... of it. Lengthen it into hatchet-like edge of iron, strengthen it with complex tracery of ribs of oak, carve it and gild it till a column of light moves beneath it on the sea, you have made no more of it than it was at first. That rude simplicity of... The Mariner's Mirror - Page 216edited by - 1927Full view - About this book
| 1895 - 1102 pages
...no more of it than it was at first. That rude simplicity of bent plank, that [? should be ' which '] can breast its way through the death that is in the...shipping. Beyond this, we may have more work, more men, more money ; we cannot have more miracle. The whole passage is loaded with imagery, with fancy,... | |
| Peter H. Spectre - 2005 - 308 pages
...was at first. That rude simplicity of boat plank, that can breast its way through the death that is the deep sea, has in it the soul of shipping. Beyond this, we may have more work, more men, more money; we cannot have more miracle. It is undeniable that the beauty of a yacht depends more... | |
| 1895 - 1140 pages
...no more of it than it was at first. That rude simplicity of bent plank, that [? should be ' which '] can breast its way through the death that is in the...shipping. Beyond this, we may have more work, more men, more money ; we cannot have more miracle. The whole passage is loaded with imagery, with fancy,... | |
| American Society for the Extension of University Teaching - 1903 - 304 pages
...than the passage on the common sea-boat in Harbours of England (1856). "That rude simplicity of the bent plank that can breast its way through the death that is in the deep sea, has in it the 13 soul of shipping." . . . The sea piece that follows, "To war with that living fury of waters" ...... | |
| Albert Shaw - 1895 - 684 pages
...column of light moves beneath it on the sea, — you have made no more of it than it was at first. That rude simplicity of bent plank, that can breast its way through the death that is in thu deep sea, has in it the soul of shipping. Beyond this, we may have more work, more men, more money;... | |
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