 | 1884 - 952 Seiten
...2. London. 3. Oxford. 4. Northampton. 5. Appleby. 6. Maidstone. 7. Portsmouth. 8. Newcastle. MISSING Toll for the brave! The brave that are no more ! All sunk beneath the wave, Fast by their native shore." Cowfer, "The Loss of the Royal George." SQUARE WORD. i. ROSA 2. OMEN. 3. SEEN. HISTORICAL... | |
 | Montgomery Belgion - 1950 - 312 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 Seiten
...of thoughts that made it ache, And force me to a smile. (1. 33—36) On the Loss of the Royal George what remains behind; (1. 177-180) 85 In the faith that looks through death, In years that b native shore. (1. 1—4) EBEV; FaPoR; FiP; GN; GTBS; GTBS-P; NOBE; TrGrPo On the Receipt of My Mother's... | |
 | William Galvani - 1999 - 236 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Virginia Woolf - 2001 - 500 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Tim Ecott - 2002 - 380 Seiten
...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; All 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... | |
 | John Harding - 2007 - 276 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Adam Hochschild - 2006 - 500 Seiten
...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: All 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... | |
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Toll for the brave! The brave that are no more! All sunk beneath the wave, Fast by their native shore ! Eight hundred of the brave, Whose courage well was tried, Had made the vessel heel, And laid her on her side. A land-breeze shook the shrouds, And... 
