 | Ernest Adams - 1868 - 120 oldal
...In poetry we often speak of things without life or sex, as if they were living creatures : — • " She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife," spoken of a ship. This is called personification. M. F. M. F. beau belle landgrave landgravine czar... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1868 - 666 oldal
...spray. How gloriously her gallant course she goes I Her white wings flying— never from her foesShe 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? IV. Hoarse... | |
 | Arthur Mangin - 1868 - 480 oldal
...a space of three hundred feet long by eighty broad. And so, completed and perfected, the ship now " Walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife." j From the day of its creation, the progress of civilization and that of navigation became so closely... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 oldal
...as the bree2e can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home. Canto i. Stan2a i. She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife. Canto i. Stan2a 3. The power of Thought, — the magic of the Mind. Canto i. Stan2a 8. Solitudinem... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1869 - 420 oldal
...SAIL. How gloriously her gallant course she goes I Her white wing* Eying— 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 he,- peopled deck? 272. REMORSE.... | |
 | John T. Watson - 1869 - 524 oldal
...the white rocks faded from his view, And soon were lost in circumambient foam. BYRON'S Childe Harold. She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife. BYRON'S Corsair. The cloven billow flash'd from off her prow, In furrows form'd by that majestic plough.... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1871 - 442 oldal
...completely. Fr. périr; L. perire, to perish — per, completely, ire, to go. a Stenuand Twigs. Ship:— "She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elementsto strife." Byron. the great calm a Pe. xlvi. 3; Ixxvii. 16 ; cxxiv. 4. Ъ Jacob us í cf.... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1872 - 266 oldal
...spray. How gloriously her gallant course she goes ! Tcr 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 hattle-fire, the wreck, To move the monarch of her peopled deck ? Hoarse o'er... | |
 | mrs. Alexander Fraser - 1872 - 260 oldal
...thing of life and light ; And she bounds beneath the Eastern skies And the beauty of Eastern night.' ' She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife.' IT had been a gorgeous sunset — a sunset such as is rarely seen in cold climes, but one that is common... | |
 | Osborne William Tancock - 1872 - 364 oldal
...bulwarks, No towers along the steep ; Her march is o'er the mountain-waves, Her home is on the deep. 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 ? 4. Milton.... | |
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She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife. 
