| Ballads, English - 1781 - 384 pages
...fore-yard, cheat, lads, chear; Now the dreadful thunders roaring, Peals on peals contending daft ; On our heads fierce rain falls pouring, In our eyes blue lightnings flafli i One wide water all around us, All above but one black iky ; Different dtaths at once Curround... | |
| Goldfinch - 1782 - 318 pages
...fore-yard ; cheer, lads, cheer. Now the dreadful thunder's roaring ! Peals on peals contending clafn ! On our heads fierce rain falls pouring, In our eyes blue lightnings flam. One wide water all around us, All above but one black iky ! Diff'rent deaths at once furround... | |
| Ballads, English - 1783 - 360 pages
...the fore-yard, chear, lads, chcar! Now the dreatiful thunder roaring, Peal on peal contending clafh, On our heads fierce rain falls pouring, In our eyes blue lightnings fiaflu One wide water all around us, All above us one black fky, Different deaths at once furround... | |
| James Stanier Clarke, Stephen Jones, John Jones - Europe - 1799 - 714 pages
...preventure brace set,' Man die fore yard, cheer, lads, cheer ! Now the dreadful thunder's roaring, Peal on peal contending clash, On our heads fierce...that dreadful .cry ? . The foremast's gone, cries ev'ry tongue out, O'er the lee, twelve feet 'bove deck ; A leak beneath the chest-tree's sprung out,... | |
| Charles Henry Wilson - English ballads and songs - 1803 - 228 pages
...peace; — but, when she is fir'd, O' then the brave tars I 65 Now the dreadful thunder's roaring, Pt-al on peal contending clash, On our heads fierce rain...surround us : Hark! what means that dreadful cry ? The forecast's gone^ cries ev'ry tongue out, O'er the lee, twelve feet 'bovc deck ; A leak beneath the... | |
| William Falconer, James Stanier Clarke - Shipwrecks - 1804 - 292 pages
...rude Boreas : in this passage additional testimony seems to arise, that it was composed by FALCONER: " In our eyes blue Lightnings flash : One wide Water all around us, All above uj one black Sky !" PAGE 76. 1.18 the booming Waters roar, Beautifully expressive of their violence... | |
| Select collection - 1806 - 322 pages
...fore-yard—cheer, lads, cheer ! Now the dreadful thunder's roaring, Peal on peal contending dash ; On our heads fierce rain falls pouring, In our eyes...means that dreadful cry ? The fore-mast's gone, cries ev'ry tongue out, O'er the lee, twelve feet 'bove deck ! A leak beneath the chest-tree's sprung out... | |
| William Falconer, James Stanier Clarke - English poetry - 1806 - 294 pages
...Boreas : in this passage additional testimony seems to arise, that it was composed by FALCONER : " In our eyes blue Lightnings flash : One wide Water all around us, All above us one black Sky !" PAGE 76. 1. 22 the booming Waters roar, Beautifully expressive of their violence : thus Young- •... | |
| George Ashburner - 1807 - 238 pages
...Man the fore-yards ; cheer, lads, cheer ! SLOw. .Now the dreadful thunder's roaring! Peals on peals contending clash! On our heads fierce rain falls pouring!...wide water all around us, All above us one black sky ! Biff 'rent deaths at once surround us; Hark ! what means that dreadful cry ? CiUICK. The foremast's... | |
| Ballads, English - 1819 - 394 pages
...preventure brace set, ' Man the fore-yard ; cheer, lads, cheer !' Now the dreadful thunder roaring, Peal on peal contending clash ; On our heads fierce...blue lightnings flash. One wide water all around us, AD above us one black sky, Different deaths at once surround us, Hark ! what means that dreadful cry... | |
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