 implacable smiting of the black waves, provoking each other on, endlessly, all the infinite march of the Atlantic rolling on behind them to their help and still to strike them back into a wreath of smoke and futile foam, and win its way against them,...  The Review of Reviews - Page 292edited by - 1895Full view - About this book
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1907 - 420 pages
...unwearied enmity of ocean, — the subtle, fitful, implacable smiting of the black waves, provokingeach other on, endlessly, all the infinite march of the...life from them; — does any other soulless thing do as much as this?" This noble paragraph has truth, originality, music, majesty, with that imitative... | |
 | Daniel Jones - 1914 - 112 pages
...to bare its breast, moment after moment, against the unwearied enmity of ocean ; the subtle, fitful, implacable smiting of the black waves, provoking each...of life from them. Does any other soulless thing do as much as this ? I should not have talked of this feeling of mine about a boat if I had thought it... | |
 | 1900 - 700 pages
...bare its breast, moment after moment, against the unwearied enmity of ocean, — the subtle, fitful, implacable smiting of the black waves provoking each...against them, and keep its charge of life from them ; — dons any other soulless thing do as much as this? " This noble paragraph has truth, originality,... | |
 | Félix François Boillot - 1924 - 176 pages
...bare its breast, moment after moment, against the unwearied enmity of ocean, — the subtle, fitful, implacable smiting of the black waves, provoking each...smoke and futile foam, and win its way against them ; does any other soulless thing do as much as this ? ", we have a truly Oceanic phrase. There is abundant... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1907 - 424 pages
...unwearied enmity of ocean, — the subtle, fitful, implacable smiting of the black waves, provokingeach other on, endlessly, all the infinite march of the...life from them; — does any other soulless thing do as much as this ?" This noble paragraph has truth, originality, music, majesty, with that imitative... | |
 | Edmund Noble - 1926 - 602 pages
...bare its breast, moment after moment, against the unwearied enmity of ocean — the subtle, fitful, implacable smiting of the black waves, provoking each...rolling on behind them to their help, and still to stroke them back into a wreath of smoke and futile foam, and win its way against them, and keep its... | |
 | 1895 - 1140 pages
...to'^bare its breast, moment after moment, against the unwearied enmity of ocean,—the subtle, fitful, implacable smiting of the black waves, provoking each...them back into a wreath of smoke and futile foam, and^win its way against them, and keep its charge of life from them ;—does any other soulless thing... | |
 | 1895 - 1140 pages
...fitful, implacable smiting of the black wave», provoking each other on, endlessly, all the inunito march of the Atlantic rolling on behind them to their help and still to strike them back into ¡x wreath of smoke and futile foam, and win its way against them, and keep ite charge of life from... | |
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