| John Holland - 1843 - Страниц: 402
...Version of the same Psalm by Dr. Watts, which he has entitled " A Song for the Fifth of November !" PSALM CXXIV. If God himself had not been on our side,...us, we had been destroy'd, They were so wrathfully displeased at us ; The stream had overwhelm'd us, the proud waves Had gone e'en o'er us. Praised be... | |
| Jay Parini - 1995 - Страниц: 788
...it cost Them is their secret. In the sperm-whale's slick I see the Quakers drown and hear their cry: "If God himself had not been on our side, If God himself had not been on our side, When the Atlantic rose against us, why, Then it had swallowed us up quick." IV This is... | |
| William Galvani - 1999 - Страниц: 236
...Ahab's void and forehead. . . ROBERT LOWELL from the poem "The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket', 1946 If God himself had not been on our side, If God himself had not been on our side, When the Atlantic rose against us, why, Then it had swallowed us up quick. ROBERT LOWELL... | |
| George Thaddeus Wright - 2001 - Страниц: 348
...the flies, the flies" (LWC, 47), "yuck-a, yuck-a, yuck-a, yuck-a" (Mills, 25), and, most tellingly, "If God himself had not been on our side, / If God himself had not been on our side" (LWC, 10), and "Cut your own throat. Cut your own throat. Now! Now!" (LWC, 61). This almost... | |
| Edward Brunner - 2001 - Страниц: 330
...(among other things) a critique of the Protestant Ethic: I see the Quakers drown and hear their cry: "If God himself had not been on our side, If God himself had not been on our side, When the Atlantic rose against us, why, Then it had swallowed us quick." ("Quaker" 171)... | |
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