 | Robert Chambers, Thomas Thomson - 1855 - 728 pages
...well-known ballad of Southey informs us — " When the rock was bid by the surge's swell, The marinera heard the warning bell : And then they knew the perilous rock. And brest the abbot of Aberbrothock," The popular legend adds, that a pestilent pirate, the enemy of God... | |
 | Purbeck society - 1856 - 466 pages
...of Aberbrothock, or Arbroth, and thus alluded to by Southey: " When the rock was hid by the surges swell, The mariners heard the warning bell; And then they knew the perilous rock, And blessed the abbot of Aberbrothock." These lines suggest what in reality might have been the use of... | |
 | 1856 - 806 pages
...it floated and swung, And louder and louder its warning rung. W hen the rock was hid by the tempest swell, The mariners heard the warning bell; And then they knew the perilous rock, And blessed the good priest of Aberbrothock. " The sun in heaven shone so gay, All things were joyful on... | |
 | Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 pages
...Inchcape Rock ; On a buoy in the storm it floated and swung, A.nd over the waves its warning rung. When the rock was hid by the surge's swell, The mariners...warning bell ; And then they knew the perilous rock, .\nd blessed the Abbot of Aberbrothok. The sun in heaven was shining gay, All things were joyful on... | |
 | Amusing poetry - 1857 - 266 pages
...hid by the surge's swell, The mariners heard the waruing bell ; And then they knew the perilous Eock, And blest the Abbot of Aberbrothok. The sun in heaven...was shining gay, All things were joyful on that day ; N 2 The sea-birds scream'd as they wheel' d around, And there was joyaunce in their sound. The buoy... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1857 - 242 pages
...it floated and swung, And louder and louder its warning rung. When the rock was hid by the tempest's swell, The mariners heard the warning bell ; And then they knew the perilous rock, And blessed the priests of Aberbrothock. * Abbot, the chief, or governor, of a household of Roman Catholic... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 pages
...Inchcape Rock; On the waves of the storm it floated and swung, And louder and louder its warning rung. When the rock was hid by the surge's swell, The mariners...warning bell : And then they knew the perilous rock, And blessed me priest of Aberbrothock. The sun in heaven was shining gay, All things were joyful on that... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1858 - 240 pages
...it floated and swung, And louder and louder its warning rung. When the rock was hid by the tempest's swell, The mariners heard the warning bell; And then they knew the perilous rock, And blessed the priests of Aberbrothock. The float of the Inchcape bell was seen, A darker speck on the... | |
 | George Bradshaw - 1858 - 574 pages
...louder, and louder, it« warning rung. When the rock was hid by the tempest's swell The mariner.-* heard the warning bell, And then they knew the perilous rock, And blesaod the Abbot of Aberbrothock." There is a bell swung in a wic something li adrift by a pirate,... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1859 - 236 pages
...it floated and swung, And louder and louder its warning rung. When the rock was hid by the tempest's swell, The mariners heard the warning bell; And then they knew the perilous rock, And blessed the priests of Aberbrothock. The float of the Inchcape bell was seen, A darker speck on the... | |
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Had placed that Bell on the Inchcape Rock ; On a buoy in the storm it floated and swung, And over the waves its warning rung. When the Rock was hid by the surge's swell, The mariners heard the warning Bell ; And then they knew the perilous Rock, And blest... 
