 | William Hayley - 1803 - 348 pages
...depreffive illnefs, he amufed himfelf by tranflating it into Latin verfe. SONG III. ON THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE. TOLL for the brave! The brave ! that are no more ! All funk beneath the wave, Faft by their native fhore. Eight hundred of the brave, Whofe courage well was... | |
 | Children - 530 pages
...The image highly poetical, in all the whiteness of the pure, cold Parian, spoke volumes to the heart. "Toll for the brave ! The brave that are no more ! All sunk beneath the ware, Fast by their native shore ! " Little Edward gave a sigh as I repeated Cowp«r's words — lor... | |
 | Ballads, English - 1819 - 394 pages
...the tempests cease to blow ! SONG LXXXHI, ON THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE. BY WILLIAM COWFBR, ESQ. TOLL for the brave ! The brave, that are no more ! All sunk beneath the wave, Eight hundred of the brave, Whose courage well was tried, Had made the vessel heel, And laid her on... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 pages
...jiWBiJg Man, rising from the ruins of his fall, Is one with God, and God is all in all ! ON THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE. TOLL for the brave! The brave that...wave, Fast by their native shore. Eight hundred of the biave, Whose courage well was tried, Had made the vessel 'heel, And laid her on her side. A land-breeze... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...Retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening know. VERSKS ON THE LOSS OP THE HOYAL GEORGE. Ton. for the brave ! The brave that are no more ! All sunk...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... | |
 | George Jones - Mediterranean Region - 1829 - 320 pages
...Cowper has commemorated the event by a little poem, beginning with " Toll for the brave, The brave are no more ; All sunk beneath the wave, Fast by their native shore." Monday, 24. — One of the marines died last night; the second man we have lost, since we left home.... | |
 | Civilization - 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 !...made the vessel heel, And laid her on her side. A land-breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset ; Down went the Royai George, With all her crew... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Anecdotes - 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 !...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... | |
 | Enoch Cobb Wines - Mediterranean Region - 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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 370 pages
...from one of his 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...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... | |
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Toll for the brave! The brave that are no more! All sunk beneath the wave, Fast by their native shore ! Eight hundred of the brave, Whose courage well was tried, Had made the vessel heel, And laid her on her side. A land-breeze shook the shrouds, And... 
