 | William Cowper - 1831 - 410 pages
...sincerest, so secure ON THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE. WRITTEN WHEN THE NEWS ARRIVED. TO THE MARCH IN SCIPIO. TOLL for the brave! The brave that are no more ! All...made the vessel heel, And laid her on her side. A land breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset ; Down went the Royal George, With all her crew... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1832 - 846 pages
...elegy : 'ON THE LOSS OF THE EOTAL GEORGE. (Tu the Marcii in Scipio.] WRITTEN WHEN THE NEWS AKSIVID. Toll for the brave ! The brave that are no more !...went the Royal George, With all her crew complete. Toll for the brave ! Brave Kempenfeldt is gone ; His last sea-tight is fought ; His work of glory done.... | |
 | 1832 - 406 pages
...melancholy occurrence has been recorded by the poet, Cowper, in the following beautiful lines: — TOLL for the brave ! The brave, that are no more !...shook the shrouds, And she was overset ; Down went the Royai George, With all her crew complete. Toll for the brave ! Brave Kcmpenfcldt is gone ; His last... | |
 | Enoch Cobb Wines - 1832 - 282 pages
...by a sudden squall of wind, and whose loss Cowper has celebrated in that well known ode, beginning : "Toll for the brave! The brave that are no more; All...sunk beneath the wave Fast by their native shore." We had scarcely lost sight of the white cliffs of Albion, when the whiter and bolder cliffs of France... | |
 | 1875 - 1132 pages
...battle — No tempest gave the shock ; She sprang no fatal leak ; She ran upon no rock ! A land breeze shook the shrouds And she was overset ; Down went the Royal George, With all her crew complete." She went down in 1782 ; fifty-seven years after, her guns and stores were recovered, and the ship was... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 370 pages
...subsequent letters, for the sake of annexing it to the original. SONG, ON THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE. Toll for the brave ! The brave that are no more !...went the Royal George, With all her crew complete. VOL. n. G Toll for the brave ! Brave Kempenfelt is gone ; His last sea-fight is fought ; His work of... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 620 pages
...Austen, was written in the September following.] TOLL for the brave ! The brave that are no more I All sunk beneath the wave, Fast by their native shore...made the vessel heel, And laid her on her side. A land breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset ; Down went the Royal George, With all her crew... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 460 pages
...ista fugit. ON THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE. WRITTEN WHEN THE NEWS ARRIVED. TO THE MARCH IN SCIPIO. TOLL for the brave ! The brave that are no more !...sunk beneath the wave, Fast by their native shore ! EE 2 Eight hundred of the brave, Whose courage well was tried, Had made the vessel heel, And laid... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 382 pages
...subsequent letters, for the sake of annexing it to the original. SONG, ON THE LOSS OF THE EOYAL GEORGE. Toll for the brave ! The brave that are no more !...sunk beneath the wave, Fast by their native shore ! Ei»ht hundred of the brave. Whose courage well was tried, Had made the vessel heel, And laid her... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 464 pages
...LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE. WRITTEN WHEN THE NEWS ARRIVED. TO THE MARCH IN SCIPIO. TOLL for the brave I The brave that are no more ! All sunk beneath the wave, Fast by their native shore ! EE 2 Eight hundred of the brave, Whose courage well was tried, Had made the vessel heel, And laid... | |
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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... 
