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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 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.... "
Language, People, Numbers: Corpus Linguistics and Society - Page 31
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First (Second) poetry book, selected and arranged by C. Geikie, Volume 1

John Cunningham Geikie - 1878 - 242 pages
...name. Little Lamb, God bless thee ; Littlo Lamb, God bless thee. -46 — CASABIANCA* A True Story, THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead.Yet beautiful and bright he stood,...
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The London readers. First (-Sixth) reader

London readers - 1878 - 248 pages
...Wolfe. Bam'-parts, walls round fortified | Shroud, a sheet used to cover a corpse, places. CASABIANCA. THE boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood,...
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The Household Book of Poetry

Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pages
...seaman's duty well. I wish our brother landsmen knew One half we jolly tars go through. OASABIAXCA. ТПЕ boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright ho stood,...
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John Heywood's complete guide to the standard examinations, consisting of 24 ...

Alfonzo Gardiner - 1878 - 146 pages
...An account of your last school treat on the moors. Grammar. — Parse and analyse (on slate) : — " The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled." Additional questions on grammatical forms, with parsing and analysis, from reading books. On card ....
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Clivus, elementary exercises in Latin elegiac verse, Part 2

Arthur Campbell Ainger - 1879 - 144 pages
...with dust, mourn them with tears, O Scottish land. I. lux. 2. inclementia. 3. obnoxius. Casablanca. The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead. 5 The flames roll'd on — he would...
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The Children's Garland from the Best Poets: Selected and Arranged by ...

Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore - Children's poetry, English - 1879 - 376 pages
...To make one leaf the next to kiss That closely by it grew." M. Drayton XXV CASABIANCA A True Story The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. The flames roll'd on. He would not...
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From Gothic Windows to Peacocks: American Embossed Leather Bindings, 1825-1855

Edwin Wolf - Bookbinding - 1990 - 251 pages
...Dorothea Hemans, still recalled by "The breaking waves dashed high / On a stern and rock-bound coast" and "The boy stood on the burning deck, / Whence all but he had fled." More difficult to understand was the frequent offering as a gift of The Course of T1me, a Miltonic...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...superiority. (1. 29-32) LiTM; NBLV; NePoEA; PoRA; TwCP FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS (1783-1835) Casablanca 1 t hangs on the bough. (V, i) AWP; BoTP; CH; CTC; E1L; FaBV; GN; He flame that lit the battle's wreck. Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood,...
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Best Remembered Poems

Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 pages
...England," illustrated by Miss LB Humphrey, was published in Boston by Lee and Shepard in 1883. Casabianca The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but he had fled; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead; Yet beautiful and bright he stood...
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Romanticism & Gender

Anne Kostelanetz Mellor - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 292 pages
...realm, they prove futile and self-destructive, as Hemans suggested in her most famous poem, Casablanca: The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood,...
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