| Robert Southey - 1813 - 276 páginas
...of both being clearly distinguishable. About ten o'clock the ship blew up. This tremendous explosion was followed by a silence not less awful : the firing...to which they had been exploded. It is upon record, 'that a battle between two armies was once broken off by an earthquake : — such an event would be... | |
| Robert Southey - 1813 - 278 páginas
...of both being clearly distinguishable. About ten o'clock the ship blew up. This tremendous explosion was followed by a silence not less awful : the firing...sides; and the first sound which broke the silence, waa the dash of her shattered masts and yards, falling into the water from the vast height to which... | |
| Robert Southey - 1813 - 274 páginas
...of both being clearly distinguishable. About ten o'clock the ship blew up. This tremendous explosion was followed by a silence not less awful: the firing immediately ceased on both sides; and the first sound'which broke the silence, was the dash of her shattered masts and yards, falling into the water... | |
| Edward Baines - 1818 - 582 páginas
...ceased on both sides, and the first sound which broke the portentous stillness, was the dash of the shattered masts and yards falling into the water from the vast height to which they had been cast by the explosion. It is upon record, that a battle between two armies was once broken off by an... | |
| Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 páginas
...: the firing immediately 0«4&d ofl.-both sides ; and the first sound which broke the silence, w4ft the dash of her shattered masts and yards falling into the water frailly fih£; vast height to which they had been exploded. It is upon jaecoril^ ,that a battle between... | |
| Englishman - 1824 - 420 páginas
...stood the danger to the last, and continued to fire from the lower deck. This tremendous explosion was followed by a silence not less awful: the firing...to which they had been exploded. It is upon record, that a battle between two armies was once broken off" by an earthquake: — such an event would be... | |
| J. R. Miller - 1825 - 490 páginas
...instantly censed on both sides, &nd the first sound which broke the portentous stillness was the dash of shattered masts and yards falling into the water from the vast height to which they had been cast by tho explosion. Only about seventy of the crew could be saved by the English boat*. Tho Orient... | |
| Robert Southey - 1830 - 354 páginas
...stood the danger till the last, and continued to fire from the lower deck. This tremendous explosion was followed by a silence not less awful : the firing...to which they had been exploded. It is upon record, that a battle between two armies was once broken off by an earthquake : — such an event would be... | |
| sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1835 - 698 páginas
...a silence still more awful, interrupted only, after the lapse of some minutes, by the splash of the shattered masts and yards falling into the water from the vast height to which they had been thrown. The British ships in the vicinity, with admirable coolness, had made preparations to avoid... | |
| Archibald Alison - 1835 - 772 páginas
...a silence still more awful, interrupted only, after the lapse of some minutes, by the splash of the shattered masts and yards falling into the water from the vast height to which they had been thrown. The British ships in the vicinity, with admirable coolness, had made preparations to avoid... | |
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