 A land-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; His last sea-fight is fought; His work of glory done. It was not in the battle; No tempest gave...  Book of poetry for the young - 21 ページBook 著 - 1858 - 104 ページ全文表示 - この書籍について
 | Montgomery Belgion - 1950 - 312 ページ
...to produce an imitation of Pope's heroic couplet, it is equally easy to imitate Cowper's "time" in: Toll for the Brave! The brave that are no more! All...sunk beneath the wave Fast by their native shore! Nevertheless, "mechanic" is seldom the word that rises to our lips as we read anything of Cowper's.... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 ページ
...would oft beguile My heart of thoughts that made it ache, And force me to a smile. (1. 33—36) On the , rather find Strength in what remains behind; (1....looks through death, In years that bring the philo (1. 1—4) EBEV; FaPoR; FiP; GN; GTBS; GTBS-P; NOBE; TrGrPo On the Receipt of My Mother's Picture out... | |
 | William Galvani - 1999 - 236 ページ
...them — Ding-dong, bell. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE from The Tempest, 1611. Ariel's Song, act I, scene II. Toll for the brave The brave that are no more! All sunk beneath the wave Fast by their native shore. WILLIAM COWPER from the poem 'Loss of the Royal George'. The Royal George, a ship of 100 guns, capsized... | |
 | Virginia Woolf - 2001 - 500 ページ
...Brave': the first line of Cowper's 'The Loss of the Royal George'. The whole stanza goes like this: Toll for the brave! The brave that are no more! All...sunk beneath the wave Fast by their native shore. See also note top. 35. 312 Whoever you are ... all will be useless: a misquotation from Walt Whitman... | |
 | Tim Ecott - 2002 - 380 ページ
...ship's loss was immortalized in art and literature of the time, as well as in a poem by William Cowper: Toll for the brave — The brave! That are no more;...sunk beneath the wave. Fast by their native shore. A land-breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset; Down went the Royal George, With all her crew... | |
 | William Cowper - 2003 - 124 ページ
...reconciles man to his lot. 56 ON THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE (1782-3) Written when the News Arrived Toll for the brave— The brave! that are no more:...Had 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... | |
 | John Harding - 2007 - 276 ページ
...whole sorry affair was later immortalised in a poem by William Cowper, the first lines of which are, Toll for the brave The brave! that are no more; All...sunk beneath the wave, Fast by their native shore. 7 PUT A MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE WORLDWIDE, 1784-1999 Messages placed in bottles have been known to float... | |
 | Adam Hochschild - 2006 - 500 ページ
...were held, and mourners erected stones and monuments, one in Westminster Abbey. The poet Cowper wrote: Toll for the brave — The brave! That are no more:...sunk beneath the wave, Fast by their native shore. But at the bottom of Portsmouth harbor it was not all men. Among the drowned were some four hundred... | |
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