 | Benjamin Ifor Evans - 2006 - 520 pages
...water, every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should...like a witch's oils, Burnt green, and blue and white. » (Sir Walter Scott, 1771-1832) ^W^M^te^ ° < (The Lay of the Last Minstrel, 1805) fflfe Border, 1802-03)... | |
 | Jonathan Feinstein - 2006 - 592 pages
...lines previous to the passage above is this one (Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Major Works, p. 53): Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy...a witch's oils, Burnt green, and blue, and white. The last line, with its vivid colors, calls to mind the passage from Captain Cook quoted above; the... | |
 | Francesco Orlando - 2008 - 520 pages
...water, every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where, And not a drop to drink. The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should...Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea.596 In Mickiewicz's Pan Tadeusz, "the deep abysses of the Lithuanian forests" have not yet been... | |
 | Rob Hewitt - 2007 - 164 pages
...find his wallet in his wetsuit. CHAPTER FIVE The Third Night and Fourth Day - Out of the Whirlpool The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should...like a witch's oils, Burnt green, and blue and white. FROM THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, 1798 ROB THRASHED AROUND IN THE DARK... | |
 | Sally West - 2007 - 222 pages
...simile. In the drought and despair of his ship's initial becalming, the Mariner laments: The very deeps did rot: O Christ! That ever this should be! Yea,...slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy Sea. 'The Ancient Mariner' ( 1 19-22) 57 MYR, vol. 4, p. 3. Shelley's image may derive from Coleridge's... | |
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