 | Advanced reading book - 1860 - 458 sider
...SHIPWRECK. — (Don Juan.) THEN rose from sea to sky the wild farewell — Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave — Then some leap'd overboard...enemy, And strives to strangle him before he die. And first one universal shriek there rush'd, Louder than the loud ocean, like a crash Of echoing thunder... | |
 | James Alexander McMullen - 1860 - 170 sider
...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... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1861 - 734 sider
...rose from sea to sky the wild farewell — Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave,Then some leap'd overboard with dreadful yell, As eager...enemy, And strives to strangle him before he die. And first one universal shriek there rush'd, Loader than the loud ocean, like a crash Of echoing thunder... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 sider
...rose from sea to sky the wild farewell — Then shrieked the timid, and stood still the brave,Then some leap'd overboard with dreadful yell, As eager...enemy, And strives to strangle him before he die. And first one universal shriek there rush'd, Louder than the loud ocean, like a crash Of echoing thunder... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1862 - 804 sider
...other. It is a war for independence on the one side, and for vengeance on the other — the vengeance of "one who grapples with his enemy and strives to strangle him before he dies." The wreaking of this vengeance is the uppermost thought of ninety out of every hundred in the... | |
 | Selections - 1863 - 192 sider
...sea ! Byron . THEN rose from-sea,-to-sky the wild farewell , Then shriek 'd the timid and stood-still the brave , — Then some leap'd overboard with dreadful...sea yawn'd around her like a hell , — And down she suck'd-with-her the whirling wave , Like one who grapples with his enemy And strives to strangle him... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 sider
...a Shepherd.) SKA. — Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell — Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave, Then some leap'd overboard...eager to anticipate their grave; And the sea yawn'd aronnd her like a hell, And down she suck'd with her the whirling wave, Like one who grapples with... | |
 | James Stuart Laurie - 1863 - 328 sider
...Been their familiar, and now Death was here. * * * * Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell— Then some leap'd overboard with dreadful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave; Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave ; And the sea yawn'd around her like a hell, Like... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 sider
...foremost — sunk, in short. Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewellThen shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave, — , Then some leap'd overboard...enemy, And strives to strangle him before he die. And first one universal shriek there rush'd, Louder than the loud ocean, like a crash Of echoing thunder... | |
 | James Logie Robertson - 1894 - 388 sider
...Ibid., canto iv. 179. " Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell — Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave — Then some leap'd overboard...enemy, And strives to strangle him before he die. And first one universal shriek there rush'd, Louder than the loud ocean, like a crash Of echoing thunder... | |
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And down she suck'd with her the whirling wave, Like one who grapples with his enemy, And strives to strangle him before he die. 
