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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... "
Avenia, Or, A Tragical Poem, on the Oppression of the Human Species, and ... - Page 193
1805 - 358 pages
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The Poetical Works of A. Pope: Including His Translation of Homer , to which ...

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...ike fire from Jove, and hursts upon them all : Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, • ml incere through every shroud Pale, tremhling, tired, the sailors freeze with few: i And instant death on every...
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A Grammar of Rhetoric, and Polite Literature: Comprehending the Principles ...

Alexander Jamieson - English language - 1838 - 338 pages
...bursts upon them all ; Bursts as a wave, that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempest o'er the ship descends. White are the decks with foam ; the winds aloud Howl o'er the masts, and ring through every shroud, Pale, tremblmg, tired, the sailors freeze with iears, And instant death...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by H.F. Cary, with a biogr. notice ...

Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...bursts upon them all : Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And, swell'd with temjHiSts, on the ship descends ; 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...
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Travels in China, New Zealand, New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, Cape Horn ...

James Holman - Australia - 1840 - 554 pages
...her beam ends, and three of her sails were split in the brails. Bursts 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. — Pope's Homer. Monday, 30. — The three preceding days we had nothing but...
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The Iliad of Homer, Volume 2

Homer - 1840 - 292 pages
...Girt in surrounding flames, ho 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 deoks with foam ; the winds aloud Howl o'er the masts, and sing through every shroud : Pale, trembling,...
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A Grammar of Rhetoric and Polite Literature: Comprehending the Principles of ...

Alexander Jamieson - English language - 1840 - 314 pages
...bursts upon them all ; Bursts as a wave, that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempest o'er the ship descends. White are the decks with foam ; the winds aloud Howl o'er the masts, and ring through every shroud, Pale, trembling, tired, the sailors freeze with fears, And instant death...
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The Modern History and Condition of Egypt: Its Climate, Diseases ..., Volume 1

William Holt Yates - Egypt - 1843 - 620 pages
...unrelenting rage, that we should still ride on " superior." " Now bursts the wave that from the cloud impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends...decks with foam*; the winds aloud Howl o'er the masts, aud sing through every shroud. Pale, trembling, tir'd, the sailors freeze with fears, And instant death...
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Elements of Criticism: With Analyses, and Translation of Ancient and Foreign ...

Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1847 - 516 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...
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Translation of the Iliad of Homer

Homer - 1849 - 582 pages
...seems to fall, 750 Like fire from Jove he bursts upon them all: Bursts as 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. Pale, trembling, tired, the sailors freeze with fears: And instant death on every...
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The garland; or, Poetry for childhood and youth

Garland - 1850 - 152 pages
...bonds, than fasten them on him. A STORM. Now bursts the wave that from the clouds impends, And swelled with tempests on the ship descends, White are the...with foam ; the winds aloud Howl o'er the masts, and singthro' every shroud; Pale, trembling, tired, the sailors freeze with fears, And instant death on...
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