| John Wilson, John Gibson Lockhart, James Hogg - 1854 - 508 pages
...squashing blow ; The leathern mail rebounds the hail ; the rattling cinders strow The ground around; at every bound the sweltering fountains flow; And...loud, the swinking crowd, at every stroke, pant " ho !" * Samuel Fergusson, author of this glorious lay, is yet alive, in Ireland, and ha! written much... | |
| John Wilson, John Gibson Lockhart - 1854 - 494 pages
...is struck at every squashing blow; The leathern mail rebounds the hail; the rattling cinders strow And thick and loud, the swinking crowd, at every stroke, pant " ho !" The ground around; at every bound the sweltering fountains flow; Leap out, leap out, my masters;... | |
| Edward Hayes - 1856 - 396 pages
...squashing blow, The leathern mail rebounds the hail, the rattling cinders strow The ground around : at every bound the sweltering fountains flow, And...For a heart of oak is hanging on every blow, I bode, And I see the good ship riding, all in a perilous road — The low reef roaring on her lee — the... | |
| David Charles Bell - 1856 - 466 pages
...squashing blow ; The leathern mail rebounds the hail, the rattling cinders strew The ground around: at every bound the sweltering fountains flow, And...For a heart of oak is hanging on every blow, I bode, And I see the good ship riding, all in a perilous road — The low reef roaring on her lee — the... | |
| Edward Hayes (collector of ballads) - 1856 - 442 pages
...squashing blow, The leathern mail rebounds the hail, the rattling cinders strow The ground around: at every bound the sweltering fountains flow, And...For a heart of oak is hanging on every blow, I bode, And I see the good ship riding, all in a perilous road — The low reef roaring on her lee — the... | |
| Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...squashing blow, The leathern mail rebounds the hail, the rattling cinders strow The ground around : at every bound the sweltering fountains flow, And...leap out, my masters ; leap out and lay on load"! T "Vn forge a goodly anchor — a bower thick and broad ; For a heart of oak ie hanging on every blow,... | |
| Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 pages
...squashing blow ; The leathern mail rebounds the hail ; the rattling cinders strow The ground around ; at every bound the sweltering fountains flow : And...For a heart of oak is hanging on every blow, I bode, And I see the good ship riding, all in a perilous road ; The low reef roaring on her lee, the roll... | |
| Edward Hayes - 1857 - 456 pages
...squashing blow, The leathern mail rebounds the hail, the'i-attk'ng cinders strow- :!' The ground around : at every bound the sweltering fountains -flow, And...loud the swinking crowd at every stroke pant " ho ! " MISCELLANEOUS BALLADS. For a 'heart of oak is hanging on every blow, I bode, And I see the good... | |
| Amusing poetry - 1857 - 266 pages
...squashing blow ; The leathern mail rebounds the hail ; the rattling cinders strow The ground around ; at every bound the sweltering fountains flow : And thick and loud the sinking crowd, at every stroke, pant " Ho ! " Leap out, leap out, my masters ; leap out and lay on... | |
| Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1858 - 642 pages
...squashing blow ; The leathern mail rcbounds the hail ; the rattling cinders strow The ground around; at every bound the sweltering fountains flow; And...For a heart of oak is hanging on every blow I bode ; And I see the good ship riding all in a perilous road. 872 The low reef rolling on her lee ; the... | |
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