 | Warren P. Edgarton - 1860 - 530 páginas
...and humble school, where the American citizen is trained. Ex. XXXII— CASABIANCA. MRS. UliMAHSTHE 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... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1861 - 200 páginas
...vessel, when the flames had reached the powder. This is an instance of obedient* 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 he... | |
 | Simon Kerl - 1861 - 372 páginas
...BETWIXT. But is a preposition when equivalent to except, and construed with the objective case; as, "The boy stood on the burning deck whence all but him had fled."—Humans. It is sometimes, however, construed with the nominative case, and is then a conjunction.... | |
 | Z. M. Chandler - 1862 - 240 páginas
...are frequently used as prepositions ; as, as, but, near, ere, till, until, since, round, etc. ; as, " The boy stood on the burning deck, "Whence all but him had fled." c. Two prepositions are frequently employed to perform tho office of a single preposition; as, "The... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1862 - 350 páginas
...couple of hours, they returned to their occupation. Blackwood's Magazine. LXXXVIII. — CASABIANCA.* 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... | |
 | Selections - 1863 - 192 páginas
...shore Till the waves of the bay, where the Mayflower lay , Shall foam and freeze no more . Mrs. Hcmans. 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... | |
 | 1864 - 568 páginas
...low, All bloodless lay th' untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser rolling rapidly. The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck The first of the foregoing lyrics was suitable for winter afternoons,... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard, Loomis Joseph Campbell - 1864 - 216 páginas
...after the ship had caught fire, and perished with the vessel when the flames reached the powder.] 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... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1864 - 276 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 - 1865 - 116 páginas
...Night shades the groves, and all in silence lie, All save the mournful Philomel and I. — Young, % The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled. — Hemans. 25. You have not thought it leorth your Itilx* to eiitei a professed dissent against philosophy.... | |
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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. 
