 | Francis Wayland - Philosophy - 1861 - 444 pages
...Hearts of oak ! ' our captain cried, »nd each gun, From its adamantine lips, OBJECTS OF TASTE. 401 Spread a death-shade round the ships. Like the hurricane eclipse Of the sun." The late Dr. Jeffries, of Boston, in the narrative of his passage across the English Channel with Montgolfier,... | |
 | Charles Rogers - 1856 - 394 pages
...van the fleeter rush'd O'er the deadly space between. "Hearts of oak!" our Captain cried; wheneachgun From its adamantine lips Spread a death-shade round...back ; 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.... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...van the fleeter3 rush'd O'er the deadly space hetween. " Hearts of oak !" our captains cried, when each gun From its adamantine lips Spread a death-shade...again ! again ! And the havoc did not slack, Till a feehle cheer the Dane To our cheering sent us hack : — Their shots along the deep slowly hoom ;*... | |
 | Honor - 1856 - 94 pages
...van the fleeter rush'd O'er the deadly space between. " Hearts of oak ! " our captain cried ; when each gun From its adamantine lips Spread a death-shade...the ships, Like the hurricane eclipse Of the sun. Iv. Again ! again ! again ! And the havoc did not slack, Till a feeble cheer the Dane To our cheering... | |
 | Honor, Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1856 - 108 pages
...van the fleeter rush'd O'er the deadly space between. " Hearts of oak ! " our captain cried ; when each gun From its adamantine lips Spread a death-shade...the ships, Like the hurricane eclipse Of the sun. IV. Again ! again ! again ! And the havoc did not slack, Till a feeble cheer the Dane To our cheering... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 pages
...van the fleeter rushed O'er the deadly space between. " Hearts of Oak ! " our captains cried, when each gun, From its adamantine lips, Spread a death-shade...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... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1857 - 334 pages
...her van the fleeter rush'd O'er the deadly space between. " Hearts of oak !" our captains cried; when each gun From its adamantine lips Spread a death-shade...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 : —... | |
 | Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 pages
...her van the fleeter rushed O'er the deadly space between. " Hearts of oak !" our captain cried ; when each gun From its adamantine lips Spread a death-shade...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... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...her van the fleeter rush'd O'er the deadly space between. "Hearts of oak !" our captains cried ; when each gun From its adamantine lips Spread a death-shade...Their shots along the deep slowly boom ; — Then cease — and all is wail, As they strike the shatter'd sail ; Or, in conflagration pale, Light the... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American poetry - 1858 - 642 pages
...England flush' d To anticipate the scene ; And her van the fleeter rush'd O'er the deadly space between. From its adamantine lips Spread a death-shade round...back ; Their shots along the deep slowly boom : Then ecas'd — and all is wail, As they strike the shatter'd sail ; Or, in conflagration pale, Light the... | |
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Again ! again ! again ! And the havoc did not slack, Till a feeble cheer the Dane To our cheering sent us 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... 
