 | William Beattie - 1849 - 480 pagine
...To the batteries which they brought, Like Leviathans afloat In the brine. 6. It was ten of Thursday morn, By the chime, As they drifted on their path...death, And the boldest held his breath For a time — 7. Ere a first and fatal round Shook the flood ; Every Dane looked out that day, Like the red wolf... | |
 | 1849 - 588 pagine
...nought To the batteries which they brought, Like Leviathans afloat In the brine. It was ten of Thursday morn, By the chime, As they drifted on their path...death, And the boldest held his breath For a time — Ere a first and fatal round Shook the flood ; Every Dane looked out that day, Like the red wolf... | |
 | William Beattie - 1850 - 570 pagine
...others more or less altered, while it was passing through the press. 6. It was ten of Thursday mom, By the chime, As they drifted on their path There...deep as death, And the boldest held his breath For a lime — 7. Ere a first and fatal round Shook the flood , Kvery Dane looked out that day, Like the... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 pagine
...determined hand, And the prinee of all the land Led them on. ii. Like leviathans afloat, Lay their bnlwarks on the brine ; While the sign of battle flew On the...lofty British line : It was ten of April morn by the ehime : As they drifted on their path, There was silenee deep as death ; And the boldest held his breath... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1851 - 332 pagine
...lighted brand, In a bold determined hand. And the prince of all the land, Led them on. Like leviathans afloat, Lay their bulwarks on the brine While the...held his breath For a time. But the might of England flusb'd, To anticipate the scene ; And her van the fleeter rush'd O'er the deadly space between. "... | |
 | 1851 - 278 pagine
...them on. Like Leviathans afloat Lay their bulwarks on the brine ; IWhile the sign of battle flew 3On the lofty British line ; It was ten of April morn,...held his breath For a time. But the might of England flush' d To anticipate the scene ; And her van the fleeter rush'd O'er the deadly space between. "... | |
 | 1851 - 608 pagine
...music of the metre is surpassingly fine : our own breath is suspended at the glorious stanza ending As they drifted on their path, There was silence deep...death, And the boldest held his breath For a time. And how easily he melts us, amid the joy of victory und the festal city's blaze, whilst the wine-cup... | |
 | 1859 - 748 pagine
...rages loud and long, And the stormy tempests blow.' One gem from 'The Battle of the Baltic:' — ' There was silence deep as death, And the boldest held his breath For a time.' But our space warns us to be chary of quotations. A few detached couplets from ' The Pleasures of Hope'... | |
 | 1852 - 782 pagine
...the following very short and simple description of the British fleet bearing op to close action : " As they drifted on their path. There was silence deep as death ! And the boldest held his breaih For a lime.—"—p. 109. sand stan zas of Uumdet, ahueY.*, ¿uovrt»., VciThe description of... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1858 - 586 pagine
...trust to their bayonets alone, while the English on their part waited until they drew near. " There wat silence deep as death, And the boldest held his breath For a time." When the Americans were within ten rode of the British lines, the word was given by the latter to fire,... | |
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Nelson and the North Sing the glorious day's renown, When to battle fierce came forth All the might of Denmark's crown, And her arms along the deep proudly shone; By each gun the lighted brand In a bold determined hand, And the Prince of all the land... 
