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The works of ... lord Byron - Page 149
by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1821
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A Complete Dictionary of Poetical Quotations: Comprising the Most Excellent ...

Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 612 pages
...eave, With just enough of life to feel its pain, And deem that it wat oav'd, perhaps in vain. Byron. Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell, Then...some leap'd overboard with dreadful yell, As eager to antieipate their grave ; And the sea yawn'd around her like a hell, And down she suek'd with her the...
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A Complete Dictionary of Poetical Quotations: Comprising the Most Excellent ...

Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 610 pages
...eave, Wsth just enough of life to feel its pain, And deem that it was sav'd, perhaps in vain. Byron. Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell, Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the bra те, Then some leap'd overboard with dreadful yell, As eager to antieipate their grave ; And the...
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Transactions ..., Volumes 4-5

Literary and Historical Society of Quebec - 1855 - 574 pages
...sea to sky the wild farewell. Then shrieked the timid, and stood still the brave, Then some leaped overboard with dreadful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave; And the sea yawned around her like a hell. And down she sucked with her the whirling wave, Like one who grapples...
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The Book of Oratory: A New Collection of Extracts in Prose, Poetry and ...

1856 - 518 pages
...sky the wild farewell — Then shrieked the timid, and stood still the brave ; — Then some leaped overboard with dreadful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave ; And the sea yawned around her like a hell, And down she sucked with her the whirling wave, Like one who grapples...
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Select specimens of English poetry

Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...the wild farewell Then shrieked the timid, and stood still the hrave,1 — Then some leaped overhoard with dreadful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave ;* And the sea yawned around her3 like a hell, And down she sucked with her the whirling wave, Like one who grapples...
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Polyglot Reader, and Guide for Translation: Consisting of a Series of ...

Jean Roemer - 1857 - 332 pages
...crews ; She gave a heel, and then a lurch to port, And going down head-foremost — sunk, in short. Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell ! Then...the sea yawn'd around her like a hell. And down she sucked with her the whirling wave, Like one who grapples with his enemy, And strives to strangle him...
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English Literature of the Nineteenth Century: On the Plan of the Author's ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1857 - 800 pages
...the wild farewell ! Then shrick'd the timid, and stood still the hrave ; Then some leap'd overhoard with dreadful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave...a hell, And down she suck'd with her the whirling wave, Like one who grapples with his enemy, And strives to strangle him hefore he dic. And first one...
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Don Juan, with notes. Complete ed

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1857 - 450 pages
...And, going down head-foremost — sunk, in shortLII. Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell— 62 Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave — Then some leap'd over board with dreadful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave ; And the sea yawn'd around her like...
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Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and ...

Abraham Hayward - 1874 - 434 pages
...was about to pass crashing over them ? ' Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell ; Then shrieked the timid, and stood still the brave ; Then some leap'd...anticipate their grave ! And the sea yawn'd around them like a helL* The military organization of the invading army was beyond all praise: an order emanating...
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The Home Affections Pourtrayed by the Poets

Charles Mackay - 1858 - 426 pages
...crews ; She gave a hoel, and then a lurch to port, And, going down head foremost — sunk, in short. Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell — Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the bravc,Thcn some leap'd overboard with dreadful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave ; And the sea...
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