A WET sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast And fills the white and rustling sail And bends the gallant mast; And bends the gallant mast, my boys. While like the eagle free Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee. O for... Biographical and Critical Miscellanies - Stran 590avtor: William Hickling Prescott - 1858 - 729 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
| 1823 - 496 strani
...they refuse to let any one else slip in a word, even edgeways. THE MARINER'S SONG. ALLAN CUNNINGHAM. A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast, And 611s the white and rustling sail, And bends the gallant mast ; And bends the gallant mast, my boys,... | |
| 1826 - 558 strani
...own. The more ancient, after the fashion of Burns and Ramsay, he has varnished over with a coloring of diction, that gives greater lustre to their faded...the gallant mast ! And bends the gallant mast, my boys, While, like the eagle, free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lea. O for... | |
| 1822 - 694 strani
...thirty-eighth year. Propcrtii vita per anno» digería. THE MARINER'S SONG. BY ALLAN CUNNINGHAM. I. A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows...the gallant mast ; And bends the gallant mast, my boys, While, like the eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee. О for... | |
| Allan Cunningham - 1825 - 388 strani
...beneath their feet Shall be a soldier's sepulchre. A WET SHEET AND A FLOWING SEA. ALLAN CUNNINGHAM. A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows...the gallant mast ! And bends the gallant mast, my boys, While, like the eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves O for a soft and gentle wind... | |
| Allan Cunningham - 1825 - 756 strani
...beneath their feet Shall be a soldier's sepulchre. A WET SHEET AND A FLOWING SEA. ALLAN CUNNINGHAM. A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows...bends the gallant mast! And bends the gallant mast, my boys, While, like the eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves O for a soft and gentle wind... | |
| Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1826 - 538 strani
...original pieces, which he has introduced into the present collection, have the vOL. xxin. — NO. 52'. 18 ease and natural vivacity conspicuous in his former...the gallant mast ! And bends the gallant mast, my boys, While, like the eagle, free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lea. O for... | |
| Literary gems - 1826 - 718 strani
...can conceive. GENTLEMAN'S MAG. 1793. THE MARINER'S SONG. ... ....., "..'.. : .. .1:.. . ! .. ' - * .' -A WET sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows...the gallant mast ; And bends the gallant mast, my boysrf" While like an eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee. . ****.... | |
| 1827 - 700 strani
...to be already sufficiently accurate for every purpose of practical astronomy." THE MARINER'S SONG. A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast, And tills the white and rustling sail, And bends the gallant mast ; And bends the gallant mast, my boys... | |
| John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 strani
...tone of her last faint sigh. — And this is man's fidelity ! ALLAN CUNNINGHAM. THE MARINER S SONG. A WET sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows...the gallant mast ; And bends the gallant mast, my boys, While, like the eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee. " O... | |
| Charles Granville Gepp - 1830 - 194 strani
...and with gentle whisper said, " Would that destiny had not united us." EXERCISE CII. (Cunningham). A wet sheet, and a flowing sea, A wind that follows...the gallant mast : And bends the gallant mast, my boys, 5 While, like the eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee. 1,... | |
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