 Miserable they ! Who, here entangled in the gathering ice, Take their last look of the descending sun ; While, full of death, and fierce with tenfold frost, The long long night, incumbent o'er their heads, Falls horrible.  The Saturday Magazine - Page 1981841Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...and vohi Of every life, that from the dreary months Flies conscious southward. Miserable they, Wlio, here entangled in the gathering ice, Take their last...night, incumbent o'er their heads, Falls horrible. Surh was the Britou's ' fate, As witlr/f/vf prow, (what have not Britons dar'd!) He for the passage... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...life, that from the dreary months Flics conscious southward. Miserable they. Who, here cni.ineli;d in the gathering ice, Take their last look of the descending Sun ; While, full of d<-.ith, niuV fierce with tenfold froa, The lone long uitrht, incumbent o'ir ttieir heads, Falls horrible.... | |
 | David Peter Davies - Derbyshire (England) - 1811 - 758 pages
...Camden, p. 4S2. lancholy fate is thus delineated by Thomson, in bis Seasons: " Miserable they! Who, heir entangled in the gathering ice, Take their last look...BRITON'S fate; As with first prow, (what have not Briton's dar'd !) He for the passage sought, attempted since So much in vain, and seeming to be shut... | |
 | James Thomson - 1811 - 182 pages
...void Of every life, that from the dreary months * The other hemisphere. Flies conscions sonthward. Miserable they 'Who, here entangled in the gathering ice, Take their last look of the descending snn ; "While, fnll of death, and fierce with tenfold frost, The long long night, incnmbent o'er their... | |
 | Archibald Alison - Aesthetics - 1812 - 444 pages
...rocks, cheerless, and void Of every life, that from the dreary months Flics, conscious, southward. Miserable they! Who, here entangled in the gathering...night, incumbent o'er their heads Falls horrible. In the following masterly description of a very sublime scene in nature, by Mr. Whately, I doubt not... | |
 | Archibald Alison - Aesthetics - 1812 - 442 pages
...rocks, cheerless, and void Of every life, that from the dreary months Flies, conscious, southward. Miserable they ! Who, here entangled in the gathering...night, incumbent o'er their heads Falls horrible. In the following masterly description of a very sublime scene in nature, by Mr. Whately, I doubt not... | |
 | James Thomson, Samuel Johnson - 1813 - 180 pages
...wavy rocks, cheerless, and voifl Of every life, that from the dreary months Flies conscious southward. Miserable they ! , Who, here entangled in the gathering...incumbent o'er their heads, Falls horrible. Such was the Briten'st fate, As with first prow, (what have not Britons dared !) He for the passage sought, attempted... | |
 | James Thomson - 1813 - 346 pages
...cheerless, and void Of every life, that from the dreary months Flies conscious southward. Miserable they 920 Who, here entangled in the gathering ice, Take their...heads, Falls horrible. Such was the BRITON'S fate, 925 As with first prow, (what have not BRITON'S dar'd!) He for the passage sought, attempted since... | |
 | Francis Charles Laird - Nottinghamshire (England) - 1813 - 440 pages
...Lapland. To this unhappy event, Thomson alludes in his " Winter :"— -Miserable they ! Wlio, licrc entangled in the gathering ice, Take their last look...frost, The long long night, incumbent o'er their heads, K.ills horrible. Such was the Briton's fate, A^ with first prow, (what have not Kritoin dar'd !) He... | |
 | John Britton, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1813 - 734 pages
...his •• Winter :" — t " Miserable they ! Who, here entangled in llie gathering ice, i'ul.r thcir last look of the descending sun ; While, full of death,...frost. The long long night, incumbent o'er their heads, Kails horrible. Such was tlie Briton's fate, A- with first prow, (what have not Britons dar'd !) lie... | |
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