 | Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 pages
...; While the sign of battle flew On the lofty British line : It was ten of April morn by the chime : As they drifted on their path, There was silence deep...O'er the deadly space between. " Hearts of oak !" our captain cried ; when each gun From its adamantine lips Spread a death-shade round the ships, Like the... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1857 - 334 pages
...brine, While the sign of battle flew On the lofty British line : It was ten of April morn by the chime, As they drifted on their path ; There was silence...held his breath For a time. But the might of England flush'd, To anticipate the scene ; And her van the fleeter rush'd O'er the deadly space between. "... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - American poetry - 1857 - 436 pages
...; While the sign of battle flew On the lofty British line : It was ten of April morn by the chime : As they drifted on their path, There was silence deep...his breath For a time. — But the might of England flush'd To anticipate the scene ; And her van the fleeter rush'd O'er the deadly space between. " Hoarts... | |
 | English literature - 1857 - 594 pages
...directed to the little hand which worked playfully among the papers ere it made its choice. Then 1 There was silence deep as death, And the boldest held his breath, For a time.' This silence was broken by a trumpeter on the scaffold, whose consequential notes, re-echoed by the... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...the While the sign of battle fl On the lofty British line : It was ten of April morn by the chime. As they drifted on their path There was silence deep...his breath For a time. . But the might of England flush'd To anticipate the scene ; And her van the fleeter rush'd O'er the deadly space between. "Hearts... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 pages
...; While the sign of battle flew On the lofty British line : It was ten of April morn by the chime ; As they drifted on their path, There was silence deep...held his breath For a time. But the might of England flush'd To anticipate the scene ; And her van the fleeter rush'd O'er the deadly space between 1 "... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1859 - 424 pages
...battle flew On the lofty British line : It was ten of April morn by the chime : As they drifted on (heir path, There was silence deep as death ; And the boldest...his breath, For a time. — But the might of England flush'd To anticipate the scene ; And her van the fleeter rush'd O'er the deadly space between. 1 Hearts... | |
 | Charles Richard Weld - Pyrenees - 1859 - 454 pages
...ever, for his companions were unable to render him the slightest assistance. " As he drifted on his path, There was silence deep as death, And the boldest held his breath For a time." Bracing my nerves, I resumed my slippery walk, taking care to hold my guide's hand, and resting occasionally.... | |
 | 1859 - 782 pages
...not himself, skirrs down the ice, and over the edge into space ; well may he say with Campbell— " There was silence deep as death, And the boldest held his breath For a time." He continues the ascent, being sufficiently recovered to observe and very well to describe what he... | |
 | American periodicals - 1860 - 894 pages
...batteries which they brought Like leviathans afloat On the brine. It was ten of Sunday morn By the chime : As they drifted on their path, There was silence deep...death, And the boldest held his breath For a time. Ere я first and fatal sound Shook the flood ; Each Dane looked out that day, Like the red wolf on... | |
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Like leviathans afloat Lay their bulwarks on the brine, While the sign of battle flew On the lofty British line ; It was ten of April morn by the chime. As they drifted on their path There was silence deep as death, And the boldest held his breath For... 
