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" All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. "
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2003 - 78 pages
...prayers fiends — evil spirits averred — declared, affirmed And the Albatross begins to be avenged. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath...a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink. The very...
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The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had

Susan Wise Bauer - 2003 - 444 pages
...and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath...a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. Water, water every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink. — From...
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Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before

Tony Horwitz - 2003 - 500 pages
...white foam flew, The furrow followed free; We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion: As idle as a painted ship, Upon a painted ocean. It was my turn to read. I'd brought excerpts from English diaries in which Cook's...
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The Shadow-line: A Confession

Joseph Conrad - 2003 - 200 pages
...motionless as a model ship . . . polished marble: cf. 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', 11. 115-18: 'Day after day, day after day, | We stuck, nor breath nor motion; | As idle as a painted ship | Upon a painted ocean.' 64 The watch finished washing decks: that is, the man on watch. 65 an extraordinary...
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Impossible Extinction: Natural Catastrophes and the Supremacy of the ...

Charles Cockell - 2003 - 212 pages
...crew observing, but for the most part powerless, to influence the course on which they are heading, Day after day, day after day. We stuck, nor breath nor motion-, As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean But in an instant; And now the storm-blast came, and he Was tyrannous and strong: He...
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Meter and Meaning: An Introduction to Rhythm in Poetry

Thomas Carper, Derek Attridge - 2003 - 184 pages
...at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon. Day after day; day after day, 5 We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink; 10 Water, water, every where Nor any drop to drink. 6....
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Survivors: True Tales of Endurance

John B. Letterman - 2003 - 472 pages
...side of the windless Doldrums, that dread area of calms and squalls which had inspired Coleridge's Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. I was a Master Mariner, I thought ruefully, not an ancient one, and could count on no ghostly crew...
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Insect Diets: Science and Technology

Allen Carson Cohen - 2003 - 343 pages
...16.7 Carbohydrate Lipid 4.1 17.2 38.0 9.1 5.3 The nature of water and what it means to insect diets "Water, water, everywhere, and all the boards did...Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink." — Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" Water is one of the great wonders of...
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From Words to Numbers: Narrative, Data, and Social Science

Roberto Franzosi - 2004 - 506 pages
...copper sky, / The bloody Sun, at noon, / Right up above the mast did stand, / No bigger than the Moon. / Day after day, day after day, / We stuck, nor breath...painted ship / Upon a painted ocean. / Water, water, every where, / And all the boards did shrink; / Water, water, every where, / Nor any drop to drink....
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Ghost Ships: A Surrealist Love Triangle

Robert McNab - 2004 - 288 pages
...collection. S/M 3668. The bloody sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the moon. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.395 Victor Segalen had also been impressed by the glowing disc of the moon floating...
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