| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1857 - 432 pagina’s
...moved in tracks of shining white, And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich...saint took pity on me, And I blessed them unaware. selfsame moment I could pray, And from my neck so free The Albatross fell off, and sank Like lead into... | |
| 1919 - 1066 pagina’s
...rufulus, — olive and pink in color, is almost incomparably beautiful. One recalls Coleridge's lines: Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich...living things! no tongue Their beauty might declare. Were it not for the fact that snakes are wholesale and consistent cannibals, these creatures would... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1857 - 126 pagina’s
...moved in tracks of shining white, And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. "Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich...swam ; and every track Was a flash of golden fire. E Their btauty and "O happy living things! no tongue their Ьарршем. , . ., . . . 1 heir beauty... | |
| 1857 - 336 pagina’s
...floating in his sight ; and when from h ifar off, beblessing upon them, — ' nething in mist, and "0 happy living things! no tongue ğ Their beauty might...blessed them unaware. Sure my kind saint took pity on mo, And I blessed them unaware : " The selfsame moment I could pray !" The utterance of prayer brings... | |
| 1858 - 460 pagina’s
...moved in tracks of shining white, And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich...saint took pity on me, And I blessed them unaware. BT th of the inoĞa Be teliold•tn Uod'e creaiuiee of i •• .*=-. calm. Tbeir t,eaatr and iLctl... | |
| Henry Reed - 1860 - 322 pagina’s
...coveteousness. We gazed upon the savages as the Ancient Mariner did upon the bright water-snakes : — "A spring of love gushed from my heart, And I blessed...saint took pity on me, And I blessed them unaware." We have no ambitipn to be sentimentally conservative; but we do lament that the spirit of change is... | |
| George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1886 - 588 pagina’s
...calm, — "Oh, happy, living things! no tongue Their beauty might declare. A spring of love gashed in my heart, And I blessed them, unaware, Sure my kind...saint took pity on me, And I blessed them unaware," he enunciated an ethical truth which the age was far from comprehending — which he hardly comprehended... | |
| Henry Reed - 1860 - 312 pagina’s
...coveteousness. We gazed upon the savages as the Ancient Mariner did upon the bright water-snakes :— "A spring of love gushed from my heart, And I blessed them unaware ; Sure my kind saint took pity on me,And I blessed them unaware." We have no ambition to be sentimentally conservative; but we do lament... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1861 - 448 pagina’s
...tracks of shining white, cairf.re"" And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich...swam ; and every track Was a flash of golden fire. Their beau- Q happy living things ! no tongue ty and their _ .riv ° happiness. Their 'beauty might... | |
| Ellen Luscombe - 1861 - 184 pagina’s
...reminded us of that beautiful passage in the Ancient Mariner so beloved by all marine naturalists — " Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich...They coiled and swam, and every track Was a flash of living fire. O happy living things ! no tongue This beauty might declare." So charming was the sight... | |
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