Elocutionary Leaflets ..., Tema 11882 |
Términos y frases comunes
barrel-organ Blankets and Top-Boots blew blow blue Bob-o'-link bobolink breast Cannibal Islands Cannibals chee cheers Chops coasting pilot cried Damfreville dark dear derefore Don Camillo Donald door dying eyes face feet fight fleet France gaze glory Gobbleton gone Grève grew hair hand heard heart Hervé Riel hill Hundred-the Heavy Brigade Hurray keep kiss laddie lady Lanty Leary laughed look Lord loud Magsman Milors and Gentlemans moch moon never night noble chairman o'er plaidie Plymouth Sound prize ROBERT BROWNING Robert of Lincoln rocks and shoals rose sarser Sevilla shadow ship Sir Richard Sir Richard Grenville snow society soft Solidor sound Spain Spanish spank Spink squire stood summer sure as fate sweet Tammy there's thing thou thought Three Hundred-the Heavy toast Toby Twas voice wave wife wild Willie wind
Pasajes populares
Página 25 - White are his shoulders and white his crest. Hear him call in his merry note: " Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link, Spink, spank, spink; Look what a nice new coat is mine, Sure there was never a bird so fine. Chee, chee, chee...
Página 45 - s the English at our heels ; would you have them take in tow All that's left us of the fleet, linked together stern and bow, For a prize to Plymouth Sound? Better run the ships aground!
Página 47 - Since I needs must say my say, since on board the duty's done, And from Malo Roads to Croisic Point, what is it but a run? — Since 'tis ask and have, I may — since the others go ashore — Come! A good whole holiday' Leave to go and see my wife, whom I call the Belle Aurore!
Página 47 - In memory of the man but for whom had gone to wrack All that France saved from the fight whence England bore the bell. Go to Paris; rank on rank Search the heroes flung pell-mell On the Louvre, face and flank! You shall look long enough ere you come to Herve Riel.
Página 46 - My friend, I must speak out at the end, Though I find the speaking hard. Praise is deeper than the lips : You have saved the King his ships, You must name your own reward. 'Faith our sun was near eclipse! Demand whate'er you will, France remains your debtor still. Ask to heart's content and have! or my name's not Damfreville.
Página 45 - See, safe through shoal and rock, How they follow in a flock, Not a ship that misbehaves, not a keel that grates the ground, Not a spar that comes to grief! The peril, see, is past, All are harbored to the last, And just as Herve Riel hollas "Anchor!
Página 96 - Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not: Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr!
Página 77 - Fore God I am no coward ; But I cannot meet them here, for my ships are out of gear, And the half my men are sick. I must fly, but follow quick. We are six ships of the line; can we fight with fiftythree?
Página 26 - Modest and shy as a nun is she; One weak chirp is her only note. Braggart and prince of braggarts is he, Pouring boasts from his little throat: Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link, Spink, spank, spink; Never was I afraid of man; Catch me, cowardly knaves, if you can! Chee, chee, chee.
Página 79 - And half of the rest of us maim'd for life In the crash of the cannonades and the desperate strife; And the sick men down in the hold were most of them stark and cold, And the pikes were all broken or bent, and the powder was all of it spent...