| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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