 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 - 1843 - 830 pages
...chain'd, And bid to roar no more : a bleak expanse, Shagg'd o'er with wavy rocks, cheerless, and vo: tricks to catch Such was the Briton's§ fate. As wi\\vjlrst prow (what have not Britons dar'd !) He for the passage... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...to roar no more : a bleak expanse, Shagg'd o'er with wavy rocks, cheerless, and vof Of every lifc, d Such was the Briton's $ fate. As with first prow (what have not Britons dar'd !) He for the passage... | |
 | Child rearing - 1843 - 408 pages
...them, can ndv only be matter of sad conjecture. Thomson thus pathe tically 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 with first, prow (what have not Britons dared' He for the passage sought,... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1843 - 592 pages
...tristement autour <1 un ciel glacé. 412 413 Miserable they (Vlio , lie entangled in tue gatli'ring ice rake their last look of the descending sun ! While, full of death , and fierce with tenfold frost, rhô long , long niglit , in cumbent o'er their head , Falls horrible '. « Malheureux celui qui ,... | |
 | Francis Fauvel-Gouraud - Ciphers - 1845 - 676 pages
...all its rage Of tempest taken by the boundless frost, Is many a fathom to the bottom chained, And hid to roar no more : a bleak expanse, Shagg'd o'er with...night, incumbent o'er their heads, Falls horrible." But, like all otherworldly crowns, the empire of the tyrant of the poles must soon be resigned. As... | |
 | Sir John Leslie, Robert Jameson, Hugh Murray - Arctic regions - 1845 - 440 pages
...laments their fate : — Miserable they, Who, here entangled in the gathering ice, Take their lust look of the descending sun ; While full of death,...night, incumbent o'er their heads, Falls horrible. Such was the Briton's fate, As with first prow (what have not Britons dared !l He for the passage sought,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1847 - 504 pages
...differs greatly ; that from sea- water rises only one fiftieth of the mass above the surface of .the 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 dar'd !) He for the passage... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1849 - 416 pages
...boundless frost, Is many a fathom to the bottom chained, And bid 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... | |
 | James Thomson - 1849 - 524 pages
...080 Who, here entaugled in the gathering ice, Take their last look of the descending son; While, fall of death and fierce with tenfold frost, The long long night, incumbent o'er their bead*, Falls horrible. Such was the Briton's* fate, 986 As with first prow (what have nol Britons ilared... | |
 | John Joseph Shillinglaw - 1850 - 380 pages
...brought them." The well known lines of Thomson record in beautiful language this frightful catastrophe. " 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... | |
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