| Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - Počet stránok 540
...— Go, share thy lot with him. CASABIANCA.• 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 childlike form. The flames roll'd on — he would not go, Without his father's word ; That father, faint in death below, His voice... | |
| Mrs. Hemans - 1845 - Počet stránok 382
...alas ! yet joy ! — my son, my son ! 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... | |
| David Bates Tower - 1845 - Počet stránok 176
...vesse., when the flames had reached the powder. This is an instance ?t obedience even unto death.] 1. THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but...the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead. 2. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm, — A creature of heroic blood, A... | |
| William Russell - 1845 - Počet stránok 410
...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 had fled ; The'flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round him, o'er the dead ; " Yet beautiful and bright... | |
| William Russell - 1846 - Počet stránok 394
...iambic feet; and the second and fourth, six syllables, or three feet; as irj 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... | |
| William Harvey Wells - 1847 - Počet stránok 228
...has been shut out from every other prospect for days and weeks together." — Graham's Magazine. " The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled." — Hemans. REM. 6. — " O'clock " is an elliptical expression, contracted from « Of the clock."j... | |
| Allen Hayden Weld - 1848 - Počet stránok 120
...Night shades the groves, and all in silence lie, All sane the mournful Philomel and /. — Young. 23. The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled. — Hemans. 21 The bells sounded soft and pensive. — Chandler. 25. You have not thought it worth... | |
| Allen Hayden Weld - 1848 - Počet stránok 234
...perjured Gods, but Lycon ? For who but he who arched the skies, Could raise the daisy's purple bud ? The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled. — Hemans. ra. FALSE SYNTAX, OR EXAMPLES TO BE CORRECTED ACCORDING TO PREVIOUS RULES OF SYJSTAX. I... | |
| Allen Hayden Weld - 1848 - Počet stránok 240
...perjured Gods, but Lycon ? For who but he who arched the skies, • Could raise the daisy's -purple bud ? The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled. — Hemans. HL FALSE SYNTAX, OR EXAMPLES TO BE CORRECTED ACCORDING TO PREVIOUS RULES OF SYNTAX. I admire... | |
| Charles Northend - 1866 - Počet stránok 172
...been abandoned, and perished in the explosion of V f vessel, when the flames had reached the powder. THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but...blood, A proud, though childlike, form. The flames roiled on — he would not go Without his father's word ; That father, faint in death below, His voice... | |
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