 | Henry Howe - 1891 - 692 trang
...truth so touchingly told in the verse of Longfellow in the last utterance of Sir Humphrey Gilbert : " He sat upon the deck, The book was in his hand ; Do not fear : ' Heaven is near,' He said, ' by water as by land. ' " Hitching the horse at the gate we entered the cemetery,... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1891 - 684 trang
...truth so touchingly told in the verse of Longfellow in the last utterance of Sir Humphrey Gilbert : " He sat upon the deck, The book was in his hand ; Do not fear : ' Heaven is near,' He said, ' by water as by land.' " Hitching the horse at the gate we entered the cemetery, whereupon... | |
 | William George Thorpe - 1892 - 400 trang
...was to sink beneath Atlantic waves with the touching words that Longfellow has rhymed so well : ' " Do not fear. Heaven is as near," He said, " by water as by land." ' And with him lived his half-brother, a bright boy, afterwards to be known as Sir Walter Raleigh,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1893 - 360 trang
...land-wind failed, And ice-cold grew the night ; And never more, on sea or shore, Should Sir Humphrey see the light. He sat upon the deck, The Book was in his...Heaven is as near," He said, " by water as by land ! " In the first watch of the night, Without a signal's sound, Out of the sea, mysteriously, The fleet... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1894 - 200 trang
...land-wind failed, And ice-cold grew the night ; And nevermore, on sea or shore, Should Sir Humphrey see the light. He sat upon the deck, The Book was in his...Heaven is as near," He said, " by water as by land ! " In the first watch of the night, Without a signal's sound, 1 Sir Humphrey Gilbert was half-brother... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1894 - 442 trang
...Arctic Sea, called out to his men, " Courage, my lads, we are as near to heaven by sea as by land"— " He sat upon the deck, The Book was in his hand : '...heaven is as near, He said, ' by water as by land.' n ; Calcutta she was welcomed by Keshub Chunder Sen, the wellknowD leader of the Brahmo Somaj, or new... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1894 - 410 trang
...; And nevermore, on sea or shore, Should Sir Humphrey see the light. He sat upon the deck, The Hook was in his hand : " Do not fear ! Heaven is as near," He said, ' ' by water as by land ! ' ' In the first watch of the night, Without a signal's sound, Out of the sea, mysteriously The fleet... | |
 | Richard Nicholls Worth - 1895 - 368 trang
...formality to any practical account. Few are unfamiliar with the brave way in which he met his death : ' He sat upon the deck, The book was in his hand ; " Do not fear, Heaven is as near By water as by land." ' It was in all probability this same earnest-minded devout man who boldly proposed... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 354 trang
...land-wind failed, And ice-cold grew the night ; And nevermore, on sea or shore, Should Sir Humphrey see the light. He sat upon the deck, The Book was in his hand ; 44 Do not fear ! Heaven is as near," He said, " by water as by land ! " In the first watch of the... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 460 trang
...failed. Alas! the land wind failed, And ice-cold grew the night; And nevermore, on sea or shore, , He sat upon the deck, The Book was in his hand; "Do...heaven is as near," He said, "by water as by land!" In the first watch of the night, Without a signal's sound, Out of the sea mysteriously The fleet of... | |
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He sat upon the deck, The Book was in his hand ; " Do not fear ! Heaven is as near... 
