 With all her crew complete. Toll for the brave ! Brave Kempenfelt is gone ; His last sea-fight is fought ; His work of glory done. It was not in the battle ; No tempest gave the shock ; She sprang no fatal leak ; She ran upon no rock. His sword was in...  Works: Life and Letters - Page 80by William Cowper - 1835Full view - About this book
 | J. Bradshawe Walker - 1853 - 166 pages
...expressed in the ballad tone of Cowper's immortal lines, written for all who had a heart to feel. ' It was not in the battle, No tempest gave the shock, She sprang 110 fatal kak, She ran upon no rock. When Kempenfelt went down With twice four hundred men ! His sword... | |
 | William Cowper - 1853 - 800 pages
...overset ; Down went the Royal George, With all her crew complete. Toll for the brave ! Brave Kenjpenfclt is gone : His last sea-fight is fought ; His work of glory done »t was not in the battle ; No tempest gave the shock ; She sprang no fatal leal; ; She ran upon no... | |
 | William Cowper, Henry Stebbing - 1854 - 850 pages
...Royal George* With all her crew complete* 808 MINOR POEMS. Toll for the brave ! Brave Keiupenft'lt is gone ; His last sea-fight is fought; His work of...no fatal leak; She ran upon no rock. His sword was hi its sheath ; His fingers held the pen, When Kenipenfelt went down With twice four hundred men. Weigh... | |
 | Frances Osborne - 1854 - 216 pages
...Toll for the brave, Brave Kempenfeldt is gone ; His last sea-fight is fought, His work of fclory dona It was not in the battle ; No tempest gave the shock...was in its sheath ; His fingers held the pen ; When Kempeufeldt went down. With twice four hundred men.' " OCEANUS abounds with interesting anecdotes,... | |
 | 1854 - 590 pages
...perished. My earliest recollections of this calamitous event are associated with Cowper's lines, " It was not in the battle; No tempest gave the shock...She ran upon no rock. His sword was in its sheath; Ilia finders held the pen ; When Kempenfelt went down With twice four hundred mea." It is s singularly... | |
 | William Cowper - 1854 - 486 pages
...breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset ; Down went the Royal George, With all her crew complete. Toll for the brave ! Brave Kempenfelt is gone ; His...last sea-fight is fought ; His work of glory done. ON THE LOSS OF THE BOTAL GEOEGE. 233 It was not in the battle ; No tempest gave the shock ; She sprang... | |
 | William Cowper - 1854 - 488 pages
...shook the shrouds, And she was overset ; Down went the Royal George, With all her crew complete. 4 Toll for the brave ! Brave Kempenfelt is gone ; His...last sea-fight is fought ; His work of glory done. 5 It was not in the battle ; No tempest gave the shock ; She sprang no fatal leak ; She ran upon no... | |
 | John Wilson, John Gibson Lockhart - 1854 - 494 pages
...ringing with the doleful changes of your eternal toll, toll, toll ? Tickler. Tol de rol—(sings.) "Toll for the brave! Brave Kempenfelt is gone! His last sea-fight is fought, His race of glory run !"* Mullion. Well, if you mean Mr. North, you will at least allow that " When Kempenfelt... | |
 | John Wilson, John Gibson Lockhart, James Hogg - 1854 - 508 pages
...ringing with the doleful changes of your eternal toll, toll, toll 1 Tickler. Tol de rol — (sings.) "Toll for the brave! Brave Kempenfelt is gone ! His last sea-fight is fought, His race of glory run !"* Mullion. Well, if you mean Mr. North, you will at least allow that " When Kempenfelt... | |
 | William Cowper - 1854 - 806 pages
...breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset ; Down went the Royal George, With all her crew complete. Toll for the brave ! Brave Kempenfelt is gone : His last sea-fight is fought ; THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE. 113 A was not in the battle ; No tempest gave the shock ; She sprang... | |
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