 Once more upon the waters ! yet once more ! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider. Welcome to their roar! Swift be their guidance, wheresoe'er it lead ! Though the...  Essays and Reviews - Page 292by Edwin Percy Whipple - 1851Full view - About this book
 | Tobias Smollett - 1816 - 674 pages
...Though the strain'd mast should quiver as a reed, And the rent canvas fluttering strew the gale, Still must I on ; for I am as a weed, Flung from the rock...the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail." -He then adds, that he resumes the tale of " the wandering outlaw of his own dark mind," to him " a... | |
 | 1817 - 590 pages
...Though the strain'd mast should quiver as a reed, And the rent canvass fluttering strew the gale, Still must I on ; for I am as a weed, Flung from the rock,...the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail.' Canto III. pp. 3, 4. The theme of Childe Harold is then resumed, and the stanzas follow which we have... | |
 | 1818 - 904 pages
...straiu'd mast should quiver as a reed, And the rent canvas fluttering strew the gale, Still must I 011; for I am as a weed, Flung from the rock, on ocean's...the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail." pp.S,4, The noble bard takes the opportunity, during this vagrant voyage, of relating, in about a dozen... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 pages
...quiver as a reed, And the rent canvas fluttering strew the gale, Still must I on; for I am as a wred, Flung from the rock, on Ocean's foam, to sail Where'er...the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail. III. In my youth's summer I did sing of One, The wandering outlaw of his own dark mind; Again I seize... | |
 | Friedrich Johann Jacobsen - 1820 - 796 pages
...Leben, wie er in dem 3ten Tleil von Childe Harold sagt: Once more upon the waters, yes , once more. I am as a weed Flung from the rock , on ocean's foam, to sail Where'er the 'surge may sweep , the tempest breath prevail *). Er ging nach den Niederlanden, Deutschland, der Schweiz, und leht jetzt... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 308 pages
...Though the strain'd mast should quiver as a reed, And the rent canvas fluttering strew the gale, Still must I on ; for I am as a weed, Flung from 'the rock,...the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail. HI. In my youth's summer I did sing of One, The wandering outlaw of his own dark mind ; Again I seize... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 478 pages
...mast should quiver as a reed, And the rent canvas fluttering strew the gale, Still must I on ; for 1 am as a weed, Flung from the rock, on Ocean's foam,...the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail. III. In my youth's summer I did sing of One, The wandering outlaw of his own dark mind; Again I seize... | |
 | 1821 - 766 pages
...on Sheridan. Arioslo. — Natura il fece, e poi ruppi la stampa. Byron. Still must I on, for I am as weed Flung from the rock on ocean's foam to sail Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest'* breath provail. — CH iii. 2. Montgomery. — He only, like the ocean weed uptorn, And loose... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 334 pages
...Though the strain'd mast should quiver as a reed, And the rent eanvass fluttering strew the gale, Still must I on ; for I am as a weed, Flung from the rock,...to sail Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's hreath prevail. In. In my youth's summer I did sing of One, The wandering outlaw of his own dark mind... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 906 pages
...Though the strain'd mast should quiver as a reed, And the rent canvass fluttering strew the gale, Still must I on; for I am as a weed, Flung from the rock,...the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail. .' In my youth's summer I did sing of one, The wandering outlaw of his own dark mind; Again I seize... | |
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