...elegance in the versification, but the descriptions are natural, and some of them very affecting : " When in the dead of night by Lonna's steep, The seaman's cry was heard along the deep." Falconer wrote some smaller pieces, and the sailor's favorite song, " Cease rude Boreas," has been...

...traveller will be struck with the beauty of the prospect over " isles that crown the .!'•-.••! ightl Thy gun — thy heaven — of lost delight!...home ! The hand is gone that cropt its flowers ; Unh beard along the deep.' * Falconer was not insensible to the charms of these historical and classic...

...bloodshed! Lord E.'s " prig" — see Jonathan Wild for the definition of " priggism" — quarrelled interest, as the actual spot of Falconer's Shipwreck....forgotten, in the recollection of Falconer and Campbell : The a the dead of night by Lonna's steep, iinan's cry was heard along the dec-p." This temple of...

...and the traveller will be struck with the beauty of the prospect over ' isles that crown the ^^ean deep ;' but for an Englishman, Colonna has yet an additional interest, as the actual spot of Faleoner's shipwreck. Pallas and Plato are forgotten in the recollection of Faleoner and Campbell —...

...interest, as the actnal spot of Falconer's shipwreek. Pallas and Plato are forgotten, in the reeolleetion of Falconer and Campbell :— " Here in the dead of...steep, The seaman's cry was heard along the deep.' 1 This temple of Minerva may be seen at sea from a great distance. in two jonrneys which I made, and...

...Shipwreck. Pallas and Plato are forgotten, in the recol lection of Fidcone/ on J Campbell : " litre In the dead of night by Lonna's steep, The seaman's cry was heard along the deep." This temple of Мшопгл may bo seen at sex from a great distance. ID 1» a pumeys which 1 made, and one voyage...

...their guns, their foundering bark to save, And toiled, and shrieked, and perished on the wave ! Yes, at the dead of night, by Lonna's steep, The seaman's cry was heard along the deep ; There on his funeral waters, dark and wild, The dying father blessed his darling child ; 0, Mercy,...

...guns, their foundering bark Id save, And toil'd—and shriek'd—and perish'd on the wave! Yes, at the dead of night, by Lonna's steep, The seaman's cry was heard along the deep ; There, on his funeral waters, dark and wild, The dying father blest his darling child ! Oh! Mercy,...

...guns, their foundering bark to save, And toiled — and shrieked — and perished on the WBTB ! Yes, at the dead of night, by Lonna's steep, The seaman's cry was heard along the deep; There on his funeral waters, dark and wild, The dying father blessed his darling child ! Oh ! Mercy,...

...; and the traveler will be struck with the beauty of the prospect over 'isles that crown the ^Egean deep ;' but for an Englishman,, Colonna has yet an...steep, The seaman's cry was heard along the deep. ' " A peculiarity of this poem is, that, while its poetic merits are great, it is a safe guide to practical...