| Samuel Johnson - 1895 - 234 páginas
...charm'd with what his loom design'd, Goes on to sea, and knows not to retire. With roomy decks, her guns of mighty strength, Whose low-laid mouths each...her draught, and warlike in her length, She seems a sea- wasp flying on the waves.' " What a wonderful pother is here, to make all these poetical beautifications... | |
| Walter Scott - 1896 - 514 páginas
...before the wind by which the brig of the Udaller was beating in. ' A tight thing that, by my ancestors' bones ! ' said the old Udaller ; ' but I cannot make...her draught, and warlike in her length, She seems a sea- wasp flying on the waves. ' Brenda could not help telling Halcro, when he had spouted this stanza... | |
| Walter Scott - 1898 - 936 páginas
...glorious John says: " With roomy deck, and guns of mighty strength, Whose low-laid mouths each mountain billow laves, Deep in her draught, and warlike in her length, She seems a sea-waup flying on the waves." Brenda could not help telling Halcro, when he had spouted this stanza... | |
| Edmund Gosse - 1899 - 420 páginas
...is seen in such as this, so closely criticised both by Johnson and Scott — " With roomy decks, her guns of mighty strength, Whose low-laid mouths each...length, She seems a sea-wasp flying on the waves," while the perilous agility of Donne's wit is felt in the description of the heavy rains which checked... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 216 páginas
...design'd, Goes on to sea, and knows not to retire. With roomy decks her guns of mighty strength, 20 Whose low-laid mouths each mounting billow laves,...length, She seems a sea-wasp flying on the waves. What a wonderful pother is here, to make all these poetical beautifications of a ship ; that is, a... | |
| Edmund Gosse - 1899 - 420 páginas
...is seen in such as this, so closely criticised both by Johnson and Scott— " With roomy decks, her guns of mighty strength, Whose low-laid mouths each...Deep in her draught, and warlike in her length, She teems a sea-wasp flying on the waves," while the perilous agility of Donne's wit is felt in the description... | |
| Walter Scott - 1893 - 748 páginas
...before the wind by which the brig of the Udaller waa beating in. " A tight thing that, by my ancestors' bones ! " said the old Udaller; "but I cannot make...her draught, and warlike in her length, She seems a sea- wasp flying on the waves.' " Brenda could not help telling Halcro, when he had spouted this stanza... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 530 páginas
...charm'd with what his loom design'd, Goes on to sea, and knows not to retire, " With roomy decks, her guns of mighty strength, Whose low-laid mouths each...her length, She seems a sea-wasp flying on the waves '." What a wonderful pother is here, to make all these poetical beautifications of a ship ! that is,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1906 - 606 páginas
...that, by my ancestors' bones ! " said the old Udaller; "but I cannot make out of what country, as sht shows no colours. Spanish built, I should think her."...Brenda could not help telling Halcro, when he had spoutec his stanza with great enthusiasm, " that though the description was more like a first-rate... | |
| Charles Harding Firth - 1908 - 528 páginas
...best ship in the world,' gives a good picture of a first-rate of the period : ' With roomy decks, her guns of mighty strength, Whose low-laid mouths each...length, She seems a sea-wasp flying on the waves.' In another passage he contrasts the naval architecture and the naval tactics of the English and the... | |
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