 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 444 pages
...Was his best Friend above. MF TUPPER. XXXIX. — ON THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE. SEPTEMBER, 1782. TOLL for the brave ! the brave that are no more !...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... | |
 | Montgomery Belgion - 1950 - 312 pages
...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 of Cowper's.... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...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...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... | |
 | William Galvani - 1999 - 236 pages
...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 100 guns, capsized... | |
 | Virginia Woolf - 2001 - 500 pages
...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 Walt Whitman... | |
 | Tim Ecott - 2002 - 380 pages
...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;...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
...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 known to float... | |
 | Adam Hochschild - 2006 - 500 pages
...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:...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... 
