 | Select collection - 1806 - 322 strani
...fore-yard—cheer, lads, cheer ! Now the dreadful thunder's roaring, Peal on peal contending dash ; On our heads fierce rain falls pouring, In our eyes...surround us : Hark ! what means that dreadful cry ? The fore-mast's gone, cries ev'ry tongue out, O'er the lee, twelve feet 'bove deck ! A leak beneath the... | |
 | William Falconer, James Stanier Clarke - 1806 - 294 strani
...Boreas : in this passage additional testimony seems to arise, that it was composed by FALCONER : " In our eyes blue Lightnings flash : One wide Water all around us, All above us one black Sky !" PAGE 76. 1. 22 the booming Waters roar, Beautifully expressive of their violence : thus Young- •... | |
 | George Ashburner - 1807 - 238 strani
...Man the fore-yards ; cheer, lads, cheer ! SLOw. .Now the dreadful thunder's roaring! Peals on peals contending clash! On our heads fierce rain falls pouring!...wide water all around us, All above us one black sky ! Biff 'rent deaths at once surround us; Hark ! what means that dreadful cry ? CiUICK. The foremast's... | |
 | 1819 - 394 strani
...up, each preventure brace set, ' Man the fore-yard ; cheer, lads, cheer !' Now the dreadful thunder roaring, Peal on peal contending clash ; On our heads...blue lightnings flash. One wide water all around us, AD above us one black sky, Different deaths at once surround us, Hark ! what means that dreadful cry... | |
 | Roundelay - 1815 - 260 strani
...fore-yard ; cheer, lads, cheer ! Now the dreadful thunder's roaring ; Peal on peal contending clash ! One wide water all around us ! All above us one black sky ! Diff'rent deaths at once surround us ! Hark ! what means that dreadful cry ? The foremast 's gone... | |
 | Scottish songs - 1816 - 320 strani
...brace set; Man the fore-yard ; cheer, lads, cheer ! Now the dreadful thunder's roaring ! Peals on peals contending clash ! On our heads fierce rain falls...wide water all around us, All above us one black sky ! Diff'rent deaths at once surround us, Hark! what means that dreadful cry? The foremast's gone, cries... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 strani
...Hands up, each preventure-brace set, Man the fore-yard, cheer, lads, chetr! Now the dreadful thunder's roaring, Peal on peal contending clash, On our heads...eyes blue lightnings flash; One wide water all around OS ; All above us one black sky; Different deaths at once surround us: Hark! what means that dreadful... | |
 | Thomas Amory - 1823 - 358 strani
...did all they could invent to render my life miserable. '> \ c5 CHAPTER IV. Now the dreadful thunder's roaring, Peal on peal contending clash, On our heads...once surround us, Hark ! what means that dreadful cry ? ON the first day of May then, early in the morning, as the clock struck one, I mounted my excellent... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 strani
...brace set, man the foreyard, cheer, lads, cheer. Now the dreadful thunder's roaring ! peals on peals contending clash ! On our heads fierce rain falls...light'nings flash. One wide water all around us, all above but one black sky 1 Different deaths at once surround us : hark ! what means yon dreadful cry ? The... | |
 | 1830 - 830 strani
...moored having allowed her to swing. All dry land had disappeared in the darkness of the night, and " One wide water all around us, All above us one black sky," mained firm in its position, after a short time we were relieved by finding it recede to its natural... | |
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Now the dreadful thunder's roaring, Peal on peal contending clash, On our heads fierce rain falls pouring, In our eyes blue lightnings flash. One wide water all around us, All above us one black sky... 
