 | Robert Swain - 1846 - 278 oldal
...quivering frame ; the sea flashing from her prow, and the white waves boiling and curling in her wake, " She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife." Aug. 25. On Tuesday we started for a swordfishing voyage off Nantucket Shoals, and so on to Nahant.... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 848 oldal
...spray. How gloriously her gallant course she gm's ! г white wings flying — never from her foesShe b( xZ}` hI y 5 6 !8 _ %&G 4 8O z m+ ik " And thus the heart Who would not brave the battle-fire — the wreckTo move the monarch of her peopled deck? IV. rloarse... | |
 | 1847 - 540 oldal
...white rocks faded from his view, And soon were lost in circumambient foam. BVRON'S Childe Harold. 6. She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife. BYRON'S Corsair. 7. The cloven billow fiash'd from off her prow, In furrows form'd by that majestic... | |
 | Tracts for the people - 1847 - 800 oldal
...ease." How beautiful is the gallant ship, with her white canvass spread to catch the freshening breeze! she "•"Walks the waters like a thing Of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife." Bnt the sky is overcast — an appalling accident occurs, and lo I she becomes in a moment the sport... | |
 | British and foreign sailors' society - 1847 - 614 oldal
...ease." How beautiful is the gallant ship, with her white canvass spread to catch the freshening breeze ! she " Walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife." But the sky is overcast — an appalling accident occurs, and lo ! she becomes, in a moment, the sport... | |
 | John Dignan - 1847 - 306 oldal
...CHAPTER XVI. How gloriously her gallant coarse she g-es ! Her white Hug 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 wreckTo move the monarch of her peopled deck ? BYRON'S... | |
 | 1847 - 446 oldal
...the adventurous fisherman, then the stately ship, which, in the expressive language of the poet, ' Walks the waters like a thing of life, * And seems to dare the elements to strife ; ' and after this the wonder-working perfection of the all but miraculous steam-ship. To the scarcely... | |
 | 1847 - 884 oldal
...the adventurous fisherman, then the stately ship, which, in the expressive language of the poet, ' Walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife;' and after this the wonder-working perfection of the all but miraculous steam-ship. To the scarcely... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1848 - 320 oldal
...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 ? IT.... | |
 | Joseph A. Nunes - 1848 - 272 oldal
...spread, and the light vessel started gayly down the stream before a fine breeze. " ' She walks the water like a thing of life. And seems to dare the elements to strife !' exclaimed Major Lawton, apostrophizing the little vessel, as she dashed the spray from beneath her... | |
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She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife. 
