 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...when its whole crew, consisting of 800 souls, with the unfortunate Admiral Kempenfeldt, perished. " Toll for the brave! The brave that are no more, All...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 complete.... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1884 - 436 pages
...emotional. Take as an instance the " Loss of the Royal George " : — " Toll for the brave, The brave who are no more, All sunk beneath the wave Fast by their...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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1846 - 310 pages
...LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE. [To the March in Scipio.] WRITTEN WHEN THE MEWS ARRIVED. [September, 1782.] TOLL for the brave ! The brave that are no more, All...made the vessel heel, And laid her on her side. A land breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset ; 247 Down went the Royal George, With all her crew... | |
 | Tales - 1847 - 336 pages
...when the report of the event reached him, will fitly close this account of so disastrous a wreck. " Toll for the brave ! The brave that are no more !...made the vessel heel , And laid her on her side. " A land-beeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset ; Down went the Royal George, With all her crew complete.... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1849 - 740 pages
...TRANSLATIONS. ON THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE (TO TUB MARCH IN SCIPJO.) WRITTEN WHEN THE NEWS ARRIVED. 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... | |
 | Frances Osborne - Geography - 1850 - 344 pages
...written some touching lines on this awful calamity, with which we will wind up the subject: — ' " •> "'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 complete.... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1913 - 586 pages
...much wind at the time. The real cause of the sinking of the vessel is given in the previous stanza : Eight hundred of the brave, Whose courage well was...Had made the vessel heel And laid her on her side. The standard authority on th? history of our Navy — Clowes's ' Royal Navy ' — lias a very brief... | |
 | Charles Mackay - Ballads, English - 1851 - 332 pages
...statesmen and king." Hearts of oak, <kc. THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE. WILLUM COWPEE, born 1731, died 1800. 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 Eoyal George With all her crew complete.... | |
 | Frances Osborne - 1851 - 332 pages
...has written some touching lines on this awful calamity, with which we will wind up the subject: — "'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 complete.... | |
 | Fanny Osborne - Geography - 1852 - 394 pages
...the brave I The brave that are no more I All sunk beneath the wave, Fast by their native shore I " ' Eight hundred of the brave, Whose courage well was...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... 
