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| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1857 - 432 pages
...may bo consulted.- They are very numerous, and there is no elimato or clement without one or more. And every tongue, through utter drought, Was withered...root ; We could not speak, no more than if We had been choked with soot. nataOnthelr Ah ! Wel1 ^^ ' WDat 6vil looks so™ distress, Had I from old and... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Poetry - 1857 - 126 pages
...Psellus, may be consulted. They are very numerous, and there is no climate or element without one or more. "And every tongue, through utter drought, Was withered...root ; We could not speak, no more than if We had been choked with soot. " Ah ! well a-day ! what evil looks Had I from old and young ! The shipmates,... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1857 - 540 pages
...had followed ug From the land of mist and snow. And every tongue through utter drought Was wither" d at the root ; We could not speak no more than if We had been choked with soot. Ah well-a-day ! what evil looks Had I from old and young ! Instead of the cross... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1858 - 792 pages
...Psellus? may be c mulled. They are very numerous, and there is no climate' or element without one or more. And every tongue, through utter drought, Was withered...root ; We could not speak, no more than if We had been choked with soot. Ah ! well a-day ! what evil looks Had I from old and young ! Instead of the... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1858 - 610 pages
...follow'd us From the land of mist and snow. 44 And every tongue, through utter drought, Was wither'd at the root ; We could not speak, no more than if We had been choked with soot. 41 Ah ! well a-day ! what evil looks Had I from old and young! Instead of the... | |
| Charles Anderson Dana - American poetry - 1859 - 838 pages
...throw the whole emit on the Ancient Mariner: la whereof they hang the dead •ea-blrd round bis neck. And every tongue, through utter drought, Was withered...root ; We could not speak, no more than if We had been choked with soot. Ah ! well a-day ! what evil looks Had I from old and young 1 Instead of the... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1861 - 448 pages
...Psellus, may be consulted. They are very numerous, and there is no climate or element without one or more. And every tongue, through utter drought, Was withered...root ; We could not speak, no more than if We had been choked with soot. Ah ! well a-day ! what evil looks 'rlle sh.'PHad I from old and young ! their... | |
| Coventry Patmore - Children's poetry - 1862 - 372 pages
...The death-fires danced at night; The water, like a witch's oils, Burnt green, and blue, and white. " And every tongue, through utter drought, Was withered...the root; We could not speak, no more than if We had been choked with soot. " Ah ! well-a-day ! what evil looks Had I from old and young ! Instead of the... | |
| Playtime - 1863 - 436 pages
...rout The death-fires danced at night ; The water, like a witch's oils, Burnt green and blue and white. And every tongue, through utter drought, Was withered...root ; We could not speak, no more than if We had been choked with soot. Ah ! well a-day ! what evil looks Had I from old and young ! Instead of the... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1863 - 314 pages
...death-fires danced at night; The water, like a witch's oils, Burned green, and blue, and white. 26. ' And every tongue, through utter drought, Was withered...the root; We could not speak, no more than if We had been choked with soot. 27. ' Ah, well-a-day ! what evil looks Had I from old and young! Instead of... | |
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