 | Thomas Taylor - 1833 - 512 pages
...have regarded as bearing a close resemblance to his own case. ' Obscurest night involved the sky, The Atlantic billows roared, When such a destined wretch...hope, of all bereft, His floating home for ever left. No braver chief could Albion boast Than he with whom he went, Nor ever ship left Albion's coast With... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 620 pages
...a sea, Alone could rescue them ; Yet bitter felt it still to die Deserted, and his friends so nigh. He long survives who lives an hour In ocean, self-upheld...: And so long he, with unspent power, His destiny repell'd ; And ever as the minutes flew, Entreated help, or cried — " Adieu !" At length, his transient... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 460 pages
...OBSCUREST night involved the sky. The Atlantic billows roar'd, When such a destined wretch as I, Wash'd headlong from on board, Of friends, of hope, of all bereft, His floating home for ever left. No braver chief could Albion boast Than he with whom he went, Nor ever ship left Albion's coast With... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 448 pages
...Obscurest night involv'd the sky ; Th' Atlantic billows roar'd, When such a destin'd wretch as I, Wash'd headlong from on board, Of friends, of hope, of all bereft, His floating home for ever left. No braver chief could Albion boast Than he with whom he went, Nor ever ship left Albion's coast, With... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 464 pages
...OBSCUREST night involved the sky, The Atlantic billows roar'd, When such a destined wretch as I, Wash'd headlong from on board, Of friends, of hope, of all bereft, His floating home for ever left. No braver chief could Albion boast Than he with whom he went, Nor ever ship left Albion's coast With... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 446 pages
...a sea, Alone could rescue them; Yet bitter felt it still to die Deserted, and his friends so nigh. He long survives, who lives an hour In ocean, self-upheld: And so long he, with unspent pow'r, His destiny repell'd : And ever, as the minutes flew, Entreated help, or cry'd — "Adieu!"... | |
 | Religion - 1835 - 440 pages
...appears to have regarded as an illustration of his own case :— " Obscurest night Involved the sky. The Atlantic billows roared, When such a destined wretch as I, Washed headlong from on board, Or friends, of hope, of all bereft, Ilia floating home for ever left. He long survives who lives an... | |
 | William Cowper - 1837 - 420 pages
...a sea, Alone could rescue them ; Yet bitter felt it still to die Deserted, and his friends so nigh. He long survives, who lives an hour In ocean, self-upheld...; And so long he, with unspent power, His destiny repell'd ; And ever as the minutes flew, Entreated help, or cried — " Adieu !" At length, his transient... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 358 pages
...OBSCUREST night involved the sky ; The' Atlantic billows roar'd, When such a destin'd wretch as I, Wash'd headlong from on board, Of friends, of hope, of all bereft, His floating home for ever left. No braver chief could Albion boast, Than he, with whom he went, Nor ever ship left Albion's coast,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 378 pages
...OBSCUREST night involved the sky ; The' Atlantic hillows roar'd, When such a destin'd wretch as I, Wash'd headlong from on board, Of friends, of hope, of all bereft, His floating home for ever left. No braver chief could Albion boast, Than he, with whom he went, Nor ever ship left Albion's coast,... | |
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OBSCUREST night involved the sky, The Atlantic billows roared, When such a destined wretch as I, Washed headlong from on board, Of friends, of hope, of all bereft, His floating home for ever left. No braver chief could Albion boast Than he with whom he... 
