 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
 | 1818 - 628 pages
...announced the speedy closing in of the polar night They were now in the situation described by the poet. " Miserable they, Who, here entangled in the gathering...their last look of the descending sun, While full of fate, and fierce with tenfold frost, The long, long night, descending o'er their heads, Falls horrible.... | |
 | English literature - 1818 - 638 pages
...announced the speedy closing in of the polar night. They were now in the situation described by the poet " Miserable they, Who, here entangled in the gathering...their last look of the descending sun, While full of fate, and fierce with tenfold frost, The long, long night, descending o'er their heads, Falls horrible.... | |
 | 1820 - 224 pages
...that Sir Hugh Willoughby, an enterprising English natigator, perished with all hi* crew, in 1553. • Miserable they, Who, here entangled in the gathering...the Briton's fate, As with first prow (what have not Britons dared ?) He for the passage sought, attempted since So much in vain, and seeming to be shut... | |
 | Biography - 1820 - 230 pages
...Willoughby, an enterprising English navigator, perished with all hi» crew, in 1553. ^— fyliserable they, Who, here entangled in the gathering ice, Take...the Briton's fate, As with first prow (what have not Britons dared r) He for the passage sought, attempted since So much in vain, and seeming to he shut... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...wavy rocks, cheerless, and void Of every life, that from the dreary months Flies conscious southward. join'd, Throttled at length in the air, expir'd and...pride, Fell whence he stood to see his victor fall : firs* prow (what have not Britons dar'ci!; He for tnc passage sought, attempted since So much in vain,... | |
 | Maria Hack - Adventure and adventurers - 1820 - 226 pages
...Arzina, in Lapland, where he and his companions really took " Their last look of the descending *un— While full of death, and fierce with tenfold frost,...The long, long night, incumbent o'er their heads, Fell horrible." LUCY. How could that ever be known, if the people were all frozen ? MRS. B. Their bodies... | |
 | James Thomson - 1822 - 174 pages
...wavy rocks, cheerless, and void Of every life, that from the dreary months Flies conscious southward. Miserable they ! Who, here entangled in the gathering...Briton's* fate, As with first prow (what have not Britons dared :) He for the passage sought, attempted since So much in vain, atid seeming to be shut... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 278 pages
...wavy rocks, cheerless, and void Of every life, that from the dreary months Flies conscious southward. Miserable they! Who, here entangled in the gathering...their heads, Falls horrible. Such was the Briton's '4 fate, As with first prow (what have not Britons dared !) He for the passage sought, attempted since... | |
 | Compendium - 1822 - 342 pages
...of black stupendous precipices ; and, in others, lofty eminences covered with snow. SPITSBERGEN. " Miserable they, Who, here entangled in the gathering ice, Take their last look of the departing sun ; While, full of death, and fierce with tenfold frost, The long long night, incumbent... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1823 - 400 pages
...wavy rocks, cheerless, and void Of every life, that from the dreary months Flies conscious southward. Miserable they, Who here, entangled in the gathering...look of the descending sun ; While full of death, and tierce with tenfold frost. The long, long night incumbent o'er their heads, Falls horrible ! Such was... | |
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