 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
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1834 - 388 pages
...Miserable they AVho, here entangled in the gath'ring ice, Take their last look of the descending SUD! While, full of death, and fierce with tenfold frost, The long, long night, incumbent o'er their head, Falls horrible '. « Malheureux celui qui, embarrassé dans les « glaces croissantes, suit de... | |
 | Sir John Leslie, Robert Jameson, Hugh Murray - Arctic regions - 1836 - 588 pages
...them, can now only be matter of sad conjecture. Thomson thus pathe tically laments their fate : — Miserable they, Who, here entangled in the gathering...Falls horrible. Such was the Briton's fate, As with Jirst prow (what have not Britons dared ' ) He for the passage sought, attempted since So much in vain.... | |
 | James Thomson - 1836 - 200 pages
...tempest taken by the boundless frost,— . / A Is many a fathom to the bottom.cham'd, Who, here entangle Take their last look of the descending sun ; While,...full of death, and fierce with tenfold frost, "The other hemisphere. The long, long night, incumbent o'er their heads, 'alls horrible. Such was the Eriton's*... | |
 | James Thomson - 1836 - 164 pages
...cheerless and void Of every life, that from the dteary months Flies conscious southward. Miserahle they ! Who, here entangled in the gathering ice, Take their last look of the descending snn ; While, full of death, and fierce with tenfold frost, The long, long night, incumhent o'er their... | |
 | James Thomson - 1840 - 174 pages
...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 Britons dared !) He for the passage sought, attempted since So... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...wavy rocks, cheerless, and m Of every life, that from the dreary months Flies conscious southward. ach Had wondrous; as with stars, their liodies all...the wheeb Of beryl, and careering fires talwecn ; йтж The long long night, incumbent o'er their headi, Falls horrible. Such was the Briton's} fate.... | |
 | James Thomson - English poetry - 1842 - 384 pages
...and void Of every life, that from the dreary months Flies conscious southward. Miserable they ! 9 20 Who, here entangled in the gathering ice, Take their...Briton's fate," As with first prow (what have not Britons dar'd!) He for the passage sought, attempted since So much in vain, and seeming to be shut... | |
 | James Thomson - 1842 - 440 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...incumbent o'er their heads, Falls horrible. Such was the Briton'st fate As with first prow (what have not Britons dar'd?) He for the passage sought, attempted... | |
 | Elizabeth Caroline Grey - 1851 - 266 pages
...the " Colonial Magazine," with an Illustration and Maps. Foolscap 8vo. cloth, emblematically gilt. « Miserable they! Who here entangled in the gathering...night, incumbent o'er their heads, Falls horrible." COWFKB. UNIFORM EDITIONS OF LONGFELLOW'S PROSE AND POETICAL WORKS, Price Two Shillings each, cloth,... | |
 | William Holmes, John Warner Barber - Allegories - 1851 - 342 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...night, incumbent o'er their heads, Falls horrible."— Thompson. For J saith tAe Lord will be .... a wail of fire round about. THE PROTECTED TRAVELER. Zec-li.S... | |
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