 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...  The works of the rt. hon. lord Byron - Էջ 79George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | 1832 - 598 էջ
...part! — Out on our life, could we not make A spiritual temple of the heart! TOM CRINGLE'S LOG.s — ' For I am as a weed, Flung from the rock, on ocean's foam to sail, Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempcst's breath prevail.' Third Canto if Ckilde Harold. We bad to beat up for three days before we... | |
 | 1831 - 412 էջ
...of Europe would portend a storm, must in some measure be left to seek its own harbour; it is (f Like a weed Flung from the rock on Ocean's foam to sail. Where'er the surge may sweep, Che tempest's breath prevail." From what I have said, it is not to be inferred, that I would advise... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1832 - 488 էջ
...guidance, wheresoe'er it lead ! Though the strain'd mast should quiver as a reed, And the rent canvas fluttering strew the gale, Still must I on ; for I...to sail Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath 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.) - 1832 - 488 էջ
...guidance, wheresoe'er it lead ! Though the strain' d mast should quiver as a reed, And the rent canvas fluttering strew the gale, Still must I on ; for I...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... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1832 - 358 էջ
...currents, and other causes, do not interfere. All are familiar with the sight of the floating sea-weed " Flung from the rock on ocean's foam to sail, Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail." Remarkable accumulations of drift weed occur on each side of the equator in the Atlantic,... | |
 | Michael Scott - 1833 - 254 էջ
...other pleasant matters, well worthy of being recorded, how Thomas communed with his two Consciences. -" For I am as a weed, Flung from the rock, on ocean's...sail, Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail." Third Canto ofChilde Harold. WE had to beat up for three days before we could weather... | |
 | Michael Scott - 1833 - 400 էջ
...LIBRARY The gift of Miss Emma E I. Dunston TOM CRINGLE'S LOG. ** I am as a wood, Flung from the rork on ocean's foam to sail, Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail." CHILDE HAROI.n. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, EDINBURGH ; AND T. CADELL,... | |
 | Henry Marie Brackenridge - 1834 - 256 էջ
...gave him a sound drubbing, a new suit of clothes and a purse of money, and then turned him adrift, • As a weed, Flung from the rock, on ocean's foam to sail, Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail. I never saw Joe but once afterwards. He had been a constable in some new settlement.... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1835 - 472 էջ
...currents, and other causes, do not interfere. All are familiar with the sight of the floating sea-weed, " Flung from the rock on ocean's foam to sail, Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail." Remarkable accumulations of that species of seaweed generally known as gulf-weed,... | |
 | George Bennett - 1834 - 448 էջ
...two tropics, and examples rarely occur beyond the forty-second degree in either hemisphere : — " Flung from the rock on ocean's foam to sail, Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempests breath prevail ;" will only now be partly applicable to this weed, as it is tolerably well... | |
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