 | John Philips - Cider - 1791 - 214 pages
...are carried up to the heavens and down again to the deep : their " foul melteth away becaufe of the trouble. " THEY REEL TO AND FRO, AND STAGGER LIKE A DRUNKEN " MAN: and are at their wits end." 231. ————— Meanwhile the loofen'd 'winds, Infuriate, molten rocks and flaming globes Hurl'd... | |
 | Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - English poetry - 1801 - 368 pages
...are carried up to the heaven, and down again to the deep : Their soul melteth away because of their trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, And arc at their wit's end. So when they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, He delivered! them out of... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 314 pages
...which lifteth up the waters thereof. They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths, their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel...fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end. Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 408 pages
...thereof: they mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths, their soul is melted because oi' trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits end. Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. He maketh... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...which lifteth up the waters thereof. They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths, their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel...stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits end. Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. He maketh... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 506 pages
...lifteth up the waves 26 thereof. They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to 27 the depths : their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel...fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their 28 wit's end. Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and 29 he bringeth them out of their distresses.... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1805 - 430 pages
...a passage in the Psalms, from whence one must be almost certain he must .have borrowed this image " They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end." Psalm 107; verse 27. Here, not only the simile is the same, and the expression almost so... | |
 | Episcopal Church - 1808 - 634 pages
...up tc the heaven, and down again to the deep ; their soul melteth «way because of the trouble. 27 They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end. 28 So when they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, he delivereth them out of their distress.... | |
 | 1808 - 306 pages
...mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths, their soul is melted hecanse of trouhle. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at Iheir wit's end. Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouhle, and he hringeih them out of their distresses.... | |
 | Bible - 1809 - 556 pages
...bottom of the sea; to the great astonishment of the passengers, who are ready to die with fear. Ver. 27. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at tleir uits end.~\ For they are so tossed and whirled about, tint as they are not able to stand upon... | |
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They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end. 
