 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1851 - 352 էջ
...guidance, wheresoe'er it lead ! Though the strain'd mast should quiver as a reed, And the rent canvass fluttering strew the gale, Still must I on ; for I...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... | |
 | Daniel Wise - 1851 - 294 էջ
...for good, and not for evil ? Say not of yourself, in careless, self-abandonment to circumstances, " I am as a weed Flung from the rock, on ocean's foam...the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail.' But take your stand before the world, with an invincible determination — with " An earnest purpose... | |
 | John Sartain, Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - 1851 - 504 էջ
...edificare; un solo basta per distruggere tutto." The lines in the beginning of the third canto, — "For I am as a weed Flung from the rock, on ocean's foam to sail Where'er the surge may sweep, or tempests breath prevail,"— strongly resemble Horace's, "Quo me cunqne raplt, tempestas deferor... | |
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...recals to the imaginative mind the words of the poet : — "Still must I on : for I am as a weed Fiung from the rock, on ocean's foam to sail, Where'er the...surge may sweep — the tempest's breath prevail." And we might fancy that the very individual we looked upon, or others of the same species, might thus... | |
 | John Henderson (capt. 78th Highlanders.) - 1851 - 342 էջ
...the waters, like a spirit which controls them, rather than the work of men's hands launched forth, " On ocean's foam to sail, Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail." The hlack clouds careered along overhead at race-horse speed, the rain occasionally pouring down violently.... | |
 | Adrien Rouquette - 1852 - 170 էջ
...tristesse et une touchante humilité : " je ne suis rien ; For I am as a weed Flung from tli? roc!: on ocean's foam, to sail Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's (breath prevail ! (BïRON.) "Je ne suis rien qu'un grain de pous" sière perdu dans l'immensité de la " création... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1853 - 1024 էջ
...guidance, whcresoe'er it lead ! Though the strain'd mast should quiver as a reed, And the rent canvass g Wo may deplore and struggle with the coil, In wretched...striving where nono are strong. There, in a moment, we in. In my vouth's summer I did sing of One, The wandering outlaw of his own dark mind; Again I seize... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1853 - 434 էջ
...Though the strained mast should quiver as a reed, And the rent canvas fluttering strew the gale, Yet must I on ; for I am as a weed Flung from the rock,...Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath preTail." The force of passion with which he could express his sense of individual wrong, and his power... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1854 - 320 էջ
...beneath me as a steed That knows his rider. Welcome to their roar ! Swift be their guidance, wheresoe'er it lead ! Though the strain'd mast should quiver as...the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail. CHILDE HAROLD.— Canto III. HAROLD'S PREFERENCE OF NATURE TO SOCIETY. HAROLD'S PREFERENCE OF NATURE... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1126 էջ
...beneath me as a steed That knows his rider. Welcome, to their roar ! Swift be their guidance, wheresoe'cr it lead ! Though the strain'd mast should quiver as...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... | |
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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... 
