 There's a breathless hush in the Close to-night • Ten to make and the match to win — A bumping pitch and a blinding light, An hour to play and the last man in. And it's not for the sake of a ribboned coat Or the selfish hope of a season's fame, But...  A Course in Citizenship - 136. oldalszerző: Ella Lyman Cabot, Fannie Fern Andrews, Fanny E. Coe, Mabel Hill, Mary McSkimmon - 1914 - 386 oldalTeljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | David Jablonsky - 1994 - 344 oldal
...support that Empire was summed up in Sir Henry Newbolt's classic public school poem. "Vitai Lampada." There's a breathless hush in the close tonight Ten...shoulder smote "Play up! play up! and play the game!' Years later. the former cricket player. under native attack. exhorts his colonial troops to greater... | |
 | Claude Halcombe - 1996 - 180 oldal
...worthwhile payout to crown the trip. This is the time when you can get reckless, sometimes desperate. There's a breathless hush in the close tonight—...blinding light, An hour to play and the last man in... If you can sense the tension in Sir Henrys words even though you know little about cricket, you will... | |
 | J Bond - 1996 - 260 oldal
...following cricketing mishap, which inspired Noel Petty to rewrite Henry Newbolt:THERE'S A BREATHLESS HUSH. There's a breathless hush in the Close tonight — Ten to make and the match to win As our number eleven squared up for the fight. The first ball reared and grazed his chin, And the second... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 oldal
...fading down the river, But in England's song for ever She's the Fighting Temeraire. 8151 'Vitai Lampada' od does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too...conviction that we are loved. 4856 Those who live are 8152 'Vitai Lampada' The river of death has brimmed its banks And England's far and honour a name,... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Knowles - 1999 - 1160 oldal
...to make and the match to win — 54l 542 A bumping pitch sind ¡i blinding light, An hour to pliiy and the last man in. And it's not for the sake of...shoulder smote — 'Play up! play up! and play the game!' 'Vital Lampada' 1 1X47) Anthony Newley 1931and Leslie Bricusse 19311 Stop the world, [ want to get... | |
 | Modris Eksteins - 2000 - 420 oldal
...poem of the late Victorian and Edwardian era was Sir Henry Newbolt's "Vital Lampada," written in 1898: There's a breathless hush in the Close tonight —...smote — "Play up! play up! and play the game!" The next stanza transported the sporting mentality, along with the playing fields of Eton, to the outposts... | |
 | Ralph Keefer - 2001 - 292 oldal
...Canadian. I. Title. D8O5.I74K43 loot 94O.54'724i7'o9Z 02001-900263-7 To my father, RGC (Bob) Keefer, DFC It's not for the sake of a ribboned coat Or the selfish hope of a season's fame That the Captain upon his shoulder smote "Play up! play up! and play the game!" Sir Henry Newbolt,V/'ta/'... | |
 | Anthony Smith - 2003 - 336 oldal
...Newbolt's epic poem makes the comparison as blatant as could be, starting off as it does at school. There's a breathless hush in the Close tonight Ten...sake of a ribboned coat, Or the selfish hope of a season 's fame, But his Captain s hand on his shoulder smote 'Play up! play up! and play the game!'... | |
 | André Odendaal - 2003 - 380 oldal
...Blackjacks vetting the arrivals. Anyway he makes up for that in a speeeh that went from Sir Henry Newbolt's 'There's a breathless hush in the Close tonight, Ten to make and the match to win' into a histrionic set of indigenous praises that left the Englishmen mystified and agog. Lord's was... | |
 | Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell Baron Baden-Powell of Gilwell - 2004 - 454 oldal
...the tower. PLAY THE GAME!* Poem by Henry Newboll Scene I: Tableau of boys playing cricket. RECITATION There's a breathless hush in the close to-night Ten...fame, But his captain's hand on his shoulder smote. [Action: The captain steps up to the batsman, puts his hand on his shoulder, and says to him urgently... | |
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