 | David Bates Tower - 1845 - 176 páginas
...vesse., when the flames had reached the powder. This is an instance ?t obedience even unto death.] 1. 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. 2. Yet beautiful and bright... | |
 | William Russell - 1845 - 410 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... | |
 | 1846 - 436 páginas
...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 him had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he... | |
 | Noble Butler - 1846 - 272 páginas
...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... | |
 | William Harvey Wells - 1847 - 228 páginas
...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... | |
 | Gorham Dummer Abbott - 1848 - 168 páginas
...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 him had fled; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood,... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1844 - 184 páginas
...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 him had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he... | |
 | Allen Hayden Weld - 1848 - 240 páginas
...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 - 234 páginas
...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. ra. FALSE SYNTAX, OR EXAMPLES TO BE CORRECTED ACCORDING TO PREVIOUS RULES OF SYJSTAX. I... | |
 | Allen Hayden Weld - 1848 - 120 páginas
...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. 
