 | 1846 - 436 pàgines
...They were moving slow, in weeds of woe ; No maiden was by their side ! " CASABIANCA. — Mrs. Hemans. THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but...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... | |
 | Noble Butler - 1846 - 272 pàgines
...adverb, and of as a preposition. Bat in the sense of except is sometimes used as a preposition ; as, " The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had tied." — Hemans. Some would say but he, and if but were what it was originally — the imperative... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 216 pàgines
...vessel, when the flames had reached the powder. THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but he 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... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 206 pàgines
...vessel, when the flames had reached the powder. THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but he 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... | |
 | William Harvey Wells - 1847 - 228 pàgines
...has been shut out from every other prospect for days and weeks together." — Graham's Magazine. " The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled." — Hemans. REM. 6. — " O'clock " is an elliptical expression, contracted from « Of the clock."j... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1844 - 184 pàgines
...been abandoned ; and perished in the explosion of the vessel, when the flames had reached the powder.] THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but...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... | |
 | Gorham Dummer Abbott - 1848 - 168 pàgines
...written in poetry; and, as the children who read this book may like to see it, I will present it to them. The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but...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... | |
 | George Washington Bethune - 1848 - 526 pàgines
...aside, Or lift them unto Heaven. C AS ABI ANC A.* THE boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he 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... | |
 | Allen Hayden Weld - 1848 - 240 pàgines
...perjured Gods, but Lycon ? For who but he who arched the skies, • Could raise the daisy's -purple bud ? The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled. — Hemans. HL FALSE SYNTAX, OR EXAMPLES TO BE CORRECTED ACCORDING TO PREVIOUS RULES OF SYNTAX. I admire... | |
 | Allen Hayden Weld - 1848 - 120 pàgines
...Night shades the groves, and all in silence lie, All sane the mournful Philomel and /. — Young. 23. The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled. — Hemans. 21 The bells sounded soft and pensive. — Chandler. 25. You have not thought it worth... | |
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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. 
