 | Henry Gardiner Adams - 1856 - 252 páginas
...her moorings, and with sails spread or funnels smoking, ploughs the deep, or, as a poet has said — "Walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife." But these elements, the winds and the seas, are sometimes too powerful for even the mighty ship of... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1859 - 914 páginas
...spray. How gloriously her gallant course she goes ! Her white wings flying — never from her foes — She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife. Who would not brave the battle-fire — the wreck — To move the monarch of her peopled deck ? IV.... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1859 - 614 páginas
...spray. How gloriously her gallant course she goes ! Her white wings flying — never from her foes — She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife. Who would not brave the battle-fire — the wreck — To move the monarch of her peopled deck ? IV.... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1861 - 734 páginas
...spray. How gloriously her gallant course she goes ! Her white wings flying — never from her foes — She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife. Who would not brave the battle-fire — the wreck — To move the monarch of her peopled deck? IV.... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 páginas
...more, — their eyes and mouths filled with the brown sea-sand. Rtttkin. SHIP— a Thing of Life, ßhe walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elementa to strife. Rijron. SHIPS — Associations connected with. I Ships — ships everywhere ; crowding... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 páginas
...and head and tail, And life to move itself upon the water. SPENSER.— Colin Clout, Vol. V. Line 212. She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife. BYRON. — The Corsair, Canto I. Stanza 8. Adapted from Spenser. Upon the gale she stoop'd her side,... | |
 | James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1863 - 654 páginas
...the poetry, hitherto associated with the navy, and may perhaps be reminded of Byron's lines : — " She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife. Who would not brave the battle fire, — the wreck, To move the monarch of her peopled deck ! " and... | |
 | John William Willcock, Athelstane Willcock - 1863 - 492 páginas
...interested in her and her freight, and to some extent her cargo, may be impersonated in the ship. " She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife." — Corsair. For the due consideration of her rights, and the laws by which she is bound, we must have... | |
 | John William Willcock, Athelstane Willcock - 1863 - 490 páginas
...interested in her and her freight, and to some extent her cargo, may be impersonated in the ship. " She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife." — Corsair. For the due consideration of her rights, and the laws by which she is bound, we must have... | |
 | 1864 - 728 páginas
...at once pressed into the service ; and we are informed from the ' Corsair,' regarding a ship, that ' She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife.' In justice to the authors, we must, however, acknowledge that they also tell us about the treaties... | |
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She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife. 
