 | 1886 - 300 pages
...No fairer dog-meat ever fed The butcher's dread machine. ANONYMOUS. THE FATE OF THE PEERS. THE Peer stood on the burning deck, Whence all but he had fled ; The storm that meant his Order's wreck Roared round his puzzled head. Yet masterful and mad he stood, As... | |
 | National Electric Light Association. Convention - 1888 - 630 pages
...to the resolution. I feel like quoting a passage that I think will reverberate in all your hearts: "The boy stood on the burning deck, whence all but he had fled." I do not see another member of that committee. (Laughter). When that committee was appointed, the President... | |
 | John Gibson - 1888 - 98 pages
..."Nepos answered him, Celsus replied, and neither of them were sparing of censures on each other." (i) " The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled." Represent in tabular form the stocks and languages of the Indo-European family that have contributed... | |
 | Henry Marmaduke Hewitt, George Beach - 1889 - 866 pages
...Nepos answered him, Celsus replied, and neither of them were sparing of censures on each other. (i) The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but he had fled. (_/') Such are a few of the many paradoxes one could cite from his writings, and which are now before... | |
 | Fleming Mant Sandwith - 1889 - 226 pages
...connected by torpedoes with the bay in which Nelson fought the Battle of the Nile, and his opponent's " boy stood on the burning deck, whence all but he had fled." Near Aboukir are the remains of Canopus, with granite columns lying about, and whence, in 1888, the... | |
 | David Salmon - 1890 - 322 pages
...o'er ; And yet they felt, they knew not why, More glad than they had done before.—Aiken. Casabianca. The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but...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... | |
 | David Salmon - 1890 - 318 pages
...o'er ; And yet they felt, they knew not why, More glad than they had done before.—Aiken, Casablanca. The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but...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... | |
 | David Salmon - 1890 - 280 pages
...Poverty soon overtakes him. I stood on the bridge at midnight, As the clocks were striking the hour. The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man. They that... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1890 - 424 pages
...co-instantaneously " obeyed the summons. 1. 29. his son is the subject of a popular poem by Mrs. Hemans beginning " The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled." According to the story he would not leave the ship without his father's orders, which, as his father... | |
 | 1891 - 120 pages
...An invitation was sent to me and George. Exercise 8. 1. So you must ride On horseback after we. 2. The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled. 3. The money is to be divided between the three brothers. 4. Each clergyman declares aloud that he... | |
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THE boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shoae round him o'er the dead. 
