 Shagg'd o'er with wavy rocks, cheerless, and void Of every life, that from the dreary months Flies conscious southward. Miserable they ! Who, here entangled in the gathering ice, Take their last look of the descending sun ; While, full of death, and fierce...  Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste - Page 44by Archibald Alison - 1812 - 434 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...The binding fury ; but, in all its rage Of tempest, taken by the boundless frost, Is many a fathom uccess,) liuin. and desperation, and dismay, Who durst so Such was the Briton's § fate, As with firs* prow (what have not Britons dar'ci!; He for tnc passage... | |
 | 1820 - 224 pages
...that Sir Hugh Willoughby, an enterprising English natigator, perished with all hi* crew, in 1553. • Miserable they, Who, here entangled in the gathering...night, incumbent o'er their heads, Falls horrible. Such was the Briton's fate, As with first prow (what have not Britons dared ?) He for the passage sought,... | |
 | Biography - 1820 - 230 pages
...Willoughby, an enterprising English navigator, perished with all hi» crew, in 1553. ^— fyliserable they, Who, here entangled in the gathering ice, Take...night, incumbent o'er their heads. Falls horrible. Such was the Briton's fate, As with first prow (what have not Britons dared r) He for the passage sought,... | |
 | Maria Hack - Adventure and adventurers - 1820 - 226 pages
...Arzina, in Lapland, where he and his companions really took " Their last look of the descending *un— While full of death, and fierce with tenfold frost,...The long, long night, incumbent o'er their heads, Fell horrible." LUCY. How could that ever be known, if the people were all frozen ? MRS. B. Their bodies... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 278 pages
...resist The binding fury : but, in all its rage Of tempest taken by the boundless frost, Is many a fathom to the bottom chain'd, And bid to roar no more : a...night, incumbent o'er their heads, Falls horrible. Such was the Briton's '4 fate, As with first prow (what have not Britons dared !) He for the passage... | |
 | Compendium - 1822 - 342 pages
...SPITSBERGEN. " Miserable they, Who, here entangled in the gathering ice, Take their last look of the departing sun ; While, full of death, and fierce with tenfold frost, The long long night, incumbent o'er their beads, Falls horrible!" THOMSON. What is Spitzbergen ? A group of large islands, deriving their name... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1823 - 400 pages
...in the gathering ice. Take their last look of the descending sun ; While full of death, and tierce with tenfold frost. The long, long night incumbent o'er their heads, Falls horrible ! Such was the Briton's fate, As with first prow (what have not Britons dared-?) He for the passage... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...and solid floods, That stretch, athwart the solitary vast, Their icy horror to the frozen main. Hid. Miserable they; Who, here entangled in the gathering...night, incumbent o'er their heads, Falls horrible. Ibid. Oh Winter ! ruler of th' inverted year, Thy scatter'd hair with sleet-like ashes fill'd, Thy... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...wavy rocks, cheeriest, and void Of every life, that from the dreary months Flies conscious.southward. Miserable they ! Who, here entangled in the gathering...The long, long night} incumbent o'er their heads, * M. de Maupertuis, in his book on the figure of the earth, after having described the beautiful lake... | |
 | James Thomson - Seasons - 1826 - 438 pages
...its rage Of tempest taken by the boundless frost, In many a fathom to the bottom chaii,'d , And hid to roar no more: a bleak expanse, Shagg'd o'er with...night, incumbent o'er their heads, Falls horrible. Such was the BRITON'S fate, As with first prow, (what have not BRITON'S dar'd!) He for the passage... | |
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