 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...ache, And force me to a smile. (1. 33—36) On the Loss of the Royal George Toll for the brave — 1. 177-180) 85 In the faith that looks through death, In years that bring the philo (1. 1—4) EBEV; FaPoR; FiP; GN; GTBS; GTBS-P; NOBE; TrGrPo On the Receipt of My Mother's Picture out... | |
 | Virginia Woolf - 2001 - 500 pages
...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 Walt Whitman... | |
 | Tim Ecott - 2002 - 380 pages
...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 all her crew... | |
 | John Harding - 2007 - 276 pages
...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 known to float... | |
 | Adam Hochschild - 2006 - 500 pages
...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 four hundred... | |
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A land-breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset; Down went the Royal George, With all her crew complete. Toll for the brave! Brave Kempenfelt is gone; His last sea-fight is fought; His work of glory done. It was not in the battle; No tempest gave... 
