The American Mariners: Or, The Atlantic Voyage. A Moral Poem ... Prefixed is A Vindication of the American Character ... To which are Added Naval Annals: Or, An Impartial Summary of the Actions Fought, During the Late War, at Sea, and on the Lakes, Between the Ships of Great Britain and Those of the United States of America ... |
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They paus ' d — I felt the warm gush of their tears , And waken ' d with my horror
and my fears . 440 VIII . Hoarse o ' er the main the gathering surges rise . With
heaving throws , and bellow to the skies , In darkness shrouded — not a waking ...
They paus ' d — I felt the warm gush of their tears , And waken ' d with my horror
and my fears . 440 VIII . Hoarse o ' er the main the gathering surges rise . With
heaving throws , and bellow to the skies , In darkness shrouded — not a waking ...
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Tears grace the eye of man - supplied To him alone - - the lower world
denied760 And he , who long unshaken and serene ... and naval combat seen ,
Now on the deck subdued by grief appears , His body bent , his soul dissolv ' d in
tears .
Tears grace the eye of man - supplied To him alone - - the lower world
denied760 And he , who long unshaken and serene ... and naval combat seen ,
Now on the deck subdued by grief appears , His body bent , his soul dissolv ' d in
tears .
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The breathless boatswain in amazement stood , Chill horror for a moment froze
his blood , His hardy bosom swellid with labouring sighs , And tears of iron
trickled from his eyes . * 2645 Then in his wild , ungovernable rage , With his rude
hand ...
The breathless boatswain in amazement stood , Chill horror for a moment froze
his blood , His hardy bosom swellid with labouring sighs , And tears of iron
trickled from his eyes . * 2645 Then in his wild , ungovernable rage , With his rude
hand ...
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In combat sought to wrest from thee thy reign , To snatch from thee thy trident ,
whose stern sway From pole to pole the raging waves obey . Her hand the
prostrate monarch kindly press ' d , While tears reliev ' d the anguish of his breast
: .
In combat sought to wrest from thee thy reign , To snatch from thee thy trident ,
whose stern sway From pole to pole the raging waves obey . Her hand the
prostrate monarch kindly press ' d , While tears reliev ' d the anguish of his breast
: .
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Meantime her female train in cadence mourn , Sigh as she sighs , and tears for
tears return , 4205 They raise her tranc ' d in grief - a glossy shade Of hair half
veils the melancholy maidStreams from her eyes - sobs from her bosom flowAnd
...
Meantime her female train in cadence mourn , Sigh as she sighs , and tears for
tears return , 4205 They raise her tranc ' d in grief - a glossy shade Of hair half
veils the melancholy maidStreams from her eyes - sobs from her bosom flowAnd
...
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Página 356 - Linnet, and to see our gun-boats seeking their safety in flight. This unlocked for event depriving me of the co-operation of the fleet, without which the further prosecution of the service was become impracticable, I did not hesitate to arrest the course of the troops advancing to the attack, because the most complete success would have been unavailing, and the possession of the enemy's works offered no advantage to compensate for the loss we must have sustained in acquiring possession of them.
Página 373 - January 9th, 1815. SIR, During the days of the 6th and 7th, the enemy had been actively employed in making preparations for an attack on my lines. With infinite labour they had succeeded on the night of the 7th, in getting their boats across from the lake to the river,, by widening and deepening the canal on which they had effected 456 their disembarkation.
Página 361 - ... gunshot. We were of course compelled to abandon her. In resuming our former course for the purpose of avoiding the squadron, we were compelled to present our stern to our antagonist — but such was his state, though we were thus exposed and within range of his guns for half an hour, that he did not avail himself of this favorable opportunity of raking us.
Página 318 - Many of my guns had been rendered useless by the enemy's shot, and many of them had their whole crews destroyed. We manned them again from those which were disabled, and one gun in particular was three times manned — fifteen men were slain at it in the course of the action ! but, strange as it may appear, the captain of it escaped with only & slight wound.
Página 320 - I have no doubt he would soon have drifted out of gun-shot, before he discovered we had anchored, had not the hawser unfortunately parted. My ship had taken fire several times during the action, but alarmingly so forward and aft at this moment ; the flames were bursting up each hatchway, and no hopes were entertained of saving her ; our distance from the shore did not exceed...
Página viii - Religion, always a principle of energy, in this new people is no way worn out or impaired ; and their mode of professing it is also one main cause of this free spirit. The people are Protestants, and of that kind which is the most adverse to all implicit submission of mind and opinion.
Página 239 - American seafaring citizens, and until a final declaration had been made by the Government of Great Britain that her hostile orders against our commerce would not be revoked but on conditions as impossible as unjust, whilst it was known that these orders would not otherwise cease but with a war which had lasted nearly twenty years, and which, according to appearances at that time...
Página 365 - Qualis spelunca subito commota columba, Cui domus et dulces latebroso in pumice nidi, Fertur in arva volans, plausumque exterrita pennis 215 Dat tecto ingentem, mox aere lapsa quieto Radit iter liquidum, celeres neque commovet alas : Sic Mnestheus, sic ipsa fuga secat ultima Pristis Aequora, sic illam fert impetus ipse volantem.
Página 371 - The enemy just then got clear of us, and his foremast and bowsprit being both gone, and perceiving us wearing to give him a fresh broadside, he again called out that he had surrendered. It was with difficulty I could restrain my crew from firing into him again, as he had certainly fired into us after having surrendered. From the firing of the first gun, to the last time the enemy cried out he had surrendered, was exactly twenty-two minutes by the watch.
Página 317 - I ran close into a small bay, about three quarters of a mile to leeward of the battery, on the east side of the...
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| Título | The American Mariners: Or, The Atlantic Voyage. A Moral Poem ... Prefixed is A Vindication of the American Character ... To which are Added Naval Annals: Or, An Impartial Summary of the Actions Fought, During the Late War, at Sea, and on the Lakes, Between the Ships of Great Britain and Those of ... |
| Autor | John Davis |
| Editor | Brodie and Dowding, 1822 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Oxford |
| Digitalizado | 5 Dic. 2006 |
| Largo | 384 páginas |
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