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" In deaf ning concert shall their pond'rous hammers clang, And into symmetry the mass incongruous beat, To save from adverse winds and waves the gallant British fleet. "
The Songs of Charles Dibdin: Chronologically Arranged, with Notes ... - Page 173
by Charles Dibdin, George Hogarth - 1848 - 686 pages
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The goldfinch, being a collection of the most esteemed modern songs in the ...

Goldfinch - 1805 - 276 pages
...While,asoldVulean'sCyelop9 did the anvil bana, In deat''nin'; concert shall tlieir pund'rouii hummers clang; And into symmetry the mass incongruous beat, To save from adverse winds and waves the g:uInnt British fleet. Xow, as more vivid and intense each splinter flics, The temper oi' the Hre the...
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The Norwich Minstrel, Containing Several Hundred of the Most Admired and ...

1831 - 272 pages
...fire divorce; While, as old Vulcan's Cyclops did the anvil ban"-, In deafening concert shall their hammers clang *" And into symmetry the mass incongruous beat To save from adverse winds and waves the srallant British fleet. Now, as more vivid and intense each splinter flies The temper of the fire the...
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The Universal Songster, Or, Museum of Mirth: Forming the Most Complete ...

1834 - 480 pages
...bang, To make in concert rude their ponderous hammers clang, So the misshapen lump to symmetry they beat, To save from adverse winds and waves the gallant British fleet. The preparations thicken ; with forks the fire they goad. And now twelve anchorsmiths the heaving bellows...
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Songs, Naval and National: Of the Late Charles Dibdin; with a Memoir and Addenda

Charles Dibdin - 1841 - 406 pages
...thunderbolts, their pond'rous hammers clang; And, till its fire's extinct, the monstrous mass they beat. To save from adverse winds and waves the gallant British fleet. THE GIRL WHO'D CHOOSE A SAILOR. THAT girl who fain would choose a. mate Should ne'er in fondness fail...
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Summer excursions in ... Kent, along the banks of the rivers Thames and Medway

1847 - 334 pages
...bang, To make, in concert rude, their ponderous hammers clang ; So the misshapen lump to symmetry they beat, To save from adverse winds and waves the gallant British fleet. The preparations thicken ! — with forks the fire they goad ; And now twelve anchorsmiths the heaving...
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The British minstrel; A choice collection of modern songs. 2 pt. [in 1 vol ...

British minstrel - 1848 - 480 pages
...[clang, To make in concert rude their pond'rous hammers The rude, mis-shapen lump to symmetry they beat, To save from adverse winds and waves the gallant British fleet. The preparations thicken: with forks the fire they goad — [load. And now twelve anchorsmithsthe heaving...
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Songs of the Late Charles Dibdin: With a Memoir

Charles Dibdin - 1850 - 424 pages
...thunderbolts, their pond'rous hammers clang; And, till its fire's extinct, the monstrous mass they beat To save from adverse winds and waves the gallant British fleet. ADDENDA. SONGS SELECTED FROM THE WORKS T. DIBDIN, ATJTHOB or THE ENGLISH FLEET — MOUTH OP THE NILE...
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The official illustrated guide to the South-eastern railway and its branches

George Measom - 1858 - 358 pages
...— " While, as old Vulcan's Cyclops did the anvil bang, In deafening concert shall their ponderous hammers clang, And into symmetry the mass incongruous...adverse winds and waves the gallant British fleet." Each department of the dockyard is under the superintendence of a separate officer, the whole being...
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Songs ...: With a Memoir

Charles Dibdin - 1864 - 412 pages
...rocks, the anchor from the fire divorce; While as old Vulcan's Cyclops did the anvil bang, In deafening concert shall their pond'rous hammers clang, And into...dingy hue assumes a brilliant red, The heated anchor leeus tnat nre on which it fed: The huge sledge-hammers round in order they arrange, And waking anchorsmiths...
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A handbook for travellers in Kent and Sussex [by R.J. King].

Richard John King - 1868 - 536 pages
...one of the finest buildings of the kind existing. The Anchor Forge, where " the monstrous mass they beat To save from adverse winds and waves the gallant British fleet," and the Giant Shears, for masting and dismasting vessels. In the Steam Engine Factory the largest engines...
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