 | American periodicals - 1832 - 598 pages
...part! — Out on our life, could we not make A spiritual temple of the heart! TOM CRINGLE'S LOG.s — ' For I am as a weed, Flung from the rock, on ocean's foam to sail, Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempcst's breath prevail.' Third Canto if Ckilde Harold. We bad to beat up for three days before we... | |
 | 1831 - 412 pages
...of Europe would portend a storm, must in some measure be left to seek its own harbour; it is (f Like a weed Flung from the rock on Ocean's foam to sail. Where'er the surge may sweep, Che tempest's breath prevail." From what I have said, it is not to be inferred, that I would advise... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1832 - 488 pages
...beneath me as a steed That knows his rider. Welcome to their roar ! Swift be their guidance, wheresoe'er it lead ! Though the strain'd mast should quiver as...the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail. in. In my youth's summer I did sing of one, The wandering outlaw of his own dark mind ; Again I seize... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1832 - 488 pages
...rider. Welcome to their roar ! Swift be then- guidance, wheresoe'er it lead ! Though the strain' d mast should quiver as a reed, And the rent canvas...the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail. III. In my youth's summer I did sing of one, The wandering outlaw of his own dark mind ; Again I seize... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1832 - 358 pages
...currents, and other causes, do not interfere. All are familiar with the sight of the floating sea-weed " Flung from the rock on ocean's foam to sail, Where'er...the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail." Remarkable accumulations of drift weed occur on each side of the equator in the Atlantic, Pacific,... | |
 | Michael Scott - English fiction - 1833 - 254 pages
...other pleasant matters, well worthy of being recorded, how Thomas communed with his two Consciences. -" For I am as a weed, Flung from the rock, on ocean's...the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail." Third Canto ofChilde Harold. WE had to beat up for three days before we could weather the east end... | |
 | Michael Scott - Cuba - 1833 - 400 pages
...LIBRARY The gift of Miss Emma E I. Dunston TOM CRINGLE'S LOG. ** I am as a wood, Flung from the rork on ocean's foam to sail, Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail." CHILDE HAROI.n. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, EDINBURGH ; AND T. CADELL, STRAND, LONDON.... | |
 | Henry Marie Brackenridge - History - 1834 - 256 pages
...gave him a sound drubbing, a new suit of clothes and a purse of money, and then turned him adrift, • As a weed, Flung from the rock, on ocean's foam to...the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail. I never saw Joe but once afterwards. He had been a constable in some new settlement. If there had been... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1835 - 472 pages
...currents, and other causes, do not interfere. All are familiar with the sight of the floating sea-weed, " Flung from the rock on ocean's foam to sail, Where'er...the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail." Remarkable accumulations of that species of seaweed generally known as gulf-weed, or sargasso, occur... | |
 | Michael Scott - 1834 - 702 pages
...1 1 'ff ltf PRINTED BY CAS1M1R, 12, RUE DK LA VIEILLB-MONNAIE. LOG. 14 1 am as a weed, Flung £rom the rock on ocean's foam to sail, Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail." CHILDE HAROLD. PARIS, BAUDRY'S EUROPEAN LIBRARY, RUB DU COQ , NE1H THE LOUVRE. SOLD ALSO BY AHYOT,... | |
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Once more upon the waters! yet once more! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider. Welcome, to their roar! Swift be their guidance, wheresoe'er it lead ! Though the... 
