| Andrew Comstock - 1841 - 410 páginas
...burning decA, | Whence all but him had fled ; | The flame that lit the battle's wrecA, | Shone round Aim o'er the dead. | Yet beautiful and bright he stood,...; | A creature of heroic blood, | A proud, though child-liAe form. | The flames roll'd on — | he would not go, | Without Ais father's word;| That father,... | |
| Mrs. Hemans - 1842 - 372 páginas
...on that spot where fate had given CASABIANCA.1 THE boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shone...blood, A proud, though child-like form. The flames roll'd on — he would not go Without his Father's word; That Father, faint in death below, His voice... | |
| Felicia Dorothea Hemans - 1845 - 360 páginas
...own sweet paths in search of thee ! CASABIANCA.* THE boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck,...blood, A proud, though child-like form. The flames roll'd on — he would not go Without his Father's word ; That Father, faint in death below, His voice... | |
| William Russell - 1843 - 192 páginas
...and Paul and Anne | received a great many half-pence, from the travellers. LESSON LI. CASABLANCA.* THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but...de'ad ; Yet beautiful and bright he stood , As born to rille the storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud, though child-like form. The flames roll'd on... | |
| 1843 - 826 páginas
...ship had taken fire. There was no one to order him to quit, and lie nobly perished at his post. *" The boy stood on the burning deck. Whence all but...the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead. * Mrs. Hr-mans. " Yet beautiful and bright he stood As born to rule the storm, A creature of heroic... | |
| William Russell - 1843 - 180 páginas
...and Paul and Anne | received a great many hdlf-pence, from the travellers. LESSON LI. CASABLANCA.* THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but...lit the battle's wreck, Shone round him | o'er the d^ad ; Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm ; A creature of heretic blood,... | |
| sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1843 - 828 páginas
...deck Whence all Iwt he had fled ; The flame that iit the battle's wivek Shone round him on the dend. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm ; » A crenture of heroic blood. A proud, though child-like form. The flames rolled on — he would not go... | |
| William Russell - 1844 - 428 páginas
...iambic feet; and the second and fourth, six syllables, or three feet; as in the following example : " The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but him...creature of heroic blood, A proud though childlike form." A less common form of the iambic stanza is that in which no verse contains more than three iambic feet... | |
| English poetry - 1844 - 70 páginas
...Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long. MILTON. CASABIANCA.* THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but...the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. * Young Casabianca, a boy about thirteen years old, son to the admiral of the Orient, remained at his... | |
| John Epy Lovell - 1844 - 900 páginas
...Young Ca.ablanra, a boy about thirte ' post (in the wen abandon ached the po rem •II tl Ui« Dame The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but him...had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, fehone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm ; A creature... | |
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