 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 childlike form.  Weld's English Grammar - Página 197por Allen Hayden Weld - 1848 - 228 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Celivergos Zachos - 1851 - 570 páginas
...been abandoned, and perished in lh« explosion of the vessel, when the flames had reached the powder." THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had rlud ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 204 páginas
...vessel, 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... | |
 | 1854 - 456 páginas
...parents, Without the crown of pride ; They were moving slow, in weeds of woe ; CASABLANCA. -Mrs. Hemans. 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... | |
 | William Russell - 1854 - 398 páginas
...iambic 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 ; . The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round him, o'er the dead ; " Yet beautiful and bright... | |
 | 1855 - 178 páginas
...another." — Whately. 67. But is sometimes employed as a preposition, in the sense of except : as, " The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled." — Hemans. 68. " O'clock" is an elliptical expression, contracted from "Of the clock:" — "At seven of the clock."-... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 páginas
...Without the crown of pride ; They were moving slow, in weeds of woe ; CASABIANCA. — Mrs. Hemans. 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... | |
 | Robert Clarke (schoolmaster.) - 1855 - 190 páginas
...son of the Admiral of the " Orient," who perished whem that ship blew up at the battle of the Nile. 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... | |
 | Charlotte Phillips - 1855 - 188 páginas
...little while, and there for ever, even for ages of eternal years. BARBAULD'S PROSE HYMNS. CASSABIANCA. 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... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1855 - 620 páginas
...cities rose! Thou speak'st of one who doth not change— So may our hearts repose. CASABIANCA.» THK 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,... | |
 | Live - 1855 - 168 páginas
...another."— Whately. 67. But is sometimes employed as a preposition, in the sense of except: as, " The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled."—Hemans. 68. " O'clock" is an elliptical expressioii, contracted from "Of tie clock:"—-"At... | |
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