 | William Martin - 1838 - 368 pages
...watch the mightiest till the shoal they reach, Then break and hurry to their utmost stretch ; Curl'd as they come, they strike with furious force, And...past Roll'd by their rage, and shall to ages last. CAMPBELL. THE POET AND HIS POETRY. [THOMAS CAMPBELL, the Bard of Hope, was born at Glasgow, in 1777,... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 336 pages
...watch the mightiest till the shoal they reach, Then hreak and hurry to their utmost stretch ; Curl'd as they come, they strike with furious force, And...Raking the rounded flints, which ages past Roll'd hy their rage, and shall to ages last. CRABBF... 101 ROGER CUFF. Now to his grave was Roger Cuff con... | |
 | 1840 - 378 pages
...watch the mightiest till the shoal they reach, Then break and hurry ta their utmost stretch ; Curl'd as they come, they strike with furious force* And...by their rage, and shall to ages last. Far off the peterel in the troubled way Swims with her brood, or flutters in the spray ; She rises often, often... | |
 | 1843 - 280 pages
...watch the mightiest till the shoal they reach, Then break and hurry to their utmost stretch ; Curled as they come, they strike with furious force, And...course, Raking the rounded flints, which ages past Rolled by their rage, and shall to ages last. Far off the Petrel, in the troubled way Swims with her... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1845 - 558 pages
...watch the mightiest till the shoal they reach, Then break and hurry to their utmost stretch ; Curl'd as they come, they strike with furious force, And...re-flowing, take their grating course, Raking the rounded flint«, which ages past Roll'd by their rage, and shall to ages last. Far off the petrel in the troubled... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1846 - 376 pages
...watch the mightiest till the shoal they reach, Then break and hurry to their utmost stretch : Curl'd as they come, they strike with furious force, And...Swims with her brood, or flutters in the spray ; She risei often, often drops again, And sports at ease on the tempestuous main. High oer the restless deep,... | |
 | Mary Milner - 1849 - 808 pages
...watch the mightiest till the shoal they reach, Then break and hurry to their utmost stretch ; Curl'd as they come, they strike with furious force, And then re-flowing, take their grating course."— CRABBE. When the rollers set in at Ascension Island, nought is to be seen, so far as the eye can extend... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1847 - 618 pages
...watch the mightiest till the shoal they reach, Then break and hurry to their utmost stretch ; Curl'd ae they come, they strike with furious force, And then...ages past Roll'd by their rage, and shall to ages last.18 Far off the Petrel in the troubled way Swims with her brood, or flutters in the spray ; She... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 pages
...with fnrions foree, And then, reflowing, take their grating eonrse. Raking the ronnded flints, whieh ages past Roll'd by their rage, and shall to ages last. Far off, the petrel, in the tronbled way, Swims with her brood, or flntters in the spray ; She rises often, often drops again,... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pages
...watch the mightiest till the shoal they reach, Then break and hurry to their utmost stretch ; Curl'd as they come, they strike with furious force, And...past Roll'd by their rage, and shall to ages last. Stanzas. Let me not have this gloomy view About my room, around my bed; But morning roses, wet with... | |
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But nearer land, you may the billows trace, As if contending in their watery chase ; May watch the mightiest till the shoal they reach, Then break and hurry to their utmost stretch : Curl'd as they come, they strike with furious force, And then re-flowing,... 
