| Henry Shakespear - 1860 - 356 ページ
...imbued with it? That which others consider infatuation and a folly, is to him the breath of life : " That for itself can woo the approaching fight, And turn what some deem danger to delight ! " not the fight against our fellow-man and brother, but against the wild beasts of the forest, which... | |
| Henry Astbury Leveson - 1860 - 584 ページ
...numberless other glorious days ; for our soldiers, in the words of our greatest bard, — " Could for itself woo the approaching fight, And turn what some deem danger to delight." But, gentle reader, I crave your pardon for digressing, having wandered from my subject by musing upon... | |
| Henry Astbury Leveson - 1860 - 564 ページ
...numberless other glorious days ; for our soldiers, in the words of our greatest bard, — " Could for itself woo the approaching fight, And turn what some deem danger to delight." But, gentle reader, I crave your pardon for digressing, having wandered from my subject by musing upon... | |
| Charles Richard Weld - 1860 - 468 ページ
...fortune to offend his cousin Haco. Those were days, you will remember, when the sea-kings loved to " woo the approaching fight, And turn what some deem danger to delight." But indeed, in this case, there was no fighting, for Haco took a very summary way of settling his differences... | |
| Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1861 - 788 ページ
...the Scandinavian Earls of Orkney, descendants of those jarls, or sen kings, * Who for itself could woo the approaching fight, And turn what some deem danger to delight.' And, besides the beauty and interest of the ruins, the circumstance of the Earl's Palace being surrounded... | |
| Raphael Semmes - 1869 - 862 ページ
...wave; Not thou, vain lord of wantonness and ease, Whom slumber soothes not —pleasures cannot please; Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried,...play, That thrills the wanderer of that trackless way ? ********* Death! Come when it will— we snatch the life of life; When lost— what recks it —... | |
| Raphael Semmes - 1869 - 862 ページ
...Not thou, vain lord of wantonness and ease, Whom slumber soothes not — pleasures cannot please ; Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried,...play, That thrills the wanderer of that trackless way ? ********* Death! Come when it will — we snatch the life of life; When lost — what recks it —... | |
| ADMIRAL RAPHAEL SEMMES - 1869 - 850 ページ
...Not thou, vain lord of wantonness and ease, Whom slumber soothes not — pleasures cannot please ; Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried....play, That thrills the wanderer of that trackless way ? * * ,* * * * ' * * * Death ! Come when it will — we snatch the life of life; When lost — what... | |
| John T. Watson - 1869 - 524 ページ
...and survey our home ! BYRON s Corsair Oh ! who can tell, save he whose heart htm tneu, 'And danc'd in triumph o'er the waters wide, The exulting "sense...pulse's maddening play, That thrills the wanderer of the trackless way ! BYRON'S Corsair. The polish'd mirror of the lake, In which the deep reflected sky... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1870 - 768 ページ
...Not thou, vain lord of wantonness and case ! Whom slumber soothes not — pleasure cannot please — U hose green wild margin now no more erase An s works; nor must the delicate waters sleep, Prison'd dunger to delight ; That seeks what cravens shun with more than And where the feebler faint can only... | |
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