 Ours the wild life in tumult still to range From toil to rest, and joy in every change. Oh, who can tell? not thou, luxurious slave! Whose soul would sicken o'er the heaving wave; Not thou, vain lord of wantonness and ease!  The Spuytenduyvel Chronicle - Page 2161856 - 318 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | William Martin - 1838 - 368 pages
...soul would sicken o'er the heaving wave ; Not thou, vain lord of wantonness and ease ! Whom slumber soothes not, — pleasure cannot please, — Oh !...play, That thrills the wanderer of that trackless way? That for itself can woo the approaching fight, And turn what some deem danger to delight : That seeks... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1838 - 604 pages
...Whose soul would sicken o'er the heaving wave; Not thou. vain lord of wantonness and ease! Whom slumber soothes not — pleasure cannot please — Oh, who...play, That thrills the wanderer of that trackless way'I That for itself can woo the approaching fight, And turn what some deem danger to delight; That... | |
 | Francis Glasse - 1838 - 200 pages
...rogues, never doubt it ; the boy before you has been trainedin the way he will go."' CHAPTER XVII. " Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried,...play, That thrills the wanderer of that trackless way 1" " Have I once lived to see two honest men ?" THE Creole miss, my hostess, who in her short career... | |
 | John George Cochrane - 1838 - 508 pages
...the heaving wave ; Not thou, vain lord of wantonness and ease! Whom slumber soothes not—pleasure cannot please— Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart...danced in triumph o'er the waters wide, The exulting sense—the pulse's maddening play, That thrills the wanderer of that trackless way? That for itself... | |
 | 1838 - 506 pages
...the heaving wave ; Not thou, vain lord of wantonness and ease! Whom slumber soothes not—pleasure cannot please— Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart...danced in triumph o'er the waters wide, The exulting sense—the pulse's maddening play, That thrills the wanderer of that trackless way 1 That for itself... | |
 | 1838 - 204 pages
...the boy before you has been trained in the way he will go," CHAPTER XVII. " Oh, who con tell, save ho whose heart hath tried, And danced in triumph o'er...wide, The exulting sense — the pulse's maddening flay, That thrills the wanderer of that trackless way t" " Have I once lived to see two honest men... | |
 | Charles Samuel Stewart - 1839 - 354 pages
...sailor's life, in its most favorable aspect, before me, I have been led with Byron to exclaim — " Oh who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried, And danced in triumph, o'er the water wide, The exulting sense, the pulse's mad'ning play, That thrills the wand'rer of the trackless... | |
 | John Marshall - 1839 - 152 pages
...we felt the full force of the beautiful lines of Byron : — " ' O ! who can tell, hnt he whose soul hath tried, And danced in triumph o'er the waters wide, The exulting sense, the pulse's madd'ning play That thrills the wanderer of that stormy way)' " Monday, 1 Oth. — Wind, south-west... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1855 - 528 pages
...expedition, pointing out the delights of the sea, and quoting Byron's beautiful lines upon the subject — " Oh ! who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried, And danced in trinmph o'er the waters wide, The exulting sense, the pulse's maddening play, That thrills the wanderer... | |
 | Sarah Rogers Haight - 1840 - 344 pages
...eggshell boat over the chafed billows, until I almost fancied that 1 should like to be a sailor ; for " Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried,...That thrills the wanderer of that trackless way." e After a few hours passed in buffeting the angry waves, we gained the shelter of some small islands,... | |
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