 | John Mahelon Berry Sill, John Mahlem Berry Sill - 1880 - 220 ページ
...19. "She will never remember any mother butm«" (but she will remember me!.— Id., Hannah, p. 27. " The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled,"— Mrs. Hemans. NOTE.— This passage is misquoted in Worcester,s Dictionary, and misprinted in several... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1881 - 578 ページ
...toiling years ! — O Happiness ! how far we flee [thee! Thine own sweet paths in search of CASABIANCA.2 THE boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he...the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. 1 A remarkable description of feelings thus fluctuating from triumph to despondencv, is girt" in Bruce's... | |
 | Ferguson - 1881 - 386 ページ
...vessel when the names had reached the ponder. THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck,...o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, Aa born to rule the storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud, though child-like form. The flames... | |
 | Coventry Patmore - 1882 - 376 ページ
...blew, To make one leaf the next to kiss That closely by it grew. M. Draylon XXV CASABIANCA A True Story The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he...the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. The flames roll'd on. He would not go* Without his father's word ; That father faint in death below,... | |
 | John Charles Wright - 1882 - 188 ページ
...the fruit is ripe. An Isthmus is a narrow neck of land which joins twc larger portions. Ex. 61. — The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but...battle's wreck, Shone round him — o'er the dead. CHAPTER IV. THE NOUN. 1. A Noun is the name of any person, animal, thing, place, or idea. 2. But, there... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1882 - 408 ページ
...of the burning ship rolled around him, because he had not received his father's permission : — " The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but...the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. The flames rolled on — he would not go Without his father's word ; That father, faint in death below,... | |
 | Edwin Wolf - 1990 - 251 ページ
...Dorothea Hemans, still recalled by "The breaking waves dashed high / On a stern and rock-bound coast" and "The boy stood on the burning deck, / Whence all but he had fled." More difficult to understand was the frequent offering as a gift of The Course of T1me, a Miltonic... | |
 | A. B. Chambers - 2010 - 221 ページ
...because others, for sins not yet committed, may have had to memorize Mrs. Hemans's celebrated lines: The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. 15 In Marvell's version of a comparable scene, it is "Fortunate boy!"; this is the Scot named "Douglas,"... | |
 | John Eric Sidney Thompson - 1963 - 324 ページ
...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 ページ
...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)... | |
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THE boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. 
