 | 1889 - 322 pagine
...wind, And sanguine streamers seem the flood to fire ; The weaver, charmed with what his loom designed, Goes on to sea and knows not to retire. With roomy...laves, Deep in her draught, and warlike in her length, She seems a sea-wasp flying on the waves. This martial present piously designed, The loyal city give... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1890 - 626 pagine
...shadow rides in floating gold. Her flag aloft spread ruffling in the wind, And sanguine streamers seem'd the flood to fire : The weaver, charm'd with what...design'd, Goes on to sea, and knows not to retire. 1 " The old ship the ' London,' one of the many of the Commonwealth, had been destroyed by fire, and... | |
 | John Dryden - 1891 - 328 pagine
...rides in floating gold. Her flag aloft spread ruffling to the wind, to And sanguine streamers seem the flood to fire: The weaver charm'd with what his...Whose low-laid mouths each mounting billow laves: 610 Deep in her draught, and warlike in her length, She seems a sea-wasp flying on the waves. This... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - 1890 - 412 pagine
...degenerate days. Then, indeed, should we once more see Old Ironsides as fancy paints her : — •• With roomy deck.s, her guns of mighty strength, Whose low-laid mouths each mountain billow hives, Deep in her draught, and warlike in her length, She seemed a sea-wa.sp flying... | |
 | John Dryden - 1893 - 384 pagine
...fire; The weaver, charmed with what his loom designed, Goes on to sea and knows not to retire. '53 With roomy decks, her guns of mighty strength, Whose...laves, Deep in her draught and warlike in her length, She seems a sea wasp flying on the waves. 154 This martial present, piously designed, The loyal City... | |
 | John Dryden, William Dougal Christie - 1893 - 780 pagine
...tar, used for winding round ropes and cables to prevent their being fretted-by the blocks. 'S3 Witli roomy decks, her guns of mighty strength, Whose low-laid...-. Deep in her draught and warlike in her length, She seems a sea-wasp flying on the waves. -rv &-+ ';£ **•• **" 154 This martial present, piously... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1896 - 474 pagine
...shadow rides in floating gold. Her flag aloft spread ruffling in the wind, And sanguine streamers seem'd the flood to fire: The weaver, charm'd with what his...laves, Deep in her draught, and warlike in her length, She seems a sea-wasp flying on the waves." ' What a wonderful pother is here, to make all these poetical... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1899 - 420 pagine
...movement of his fancy is seen in such as this, so closely criticised both by Johnson and Scott— " With roomy decks, her guns of mighty strength, Whose...laves, Deep in her draught, and warlike in her length, She seems a sea-wasp flying on the waves," while the perilous agility of Donne's wit is felt in the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 760 pagine
...with tar, used for winding round ropes and cables to prevent their being fretted by the blocks. "S3 With roomy decks, her guns of mighty strength, Whose...laves, Deep in her draught and warlike in her length, She seems a sea-wasp flying on the waves. '54 This martial present, piously designed, The loyal City... | |
 | John Dryden - 1904 - 762 pagine
...with tar, used for winding round ropes and cables to prevent their being fretted by the blocks. «S3 With roomy decks, her guns of mighty strength, Whose...laves, Deep in her draught and warlike in her length, She seems a sea-wasp flying on the waves. This martial present, piously designed, The loyal City give... | |
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the flood to fire: The weaver, charm'd with what his loom design'd, Goes on to sea, and knows not to retire. With roomy decks, her guns of mighty strength, Whose low-laid mouths each mounting billow laves, Deep in her draught, and warlike in her length,... 
