 | Poetry - 1804 - 184 pages
...STORM. Now burfts the wave that from the clouds Impend?, And fwell'd with tempefts on the fhip defcends; White are the decks with foam ; the winds aloud Howl o'er the mafbs, and fing through every fhroud ; Pale, trembling, tir'd, the failors freeze with fears, And inftant... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 760 pages
...Girt in surrounding flames, he seems to fall. Like fire from Jove, and bursts upon them all : Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd...foam; the winds aloud Howl o'er the masts, and sing through every sh roud Pale, trembling, tir'd, the sailors freeze with fears; And instant death on every... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 790 pages
...fall, Like fire from Jove, and bursts upon them all : Bursts as a wave that from the. clouds impend*. And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends; White...foam; the winds aloud Howl o'er the masts, and sing through evt ry shroud Pale, trembling, tir'd, the sailors freeze with fears; And instant death on every... | |
 | John Sabine - Elocution - 1810 - 308 pages
...close, " the World will call you fool." • POPE. A Storm. Now bursts the 'wave that from the cloud impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends...; White are the decks with foam ; the winds aloud Hovl o'er the masts and sing through every shroud ; Pale, trembling, tir*d, the sailors freeze with... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 770 pages
...Girt in surrounding llames, he seems to fall, Like fire from Jove, and bursts upon them all : Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends; Whitf are the decks with foam; the winds aloud I towl o'er the masts, and sing through erory shroud... | |
 | Greek literature - 1813 - 374 pages
...Girt in surrounding flames, he seems to fall Like fire from Jove, and bursts upon them all : Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship«descends ; White are the decks with foam ; the winds aloud Howl o'er the masts, and sing through... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1816 - 428 pages
...prayer. The other, from Homer, I shall give in Pope's translation : Burst as a wave that from the cloud impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends....foam : the winds aloud Howl o'er the masts, and sing through every shroud. Pale, trembling, tir'd, the sailors freeze with fears, And instant death on every... | |
 | Children's poetry, English - 1820 - 190 pages
...humble hope | resign'd ! WILLIAMS 58 A Storm. — Hassan, or, Tlie Camel-Driver. A STORM. Now bursts the wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with...foam; the winds . aloud, Howl o'er the masts and sing through every shroud ; Pale, trembling, tir'd, the sailors freeze with fears, And instant death on... | |
 | English literature - 1820 - 352 pages
...possible that she might receive an answer to her letter. CHAPTER V. As when a wave, that from a cloud impends, And swell'd with tempests, on the ship descends,...foam; the winds, aloud, Howl o'er the masts, and sing through every shroud : ljale, trembling, tired, the sailors freeze with fears ; And instant death on... | |
 | John Duncan (philosophical writer.) - Genius - 1820 - 138 pages
...description! of Homer so forcible, if it be not the judicious selection of general qualities? such as— " White are the decks with foam ; the winds aloud Howl o'er the masts, and sing thro" every shroud r Pale, trembling, tir'd, the sailors, freeze with fears* And instant death on ev'ry wave... | |
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White are the decks with foam ; the winds aloud Howl o'er the masts, and sing through every shroud ; Pale, trembling, tired, the sailors freeze with fears; And instant death on every wave appears \— So pale the Greeks the eyes of Hector meet, The chief... 
