 | 1902 - 642 páginas
...Buffs,' with its noble moral : ' Vain, mightiest fleets of iron framed ; Vain, those all-shattering guns ; Unless proud England keep, untamed, The strong...firm as Sparta's king, Because his soul was great.' The desperate and heroic race-struggle in India in the summer of 1857 has hardly found its poet. Tennyson's... | |
 | 1861 - 788 páginas
...brink, To his red grave he went. Vain, mightiest fleets, of iron framed ; Vain, those all-shattering guns ; Unless proud England keep, untamed, The strong...firm as Sparta's king, Because his soul was great. HORSE-BKEAKING IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. SINCE the day when to man was given dominion over the fish... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1863 - 314 páginas
...mightiest fleet of iron framed— Vain those all-shattering guns, Unless proud England keep unstained The strong heart of her sons. So let his name through...firm as Sparta's king, Because his soul was great. * The Buffs, or West Kent Regiment. MULY MOLUC. When Don Sebastian, king of Portugal, invaded the territories... | |
 | Sir Francis Hastings Doyle - 1866 - 392 páginas
...brink, To his red grave he went. Vain, mightiest fleets, of iron framed ; Vain, those all-shattering guns ; Unless proud England keep, untamed, The strong...firm as Sparta's king, Because his soul was great. LADY AGNES. This story is quoted by Mr. Ferrier in his '' Theory of Apparitions, from Barton's "Anatomy... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 páginas
...mightiest fleets, of iron framed ; Vain, those all-shattering guns ; Unless proud England keep, untamed, 35 The strong heart of her sons. So, let his name through...firm as Sparta's king, Because his soul was great. 40 Sir Francis Hastings Doyle. CCLXXIV ON A PICTURE BY TURNER. See how the small concentrate fiery... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 páginas
...dreadful brink, To his red grave he went. Vain mightiest fleets of iron framed, Vain those all-shattering 2 SIR FRANCIS HASTINGS DOYLE. CAVALRY SONG. FROM " ALICE OF MONMOUTH." OUR good steeds snuff the evening... | |
 | Joachim Hayward Stocqueler - 1871 - 394 páginas
...dreadful brink To his red grave he went. Vnin, mightiest fleets of iron framed, Vain, those all shattering guns, Unless proud England keep, untamed, The strong...So let his name through Europe ring A man of mean estât?, Who died as firm as Spnrta's King, Because his soul was great. • Lord Elgin was, at this... | |
 | 1872 - 900 páginas
...dreadful brink, To his red grave he went. Vain mightiest fleets of iron framed, Vain those all-shattering me on which the muse might soar, High as thine own...The hearts within thy valleys bred, The fiery sou ns Sparta's king, Because his soul was great. SIR FRANCIS HASTINGS DOYLE. CAVALRY SONG. FROM " ALICE... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1872 - 396 páginas
...of iron framed ; Vain, those all-shattering guns ; • Unless proud England keep, untamed, W < Ed M The strong heart of her sons. So, let his name through Europe ring — A man of mean estate, H H X O T o z 8 Who died, as firm as Sparta's king,* Because his soul was great. [Sir FRANCIS HASTINGS... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - 1872 - 168 páginas
...guns ; Unless proud England keep, untamed, A man of mean estate, Who died, as firm as Sparta's king The strong heart of her sons. So, let his name through Europe ring— Because his soul was great. THE OCEAN.--Byron. ROLL on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean—roll! Ten thousand... | |
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He put the vision by ; Let dusky Indians whine and kneel, An English lad must die. And .thus, with eyes that would not shrink, With knee to man unbent, Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, To his red grave he went Vain mightiest fleets of iron framed, Vain... 
