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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 illustrated public school speaker and reader based on grammatical ...

Alexander Kennedy Isbister - Oratory - 1870 - 420 pages
...The combat deepens. On, ye brave! Who rush to glory or the grave. He burste upon them all;— Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd...the ship descends; White are the decks with foam. Ex. 1O. Unaccented Vowels. Temperature depends upon the property all bodies possess, more or less,...
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The Iliad, tr. by Pope

Homerus - 1870 - 552 pages
...fire from Jove, and bursts upon them all : Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swelled with tempests on the ship descends ; White are the decks with foam ; the winds aloud 755 Howl o'er the masts, and sing through every shroud ; Pale, trembling, tired, the sailors freeze...
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Outlines of elocution and correct reading

Alexander Kennedy Isbister - Elocution - 1870 - 104 pages
...grave. He bursts upon them all ; — . Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swill" d with tempests on the ship descends ; White are the decks with foam. fix. 1O. Unaccented Vowels. Temperature depends upon the property all bodies possess, more or less,...
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Memoirs, tr. by C. Winchester, Volume 2

James Johnstone (chevalier de.) - 1871 - 210 pages
...the cabin as fast as I could, but not * " Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swelled with tempests on the ship descends, White are the...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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Memoirs of the Chevalier de Johnstone...

James Johnstone Johnstone (chevalier de) - Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746 - 1871 - 208 pages
...Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swelled with tempests on the ship descends, White aro 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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The Iliad, tr. by A. Pope, with notes by T.A. Buckley

Homerus - 1874 - 494 pages
...fire from Jove, and bursts upon them all : Bursts as a wave that from the cloud impends, And, swcll'd with tempests, on the ship descends ; White are the...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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Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious Indexes ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...the Phestan shores With shatter'd vessels and disabled oars. POPE. 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 ev'ry shroud. Pale, trembling, tired, the sailors freeze with fears, And instant death on ev'ry...
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Homer's Iliad

Homer - 1877 - 558 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 fear?: And instant death on every...
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Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson

Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...the Phestan shores With shatter'd vessels and disabled oars. POPE. 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 ev'ry shroud. Pale, trembling, tired, the sailors freeze with fears, And instant death on ev'ry...
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The Cyclopædia of Practical Quotations: English and Latin, with an Appendix ...

Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1882 - 926 pages
...To bellow through the vast and boundless deep. h. MILTON — Paradisr hint. Bk. I. Line 174. 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 shroud : Pale, trembling, tired, the sailors freeze with fears ; And instant death on...
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