 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 384 pages
...view'd their captain's fate with piteous eyes ; While others scoff'd his augur'd miseries, Sneer'd at the prospect of his pigmy sail, And the slight...fairy of the sea, Seems far less fragile, and, alas I more free. He, when the lightning-wing'd tornados sweep The surge, is safe — his port is in the... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 pages
...And view'd their captain's fate with piteous eyes ; While others scofTd his augur'd miseries, Soerr'd at the prospect of his pigmy sail. And the slight...frail. The tender nautilus, who steers his prow, The sea-bom sailor of his shell canoe, The ocean Mab, the fairy of the sea, Ñ-ош far less fragile, and,... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - 1845 - 310 pages
...view'd their captain s fate with piteous eyes ; While others scofT'd his augurM miseries, Sneer'da the prospect of his pigmy sail, And the slight bark, so laden and so frail." CHRISTIAN had intended to send away his captain and associates in the cutter, and ordered that it should... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 pages
...And view'd their captain's fate with piteous eyes ; While others scofTd his augur'd miseries, Sneer'd John Mu , I more free. He, when the lightning-wlng'd tornados sweep The surge, Is safe — his port is in the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1847 - 390 pages
...view'd their .captain's fate with piteous eyesj While others scoff'd his augur'd miseries, Sneer'd at the prospect of his pigmy sail, And the slight bark so laden and so frail. Ci.trtot. THE ISLAND. 307 The tender nautilus, who steers his prow, The sea-born sailor of his shell... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1849 - 146 pages
...able to swim on the surface, or sink to the depths of the ocean at pleasure. The fragile Nautilus that steers his prow, The sea-born sailor of his shell canoe, The Ocean Mab, the fairy of the sea, O'er the blue waves at will to roam is free. He, when the lightning-winged tornadoes sweep The surf,... | |
 | 1855 - 494 pages
...striking in the movements of the nantilus, with its oars and sails and ink-bag, that — " Steers bis prow, The sea-born sailor of his shell canoe. The ocean Mab. the fairy of the sea, Steri» lar less fragile, and lar less free. Hs, when the lighluing-wh,R'd tonmdos sweep The surge,... | |
 | William Henry Smyth - 1851 - 458 pages
...the frail boat into which Captain Bligh was forced by the mutineers of the ill-fated Bounty :— " The tender nautilus, who steers his prow, The sea-born sailor of his shell-canoe, The ocean Mab, the fairy of the sea, Seems far less fragile, and, alas! more free ! He,... | |
 | Anna Atkins - 1853 - 330 pages
...danger is past he returns to the surface, bends his sails again, and once more rows gallantly along. The tender nautilus, who steers his prow, The sea-born...his shell canoe, The ocean Mab, the fairy of the sea — » * * * He, when the lightning- winged tornadoes sweep The surge, is safe — his port is in the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1856 - 833 pages
...view'd their captain's fate with piteous eyes j While others scoff'd his augur'd miseries, Sneer'd at the prospect of his pigmy sail, And the slight...sea, Seems far less fragile, and, alas! more free! 2 S 64 Ie, when the lightning-wing'd tornadoes sweep he surge, is safe—his port is in the deep—... | |
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The tender nautilus, who steers his prow, The sea-born sailor of his shell canoe, The ocean Mab, the fairy of the sea, Seems far less fragile, and, alas ! more frae. 
