the battle ; No tempest gave the shock ; She sprang no fatal leak...  The Poems of William Cowper - Page 340by William Cowper - 1905 - 741 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1842 - 394 pages
...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 exhibited in... | |
 | William Cowper - 1843 - 406 pages
...secure To last till life 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...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... | |
 | Samuel Leech - 1843 - 358 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...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...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 complete.... | |
 | Samuel Leech - 1844 - 320 pages
...brave, Whose courage well was tried, Had made the vessel heel, And laid her on her side. A land breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset; Down went...Royal George, With all her crew complete. Toll for the braveBrave Kempenfeldt is gone, Fis last sea fight is fought— His work of glory done. It was not... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1884 - 436 pages
...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...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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1846 - 310 pages
...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...made the vessel heel, And laid her on her side. A land breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset ; 247 Down went the Royal George, With all her crew... | |
 | Tales - 1847 - 336 pages
...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 pages
...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 !...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... | |
 | Frances Osborne - 1850 - 344 pages
...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!...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 complete.... | |
| |
