| Samuel Leech - 1844 - 320 páginas
...Cowper has celebrated this melancholy event in the following beautiful lines : Toll for the brave! The brave that are no more! All sunk beneath the wave,...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... | |
| William Cowper - 1846 - 310 páginas
...[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,...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 páginas
...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,...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 páginas
...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,...all her crew complete. Toll for the brave ! Brave Kcmpenfelt is gone ; His last sea-fight is fought ; His work of glory done. It was not in the battle... | |
| Frances Osborne - 1850 - 344 páginas
...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,...all her crew complete. '"Toll for the brave! Brave Kempenfeldt is gone; His last sea-fight is fought: His work of glory done. " ' It was not in the battle... | |
| William Cowper - 1850 - 476 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
| Frances Osborne - 1851 - 332 páginas
...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,...all her crew complete. "'Toll for the brave! Brave Kempenfeldt is gone; His last sea-fight is fought: His work of glory done. "' It was not in the battle... | |
| Charles Mackay - 1851 - 332 páginas
...oak, <kc. THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE. WILLUM COWPEE, born 1731, died 1800. TOLL for the brave! The brave that are no more ! All sunk beneath the wave,...shook the shrouds, And she was overset ; Down went the Eoyal George With all her crew complete. Toll for the brave ! Brave Kempenfelt is gone ; His last sea... | |
| William Cowper - 1851 - 790 páginas
...of annexing it to the original. • ONU. ON THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL OEOBOE. Toll for the brave ! The brave that are no more ! All sunk beneath the wave,...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... | |
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