| Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 ページ
...space between. 'Hearts of oak !' our captains cried, when each gun From its adamantine lips Spread a death-shade round the ships, Like the hurricane eclipse...;— Their shots along the deep slowly boom:— Then ceased—and all is wail, As they strike the shatter'd sail; Or in conflagration pale Light the gloom.... | |
| Clement Mansfield Ingleby - 1861 - 420 ページ
...Campbell's Battle of the Baltic, which I think was first published in 1800. In this we read,34 — " Again ! again ! again ! And the havoc did not slack,...feeble cheer the Dane To our cheering sent us back ; — " But I cannot find that a cheer was employed in the modern sense of a shout of applause till... | |
| Selection, Thomas Oliphant (of Edinburgh) - 1862 - 346 ページ
...each gun, From its adamantine lips, Spread a death-shade round the ships, Like the hurricane-eclipse Of the sun. Again ! again ! again ! And the havoc...Their shots along the deep slowly boom : — Then ceased — and all is wail, As they strike the shatter'd sail ; Or, in conflagration pale, Light the... | |
| Henry Twells - 1862 - 262 ページ
...between. " Hearts of oak ! " our captains cried; when each gun. From its adamantine lips, Spread a death-shade round the ships, Like the hurricane eclipse Of the sun. Again ! again ! again ! And the havock did not slack, Till a feeble cheer, the Dane, To our cheering, sent us back: — Then ceased—and... | |
| Hugh Gawthrop - 1862 - 222 ページ
...our captains cried! when each gun O'er the deadly space between. From its adamantine lips Spread a death-shade round the ships, Like the hurricane eclipse Of the sun. Again! again! again! And the havock did not slack, Till a feeble cheer the Dane To our cheering sent us back ; Their shots along... | |
| Charles Dibdin - 1863 - 366 ページ
...space between. " Hearts of oak !" our captains cried ; when each gun From its adamantine lips Spread a death-shade round the ships, Like the hurricane eclipse...Again ! Again ! And the havoc did not slack, Till a feebler cheer the Dane To our cheering sent us back ; Their shots along the deep slowly boom : Then... | |
| Book - 1864 - 396 ページ
...each gun From its adamantine lips Spread a death-shade round the ships. Like the hurricane eclipse Again! again! again! And the havoc did not slack,...back;— Their shots along the deep slowly boom:— Then ceased—and all is wail, As they strike the shattered sail; Or, in conflagration pale, Light the gloom.... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 ページ
...space between. " Hearts of oak I" our captains cried ; when each gun From its adamantine lips Spread a death-shade round the ships, » Like the hurricane...eclipse Of the sun.— Again! again! again! And the havock did not slack, Till a feeble cheer the Dane To our cheering sent us back;— Their shots along... | |
| Frances Martin - 1866 - 506 ページ
...space between. ' Hearts of oak ! ' our captains cried ; when each gun From its adamantine lips Spread a death-shade round the ships, Like the hurricane eclipse...; — Their shots along the deep slowly boom ;Then cease — and all is wail, As they strike the shattered sail ; Or, in conflagration pale, Light the... | |
| Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1866 - 408 ページ
...space between. "Hearts of oak !" our captain cried, when each gun From its adamantine lips Spread a death-shade round the ships, Like the hurricane eclipse...— Their shots along the deep slowly boom: — Then ceased — and all is wail, As they strike the shattered sail; Or, in conflagration pale, Light the... | |
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