| 1827 - 798 páginas
...handy-work. " With scarce Inferior lustre gleam'd the sea* Whose waves were spangled with pliosphurir tire, As though the lightnings there had spent their shafts, And left the fragments glittering on the field. *' Ne*t mom. in mockery of a storm* the breew And waters «kinni«h't! ; bubble-armies fought Millions... | |
| James Montgomery - 1827 - 198 páginas
...the glory of the Lord, The firmament display'd his handy-work. With scarce inferior lustre gleam'd the sea, Whose waves were spangled with phosphoric...shafts, And left the fragments glittering on the field. Next morn, in mockery of a storm, the breeze And waters skirmish'd ; bubble-armies fought Millions... | |
| 1827 - 808 páginas
...the glory of the Lord, The firmament displayM 1m handy-work. " With scarce inferior lustre gleam'd the sea, Whose waves were spangled with phosphoric...their shafts, And left the fragments glittering on tho field. ** Next morn, in mockery of a storm, the breeze And waters skirmish'tl ; bubble-armies fought... | |
| William Ellis - 1829 - 574 páginas
...day. The light fleecy clouds that passed over the surface of the sky, fringed with the moon's silver light, gave a pleasing animation to the scene, and...heard the hoarse roaring of the surf, as it broke in foam upon the coral reef surrounding the shore. To us this was a most welcome sound, indicating... | |
| Robert Smith - 1829 - 432 páginas
...tempest— With scarce inferior lustre gleam'd the sea, Whose waves were spangled with phosphoric fir?, As though the lightnings there had spent their shafts, And left the fragments glittering in the field, The annexed metaphor is bold and forcibleTo trace The Nile of thinking to a secret source,... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 516 páginas
...glory of the Lord, The firmament display'd his handy-work. With scarce inferior lustre gleam'd the ees. Whose waves were spangled with phosphoric fire. As...their shafts. And left the fragments glittering on Ihe field. Next morn, in mocker}' of a storm, the breeze And waters skirmish'd ; bubble-armies fought... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 514 páginas
...scarce inferior lustre gleam'd the «ea. Whose waves were spangled with phosphoric fire, As though tho lightnings there had spent their shafts. And left the fragments glittering on the field. Next morn, in mockery of a storm, the breeze And waters skimush'd ; bubble-armies fought Millions of... | |
| 1836 - 514 páginas
...the glory of the Lord, The firmament display'd his handy-work. Wilh scarce inferior lustre gleam'd the sea, Whose waves were spangled with phosphoric...lightnings there had spent their shafts. And left the fragmente glittering on the field. Next morn, in mockery of a storm, the breeze And waters skirmish'd... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1839 - 510 páginas
...the glory of the Lord, The firmament display'd his handy-work. With scarce inferior lustre gleam'd the sea. Whose waves were spangled with phosphoric...shafts And left the fragments glittering on the field. Next mom, in mocker)- of a storm, the breeze And waters skirmtsh'd ; bubble-armies fought Millions... | |
| 1830 - 596 páginas
...sit down and cavil with the opinion of the poet who describes the luminous nature of the sea to be " As though the lightnings there had spent their shafts, And left the fragments glittering on the field." It is equally unprofitable to take notice of the other theories, they are all vague and unsatisfactory,... | |
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