 | Walter Colton - California - 1850 - 430 pages
...threatening strength reminds one of the terrific lines of Campbell, in the Battle of the Baltic :— " When each gun, From its adamantine lips, Spread a death-shade round the ships Like the hurricane's eclipse Of the sun." SATURDAY, DEC. 13. A booby was seen last even, ing, at sunset, circling... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - English poetry - 1850 - 596 pages
...British line : It was ten of April morn by the ehime : As they drifted on their path, There was silenee deep as death ; And the boldest held his breath For a time. in. Bnt the might of England flnsh 'd To antieipate the seene ; And her van the fleeter rnsh'd O'er... | |
 | Frederic Charles Cook - 1851 - 118 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. " Hearts... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 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 fleeter8 rush'd O'er the deadly space between. "... | |
 | English language - 1851 - 278 pages
...IWhile the sign of battle flew 3On 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. "... | |
 | American periodicals - 1851 - 608 pages
...music of the metre is surpassingly fine : our own breath is suspended at the glorious stanza ending As they drifted on their path, There was silence deep...death, And the boldest held his breath For a time. And how easily he melts us, amid the joy of victory und the festal city's blaze, whilst the wine-cup... | |
 | 1859 - 748 pages
...rages loud and long, And the stormy tempests blow.' One gem from 'The Battle of the Baltic:' — ' There was silence deep as death, And the boldest held his breath For a time.' But our space warns us to be chary of quotations. A few detached couplets from ' The Pleasures of Hope'... | |
 | Education - 1851 - 412 pages
...for ever in the waters of Navarino ; while at Trafalgar and the Nile, nations held their breath, As each gun From its adamantine lips Spread a death-shade round the ships. Like the hurricane's eclipse Of the sun. But of all the wonders appertaining to the ocean, the greatest, perhaps,... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 782 pages
...the following very short and simple description of the British fleet bearing op to close action : " As they drifted on their path. There was silence deep as death ! And the boldest held his breaih For a lime.—"—p. 109. sand stan zas of Uumdet, ahueY.*, ¿uovrt»., VciThe description of... | |
 | William Shannon - Irish poetry - 1852 - 294 pages
...While the sign of battle flew O'er 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 their breath, For a time. But the might of England flush'd To anticipate the scene ; And her van the... | |
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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... 
