 | 1806 - 540 pàgines
...by gallant Nelson led, Free lo the winds their red-cross banners spread : In vain the close-moor' d fleet their anchors keep, A massy bulwark floating...vain, tremendous, from the circling shore, With brazen threat the thundering batteries roar ; Down sinks the baseless vaunt of Atheist pride, The victor's... | |
 | 1806 - 560 pàgines
...close-moor'd fleet their anchors keep, In vain, tremendous, from the circling shore, With brazen threat the thundering batteries roar^ Down sinks the baseless vaunt of Atheist pride, The victor's spoil, o'erwhelm'd beneath the tide; And wild Arabia's desultory bands, The fight surveying from the neighbouring... | |
 | Thomas R. Joliffe - 1822 - 534 pàgines
...— by gallant NELSON led, Free to the winds their red-cross banners spread. In vain the close-moor'd fleet their anchors keep, A massy bulwark floating...baseless vaunt of atheist pride, The victor's spoil, or whelm'd beneath the tide. And wild Arabia's desultory bands, The fight surveying from the neighbouring... | |
 | Reading England School - 1826 - 228 pàgines
...red-cross banners spread. f ,„ . In vain the close-moored fleet their anchors keep, . • :i . ,t>.<A " A massy bulwark floating on the deep ; In vain tremendous,...baseless vaunt of Atheist pride, The Victor's spoil, o'erwhelmed beneath the tide ; And wild ARABIA'S desultory bands, The fight surveying from the neighbouring... | |
 | Thomas Robert Jolliffe - 1854 - 294 pàgines
...In vain the close-moorM fleet their anchors keep, " A massy bulwark floating on the deep; " lu vaiu tremendous, from the circling shore, " With brazen throat the thundering batteries roar; notice, arrived at Alexandria soon after ten o'clock. The outer gate leads to an enclosure that presents... | |
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An atheist warrior with gigantic pride, The armies of the LIVING GOD defied; BRITANNIA'S sons the threat with horror hear, And fearing heaven, disclaim all other fear ; By valour fired — by gallant NELSON led, Free to the winds their red-cross banners... 