| 1839 - 384 páginas
...BARK. How gloriously her gallant coarse 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. — BYRON. Bright and beauteous, fearless and free, Speeds on my gallant bark, On stormy winds, o'er... | |
| John William Carleton - 1855 - 528 páginas
...from that mine of poetic imagination, the mind of Byron, describes the vessel's course by saying — " She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to drive the elements to strife," though it could be still quoted as even more applicable where steam... | |
| John Timbs - 1840 - 430 páginas
...adieu to my friends, (at Baltimore,) as we stepped on board a Norfolk steamer. " She walks the water like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife." Soon we were leaving the city, with her Eroud monuments, her towers and spires, ouses and shipping... | |
| William Cowper - 1841 - 362 páginas
...old Grecian to evaporate in the process. We would compare the original to a gallant vessel, that " Walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife ;" Cowper's translation, to the same vessel, just about to depart from port, with all her rigging perfect... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 páginas
...spray. How gloriously her gallant course she goe» ! Her white wings flying — never from her foes — urels on the bald first Caesar's head ; з When the light shines serene but doth not Who would not brave the battle-fire — the wreck — To move the monarch of her peopled deck 1 IV.... | |
| 1844 - 402 páginas
...nearer, she breasts the storm and current, flinging the white-caps from her prow as she approaches : " She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife !" Nearer and nearer, she urges her foaming way — she is around the point — she is abreast the... | |
| 1844 - 276 páginas
...seaman than a heavy gale of wind. (Signed) NEPTUNE. Witness, AWPHITRITE, her ¡xj mark. CHAPTER I. . She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife : Who would not brave the battle and the wreck, To move the monarch of her peopled deck ? COBS4IR.... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1862 - 604 páginas
...disappearance of 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. AVho wou'd not brave the battle-fire— the wreck, To move the monarch of her peopled deck ?" and then... | |
| 1845 - 532 páginas
...nearer, she breasts the storm and current, flinging the white-caps from her prow as she approaches : " She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife !" Nearer and nearer, she urges her foaming way — she is around the point — she is abreast the... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 1068 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.... | |
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