 | Edward Delaval Hungerford Elers Napier - 1844 - 356 páginas
...wheresoe'er it lead! Though the strain'd mast should quiver as a reed, And the rent canvas, fluttering, stem the gale, Still must I on; for I am as a weed Flung...to sail Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail." BYRON. WE left the little Iris floating quietly at rest on the now smooth and tranquil... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 páginas
...the well-remembered Lord King. Though the strained 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 some rock, on Ocean's foam, to sail Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail. ********... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1845 - 530 páginas
...a reed, And the strained canvass fluttering strew the gale, Yet must I on ; for I am as a weed Hung from the rock, on ocean's foam, to sail Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail." The force of passion with which he could express his sense of individual wrong, and... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 848 páginas
...mast should quiver as a reed, And the rent canvas fluttering strew the guie, Still must I on ; fur ait ils lu haine au doge son père, on brcatfi prevail. III. In my youth's summer I did sing of one, The wandering outlaw of his own dark... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 1068 páginas
...mast should quiver as a reed, And the rent canvass fluttering strew the gale, Still must I on ; for 1 am as a weed, 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... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 692 páginas
...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 am as a weed, Flung from the rock, OH Ocean's foam, to sail Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail. " In my youth's... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 páginas
...Though the strained mast should quiver as a reed, And the rent canvass fluttering strew the gale,1 d hills all rich with blossom 'd trees. And Reids...wine, And scattcr'd * should see With double joy wer breath prevail. m. In my youth's summer I did sing of One, The wandering outlaw of his own dark mind... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1848 - 372 páginas
...Though the strained mast should quiver as a reed, And the rent canvass fluttering strew the gale, Yet must I on ; for I am as a weed Flung from the rock,...sail . Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail." The force of passion with which he could express his sense of individual wrong, and... | |
 | 1848 - 622 páginas
...plagiarism. He conceives, for instance, that Lord Byron is indebted to Montgomery for this simile. For I am as a weed Flung from the rock on ocean's foam to sail. The image surely is a very natural one, that might occur to any person who beholds the sea or the ocean,... | |
 | 1855 - 494 páginas
...instantaneous production of this third canto of "Childe Harold." " I am as a weed, Flung from the rocks on Ocean's foam, to sail Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail." Rejecting a biblic revelation of man and his destiny, Byron gave himself up to a belief... | |
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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... 
