... teak timbers, (she was built in India), creak again ; their aspect and their motion, all struck me as something far more " poetical" than the mere broad, brawling, shipless sea, and the sullen winds, could possibly have been without them. The Life, Writings, Opinions, and Times of the Right Hon. George Gordon Noel ... - Page 71825 - 431 pagesFull view - About this book
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1886 - 376 pages
...contending with the giant element, which made our stout forty-four's teak timbers (she was built in India) creak again ; their aspect and their motion, all struck...sullen winds, could possibly have been without them. The Euxine is a noble sea to look upon, and the port of Constantinople the most beautiful of harbours... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1896 - 692 pages
...cotton), skimming along as quickly, but less safely than the sea-mews which hovered over them; .... their aspect and their motion, all struck me as something...far .more 'poetical' than the mere broad, brawling, shialess sea, and the sullen winds, could possibly have been without them." An der vorliegenden Stelle... | |
| Ernest Rhys - 1897 - 284 pages
...contending with the giant elements which made our stout forty-four's teak timbers (she was built in India) creak again ; their aspect and their motion, all struck...sullen winds, could possibly have been without them. The Euxine is a noble sea to look upon, and the port of Constantinople the most beautiful of harbours,... | |
| Rudolf Kahn - 1910 - 144 pages
...their littleness, as contending with the giant element, which made our stout forty-four's teak timbers creak again; their aspect and their motion, all struck...sullen winds, could possibly have been without them." So sei der Pontus Euxinus gewiss ein schönes Meer und der Hafen von Konstantinopel einer der prächtigsten,... | |
| Reinard Willem Zandvoort - 1924 - 494 pages
...in the distance, their crowded succession, their littleness, as contending with the giant element; their aspect and their motion, all struck me as something...sullen winds, could possibly have been without them. The Euxine is a noble sea to look upon, and the port of Constantinople the most beautiful of harbours:... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1921 - 458 pages
...forty-four's teak timbers (she was built in India) creak again; their aspect and their motion,—all struck me as something far more "poetical" than the...sullen winds, could possibly have been without them. The Euxine is a noble sea to look upon, and the port of Constantinople the most beautiful of harbors,... | |
| Jacob Johan van Rennes - 1927 - 186 pages
...contending with the giant element, which made our stout forty-four's teak timbers (she was built in India) creak again; their aspect and their motion, all struck...sullen winds, could possibly have been without them." This is a beautiful picture indeed; but the extraordinary circumstance is, that if I could have painted... | |
| Jacob Johan van Rennes - 1927 - 194 pages
...contending with the giant element, which made our stout forty-four's teak timbers (she was built in India) creak again; their aspect and their motion, all struck...sullen winds, could possibly have been without them." This is a beautiful picture indeed; but the extraordinary circumstance is, that if I could have painted... | |
| William Lisle Bowles - 1819 - 240 pages
...contending with the giant element, which made our stout forty-four's teak timbers (she was built in India) creak again; their aspect and their motion, all struck...the sullen winds, could possibly have been without thorn." This is a beautiful picture indeed 5 but the extraordinary circumstance is, that if I could... | |
| George Wilson Knight - 2002 - 416 pages
...contending with the giant element, which made our stout 44*5 teak timbers (she was built in India) creak again; their aspect and their motion, all struck...sullen winds, could possibly have been without them. (LJ, v, App. iii, 544) This passage, in all its ease of technological and imaginative reporting, might... | |
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