| 1818 - 638 pages
...who saves himself by swimming. He reaches the shore, after having despaired of escape, and when at And as a man with difficult short breath Forespent...Turns to the perilous wide waste, and stands. At gaze. (Cary't transmit.) the very last gasp. The words ' fuor del pelago ' present the man to our imagination... | |
| William Henry Curran - 1819 - 562 pages
...come quei che con lena affunata, Uscito del pelago alia riva, Si volge all' acqua perigliosa, e guata, (And, as a man with difficult short breath, Forespent...Turns to the perilous wide waste, and stands At gaze. Cory's Translation.) A distinguished Italian writer, now in England, commenting upon this passage in... | |
| 1842 - 622 pages
...felicitous illustration, the several stages, longer or shorter, of the progress of his work : — " And as a man, with difficult short breath, Forespent...waste, and stands At gaze ; e'en so my spirit, that yet fail'd, Struggling with terror, turn'd to view the straits That none hath pass'd and lived." But this... | |
| Dante Alighieri - 1822
...so pitifully pass'd : CO And as a man, with diffieult short breath, Forespent with toiling, 'seap'd from sea to shore, Turns} to the perilous wide waste, and stands At gaze ; e'en so my spirit, that yet fail'd, Struggling with terror, turn'd to view the straits That none hath pass'd and liv'd. My weary... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - 1822 - 414 pages
...so pitifully pass'd : 20 And as a man, with diffieult short breath, Forespent with toiling, 'seap'd from sea to shore, Turns* to the perilous wide waste, and stands At gaze ; e'en so my spirit, that yet fkil'd, Struggling with terror, turn 'd to view the straits That none hath pass'd and liv\l. My weary... | |
| Robert Walsh - 1822 - 402 pages
...And as a man, with difficult short breath, Forespent with toiling1, 'scap'd from sea to shore, Turnst to the perilous wide waste, and stands At gaze ; e'en so my spirit, that yet fail'd, Struggling with terror, turn'd to view the straits That none hath pass'd and liv'd. My weary... | |
| Dante Alighieri - 1831 - 366 pages
...And as a man, with difficult short breath, Forespent with toiling, 'scap'd from sea to shore, Turns d to the perilous wide waste, and stands At gaze ; e'en so my spirit, that yet fail'd, Struggling with terror, turn'd to view the straits That none hath pass'd and liv'd. My weary... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1836 - 470 pages
...pelago alia lira Si volge all' acqua pcrigliosa, e guata. And as a man with difficult short hreath, Forespent with toiling, 'scaped from sea to shore,...Turns to the perilous wide waste., and stands At gaze. Did Mr. Gary wish us to think that the poor man was asthmatic before he got into the sea ? If not,... | |
| Dante Alighieri - 1844 - 606 pages
...respite to the fear, That in my heart's recesses2 deep had lain All of that night, so pitifully past : And as a man, with difficult short breath, Forespent with toiling, 'scaped from sea to shore, Turns3 to the perilous wide waste, and stands At gaze ; e'en so my spirit, that yet fail'd, Struggling... | |
| Anna Maria Hall - 838 pages
...respite to the fear That in my heart's recesses dcep had lain All of that night so pitifully past : And as a man with difficult short breath, Forespent...Turns to the perilous wide waste, and stands At gaze ; even so, my spirit, that yct fail'd, Struggling with terror, turn'd to view the straits That nonu... | |
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