 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
 | Sir John Leslie, Robert Jameson, Hugh Murray - Arctic regions - 1832 - 946 pages
...them, — can no only be matter of sad conjecture. Thomson tht pathetically laments their fate : — Miserable they, Who, here entangled in the gathering...night, incumbent o'er their heads, Falls horrible. Such was the Briton's fate, As wither*/ prow (what have not Britons dared !) He for the passage sought,... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - Elocution - 1832 - 122 pages
...dreary months, Flies conscious southward. Miserable they ! Who, here entangled in the gath'ring ice, 35 Take their last look of the descending sun ; While,...of death, and fierce with tenfold frost, The long, leng night, incumbent o'er their heads, Falls horrible. Such was the J BRITON'S fate, As with first... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1834 - 388 pages
...Miserable they AVho, here entangled in the gath'ring ice, Take their last look of the descending SUD! While, full of death, and fierce with tenfold frost, The long, long night, incumbent o'er their head, Falls horrible '. « Malheureux celui qui, embarrassé dans les « glaces croissantes, suit de... | |
 | James Thomson - 1836 - 200 pages
...tempest taken by the boundless frost,— . / A Is many a fathom to the bottom.cham'd, Who, here entangle Take their last look of the descending sun ; While,...full of death, and fierce with tenfold frost, "The other hemisphere. The long, long night, incumbent o'er their heads, 'alls horrible. Such was the Eriton's*... | |
 | James Thomson - 1836 - 164 pages
...Miserahle they ! Who, here entangled in the gathering ice, Take their last look of the descending snn ; While, full of death, and fierce with tenfold frost, The long, long night, incumhent o'er their heads. Falls horrihle. Such was the Briton'sf fate As with first prow (what have... | |
 | James Thomson - 1838 - 236 pages
...frost, Is many a fathom to the bottom chained, And bid r to roar no more : a bleak expanse, Shagged o'er with wavy rocks, cheerless, and void Of every...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,... | |
 | 1839 - 532 pages
...age. The expedition was never more heard of: it perished miserably, as alluded to by the pout :— Miserable they, Who, here entangled in the gathering...night, incumbent o'er their heads, Falls horrible. Such was the Briton'j fate, As with first prow (what have not Unions dared Me fur the passage sought,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1840 - 174 pages
...and void Of every life, that from the dreary months Flies conscious southward. Miserable they ! 920 Who, here entangled in the gathering ice, Take their...night, incumbent o'er their heads, Falls horrible. Such was the Briton's fate,* 925 As with first prow (what have not Britons dared !) He for the passage... | |
 | James Thomson - Seasons - 1841 - 352 pages
...o'er with wavy rocks, cheerless, and void Of every life, that from the dreary months Flies c(insi:ious southward. Miserable they ! Who, here entangled in...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... | |
 | James Thomson - 1842 - 440 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'st fate As with first prow (what have not Britons dar'd?) He for the passage sought,... | |
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