 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 ページ
...who meet obey. The Corsair. Canto i. Stanza 1. O, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried. Ibid. She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife. Stanza 3. The power of Thought, — the magic of the Mind ! Stanza 8. The many... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1885 - 260 ページ
...the dark. Already doubled is the cape — our bay Receives that prow which proudly spurns the spray. How gloriously her gallant course she goes ! Her white...waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife. Who would not brave the battle-fire, the wreck, To move the monarch of her peopled... | |
 | 1885 - 630 ページ
...Paraphrase the following passage, and point out what images or metaphors are contained in it : — ' How gloriously her gallant course she goes ! Her white...walks the waters like a thing of life And seems to ciare the elements to strife. Who would not brave the battle fire, the wreck, To move the monarch of... | |
 | Arthur Nicols - 1887 - 336 ページ
...day to day, slipped through the water at eight knots an hour, reminding all of Byron's lines — " She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife." The ladies brought their work on deck. Harold read aloud and recited ; and even... | |
 | Richard Francis Quigley - 1891 - 488 ページ
...the dark. Already doubled is the cape— our bay Eeceives that prow which proudly spurns the spray. How gloriously her gallant course she goes ! Her white...waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife. A few other points in this letter I will notice later on. FOURTH LETTER. There... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1891 - 752 ページ
...[dark. Receives that prow which proudly spurns the spray. How gloriously her gallant course she goes I s poem was written in the Levant. The stanza of Spenser,...according to one of our most successful poets, admits of elements to strife. Who would not brave the battle-fire — the wreck — k To move the monarch of... | |
 | 1892 - 740 ページ
...few ships afloat to-day which would serve as a source of inspiration for the following lines : — " She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife. Who would not brave the battle-fire, the wreck, To move the monarch of her peopled... | |
 | Earl Thomas Brassey Brassey - 1894 - 272 ページ
...many gems. You remember he exclaims in ' The Corsair '— How glorious her gallant course she goes l Her white wings flying — never from her foes : She...waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife. Who would not brave the battle-fire — the wreck — To move the monarch of her... | |
 | Jean Jules Jusserand - 1894 - 320 ページ
...and there is frequent use of it in Byron : Our bay Receives that prow which proudly spurns the spray. How gloriously her gallant course she goes ! Her white wings flying — never from her foes. Or fallen too low to fear a further fall. Of flight from foes with whom I could not cope.2 Langland's... | |
 | Jean Jules Jusserand - 1895 - 594 ページ
...makes a frequent use of alliteration : Our bay Receives that prow which proudly spurns the spray ; How gloriously her gallant course she goes : Her white wings flying — never from her foes. (Corsair.) V The purely Germanic period of the literary history of / England lasted six hundred years,... | |
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How gloriously her gallant course she goes! Her white wings flying - never from her foes She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife. 
