 Whitford, keep near the walls ! Huggins, regard your own behoof. For, lo ! the blazing rocking roof Down, down in thunder falls ! An awful pause succeeds the stroke, And o'er the ruins volumed smoke, Rolling around its pitchy shroud, Concealed them from...  The Port folio, by Oliver Oldschool - Page 415Full view - About this book
 | James Parton - 1856 - 689 pages
...terrified are slow To bid the pumping torrent flow, For fear the roof would fall. Back, Robins, back; Crump, stand aloof! Whitford, keep near the walls...blazing rocking roof Down, down, in thunder falls l An awful pause succeeds the stroke, And o'er the ruins volumed smoke, Rolling around its pitchy shroud,... | |
 | 1856
...the firemen of the Eagle Insurance Company and the raging element consuming the Drury-lane Theatre. "An awful pause succeeds the stroke, And o'er the...ruins volumed smoke, Rolling around its pitchy shroud, Concealed them from the astonished crowd. At length, the mist a while was cleared, When, lo ! amid... | |
 | James Parton - 1857 - 689 pages
...terrified are slow To bid the pumping torrent flow, For fear the roof would fall. Back, Eobins, back; Crump, stand aloof! Whitford, keep near the walls...succeeds the stroke, And o'er the ruins volumed smoke, Eolling around its pitchy shroud, Concealed them from th astonished crowd. At length the mist awhile... | |
 | Amusing poetry - 1857
...terrified are slow To bid the pumping torrent flow, For fear the roof should fall. Back, Eobins, back ! Crump, stand aloof! Whitford, keep near the walls...succeeds the stroke, And o'er the ruins volumed smoke, Boiling around its pitchy shroud, Conceal'd them from the astonish'd crowd. At length the mist awhile... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1857 - 785 pages
...the pumping torrent flow, For fear the roof should fall. Back, Hobins, back ! Crump, stand aloof t Whitford, keep near the walls ! Huggins, regard your own behoof, For, lo ! the blnziug rocking roof Down, down in thunder falls ! An awful pause succeeds the stroke, And o'er the... | |
 | 1859 - 320 pages
...terrified are slow To bid the pumping torrent flow, For fear the roof would fall. Back, Robins, back; Crump, stand aloof! Whitford, keep near the walls!...your own behoof, For lo! the blazing rocking roof An awful pause succeeds the stroke, And o'er the ruins volumed smoke, Rolling around its pitchy shroud,... | |
 | 1860
...terrified are slow To bid the pumping torrent flow, For fear the roof should fall. Back, Robins, back ! Crump, stand aloof! Whitford, keep near the walls...Rolling around its pitchy shroud, Conceal'd them from the astonish'd crowd. At length the mist awhile was clear'd, When, lo ! amid the wreck uprear'd, Gradual... | |
 | James Smith - 1860 - 159 pages
...terrified, are slow To bid the pumping torrent flow, For fear the roof should fall. Back, Eobins, back ! Crump, stand aloof! Whitford, keep near the walls...succeeds the stroke, And o'er the ruins volumed smoke, Eolling around its pitchy shroud, Conceal'd them from th' astonish'd crowd. At length the mist awhile... | |
 | 1861 - 277 pages
...terrified, ure slow To bid the pumping torrent flow, For fear the roof should fall. Buek, Robins, baek ! Crump, stand aloof ! Whitford,. keep near the walls...Huggins, regard your own behoof, For lo ! the blazing, roeking roof Down, down in thunder falls ! An awful pause sueeeeds the stroke. And o'er the ruin's... | |
 | English poets - 1862
...1839, and Horace at Tunbridge Wells, 12th July 1849. FROM "REJECTED ADDRESSES." (AFTER SIR w. SCOTT.) AN awful pause succeeds the stroke, And o'er the ruins volumed smoke, Rolling around its pitchy shroud, Concealed them from the astonished crowd. At length the mist awhile was cleared, When lo ! amid the... | |
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