 | Caroline Lee Hentz - 1869 - 302 pages
...himself Would proudly call his daughter." — MART HOWITT. "There beautiful and bright he itood — Aa born to rule the storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud, though child-like form."— HEMAHS. PHILADELPHIA: TB PETERSON & BROTHERS; 306 CHESTNUT STREET. I1"3 JUBVARD COLLEGE LIBRAW SHELDON... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1853 - 666 pages
...violent effort of a distempered fancy." CASABIANCA* THE boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck,...blood, A proud, though child-like form. The flames roll'd on — he would not go Without his Father's word ; That Father, faint in death below, His voice... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1853 - 420 pages
..." young stranger, thou art free ! " CASABIANCA. THE boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck,...blood, A proud, though child-like form. The flames roll'd on — he would not go Without his Father's word ; He call'd aloud : — " Say, Father, say... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1853 - 456 pages
...buf him had fled ; \ The flame thai lit the battle's wrecA, 1 Shone round Aim o'er the dead. | Yei beautiful and bright he stood, \ As born to rule the...; ! A creature of heroic blood, | A proud, though child-liAe form. I The flames roll'd on — i he would not go, ' Without Ais father's word;] Thai father,... | |
 | David Bates Tower - English language - 1853 - 204 pages
...when the flames had reached the powder. This is an instance of obedience even unto death.] 1. THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled ; The flame that Jit the- battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead. 2. Yet beautiful and bright he stood As born... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1854 - 398 pages
...feet; and the second and fourth, six syllables, or three feet; as in the following example : "The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but him had fled...creature of heroic blood, A proud though childlike form." A less common form of the iambic stanza is that in which no verse contains more than three iambic feet... | |
 | Elocution - 1854 - 576 pages
...vessel, when the flame! had reached the powder. Tits boy stood on the burning deck, whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck shone...of heroic blood, a proud, though child-like form. • Speak, Father ! " once again he cried, " if I may yet be gone ! And " — but the booming shots... | |
 | Conrad Hume Pinches - Elocution - 1854 - 460 pages
...CASABIANCA. THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but he had fled; The flame that lit the battle wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful...rule the storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud, tho' child-like form. The flames roll'd on — he would not go, Without his father's word ; That father,... | |
 | Seafaring life - 1854 - 504 pages
...be. lamented, who died so full of honors, and at the height of human fame. CASABIANCA.* The boy otood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled ;...the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead. • Young Caaabtanea, a boy about thirteen yeara old, son to .In- admiral of the Orient, remained at... | |
 | Caroline Lee Hentz - 1854 - 376 pages
...motives that actuated us. CAROLINE LEE HENTZ. Columbus, Georgia. THE LONG MOSS SPRING. CHAPTER I. " There beautiful and bright he stood — As born to rule...of heroic blood, A proud, though child-like form." HEMANS. " HARK 1" exclaimed Warland, rising from his chair and walking with an unsteady step to the... | |
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THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud, though child-like... 
