Category: History - British
A worthy Quaker thus wrote:--"I expect to pass through this world but once; if, therefore, there can be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."
A worthy Quaker thus wrote:--"I expect to pass through this world but once; if, therefore, there can be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow human b...
11. CHAPTER II.As we have considered the growth of legislation upon the question of wrecking and wreckage, and contrasted the more civilized, but not perfect code, now existing, with the barba...
12. CHAPTER III."The most eloquent speaker, the most ingenious writer, and the most accomplished statesman cannot effect so much as the mere presence of the man who tempers his wisdom and his v...
13. CHAPTER IV."What is noble? 'tis the finer Portion of our mind and heart, Linked to something still diviner Than mere language can impart; Ever prompting--ever seeing Some improvement yet t...
14. CHAPTER V."In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea, Our hearts, our hopes are all with thee; Our hearts, our hopes,...
15. CHAPTER VI."Ye mariners of England, That guard our native seas; Whose flag has braved a thousand years The battle and the breeze! Your glorious standard launch again To match another foe;...
16. CHAPTER VII.Now set the teeth, and stretch the nostril wide; Hold hard the breath, and bend up every spirit To his full height! On, on, you noble English, Whose blood is set from fathers of...
17. CHAPTER VIII."God help the poor fellows at sea!" Far away inland, when tempests blow Wild through the dark'ning night, We list to the roar of the winds as they go On their hurricane steeds t...
18. CHAPTER IX."Alone upon the leaping billows, lo! What fearful image works its way? A ship! Shapeless and wild ... Her sails dishevell'd, and her massy form Disfigured, yet tremendously subl...
19. CHAPTER X."And the coming wind did roar more loud, And the sails did sigh like sedge; And the rain poured down from one black cloud, The moon was at its edge. The thick black cloud was cl...
20. CHAPTER XI."Borne upon the ocean's foam, Far from native land and home, Midnight's curtain, dense with wrath, Brooding o'er our venturous path. While the mountain wave is rolling, And the...
21. CHAPTER XII."Eternal Father, strong to save, Whose arm hath bound the restless wave, Who bid'st the mighty ocean deep Its own appointed limits keep; O hear us when we cry to Thee For those...
22. CHAPTER XIII."Yet more! the billows and the depths have more! High hearts and brave are gathered to thy breast! They hear not now the booming waters roar, The battle-thunders will not break...
23. CHAPTER XIV.The Sands are alive with the rolling breakers, the fierce dash and seethe of the waves upon them add to the roar of the tempest; never was a battle-field more full of raging foe...
24. CHAPTER XV."Then courage, all brave mariners, And never be dismay'd, While we have bold adventurers, We ne'er shall want a trade; Our merchants will employ us To fetch them wealth, we know...
25. CHAPTER XVI.At daylight, in the morning after the destruction of the _Albion_ lugger, the weather grows worse and worse; the grey misty gloom that hangs over the sea is scarcely broken by t...
26. CHAPTER XVII.We left, in our last chapter, the Kingsdown life-boat making for Ramsgate harbour, and the Walmer life-boat, after a couple of upsets, making for Deal beach. The Kingsdown boat...
27. CHAPTER XVIII."All where the eye delights, yet dreads to roam, The breaking billows cast the flying foam Upon the billows rising; all the deep Is restless change; the waves so swelled and ste...
28. CHAPTER XIX.No sooner has the life-boat started in the morning, in answer to the signal from the Goodwin light-vessel, than the master of the _Princess Alice_ gathers a crew of twelve men,...
29. CHAPTER XX."The spirit of the storm pursued Their long and toilsome way; At length, in ocean solitude, He sprang upon his prey. 'Havoc!' the shipwreck-demon cried, Loos'd all his tempests...
30. CHAPTER XXI.As they tow the wreck near to the harbour they shorten the steamers hawser to give the brig less scope for sheering; and as there is not room for both the lugger and the life-bo...
31. CHAPTER XXII."What dangers press'd, when seas ran mountain high, When tempests raved, and horrors veiled the sky; When prudence fail'd, when courage grew dismayed, When the strong fainted, a...
32. CHAPTER XXIII."Much would it please you sometimes to explore The peaceful dwellings of our borough poor; To view a sailor just returned from sea, His wife beside, a child on either knee, And...
33. CHAPTER XXIV."There are to whom that ship was dear For love and kindred's sake, When these the voice of rumour hear, Their inmost heart shall quake, Shall doubt, and fear, and wish, and grie...
34. CHAPTER XXV."O, the most piteous cry of the poor souls! Sometimes to see 'em, and not to see 'em; now The ship boring the moon with her mainmast, And anon swallowed with yest and froth; How...
35. CHAPTER XXVI."'Tis done--despite the winds--the roll Of that storm-maddened fearful sea; Bravery hath snatched each shivering soul, O greedy death! from thee. Then the rough seamen's hands t...
36. CHAPTER XXVII.It may be that some of my readers who have followed the adventures of our Storm Warriors through their varied struggles and heroic deeds, and have felt sympathy more or less dee...
37. CHAPTER XXVIII."The quality of mercy is not strain'd; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice bless'd; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes: 'T...