 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
 | Thomas Milner - 1850 - 604 pages
...admiral, sir Hugh "Willoughby ; the third vessel gaining with difficulty the shores of the White Sea : " 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 — He for the passage sought, attempted since So much... | |
 | William Cowper - 1851 - 620 pages
...river (the Tenglio) roses of as lively a red at any that are in our ^aruens. ; Tha other hemisphere. And bid to roar no more: a bleak expanse, Shagg'd...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... | |
 | William Holmes, John Warner Barber - Allegories - 1851 - 342 pages
...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."— Thompson. For J saith tAe Lord will be .... a wail of fire round about. THE PROTECTED TRAVELER. Zec-li.S... | |
 | James Grant - 1851 - 274 pages
...the " Colonial Magazine," with an Illustration and Maps. Foolscap 8vo. cloth, emblematically gilt. " Miserable they ! Who here entangled in the gathering...night, incumbent o'er their heads, Falls horrible." COWPER. UNIFORM EDITIONS OF LONGFELLOW'S PROSE AND POETICAL WORKS, Price Two Shillings each, cloth,... | |
 | John Joseph Shillinglaw - Arctic regions - 1851 - 402 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... | |
 | Elizabeth Caroline Grey - 1851 - 266 pages
...the " Colonial Magazine," with an Illustration and Maps. Foolscap 8vo. cloth, emblematically gilt. « Miserable they! Who here entangled in the gathering...night, incumbent o'er their heads, Falls horrible." COWFKB. UNIFORM EDITIONS OF LONGFELLOW'S PROSE AND POETICAL WORKS, Price Two Shillings each, cloth,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1851 - 624 pages
...in the gathering ice, Take their last look of the descending sun; While, full of death, and fieree 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 daredt', He for the passage... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...chain'd, And bid to roar no more : a bleak expanse, Shagg'd o'er with wavy rocks, cheerless, and vaf n receives, Such was the Briton's $ fate, As with first prow (what have not Britons dar'd : . He for the passage... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - English literature - 1852 - 570 pages
...Miserable they ! Who here, entangled in the gathering ice, Take their last look of the descending sun ; 920 While, full of death, and fierce with tenfold frost,...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,... | |
 | James Thomson, George Gilfillan - English poetry - 1853 - 408 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's1 fate, 925 As with first prow (what have not Britons dared 1) He for the passage... | |
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