| John William Carleton - 1841 - 528 pages
...better: no matter what the means, the end will dignify the instrument. THE ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON. " Far aS the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire and behold our home."—TUB CORSA1R. Viscount Ashbrooke ; Charles Aylmer, Esq. ; Wm. Baring, Esq.; the Earl of Belmore... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1842 - 484 pages
...CHAPTER XlX. OVr the glad waters of the dark-bine sea , Our thought* as boundless, and our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire and behold our home! The Conair. ONE is never fully aware of the extent of the movement that agitates the bosom of the ocean... | |
| Trip - 1842 - 466 pages
...chant, " O'er the glad waters of the dark-blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless and our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear the billows' foam, Survey our empire and behold our home!" Born, however, and walking in a more peaceable and somewhat more respectable line of life, I content... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - 560 pages
...DANTE, I. " O'ER the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey...empire, and behold our home ! These are our realms, no limils to their sway — Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey. Ours the wild life in tumult still... | |
| George Ramsay - 1843 - 574 pages
...There is a wildness about it which captivates the imagination far more than any regulated pursuit : " Ours the wild life in tumult still to range, From toil to rest, and joy in every change." 6 Mahogany, as sailors call it, on account of its hardness. Hence boys are so much taken with it ;... | |
| Robert Gordon LATHAM - 1843 - 236 pages
...blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free. Far as the breeze can bear the billow's foam, Survey our empire and behold our home. These are our realms, no limits to our sway— Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey. The next extract is a stanza of Gray's Elegy, where,... | |
| 1843 - 486 pages
...Lodge of England. The Society is spreading and flourishing in every quarter of the globe. •« Fitr as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire and behold our home." Let us look at the good our Brethren are distributing far and wide ; at the charitable institutions... | |
| 1845 - 530 pages
...already alluded to ? Wherefore, then, exclude Freemasons, of whose charity it may justly be said, " Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home (" Let our opponents look at the extensive metropolitan charities supported by Freemasons, where the... | |
| 1845 - 532 pages
...already alluded to ? Wherefore, then, exclude Freemasons, of whose charity it may justly be said, •• Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam. Survey our empire, and behold our home ?'* Let our opponents look at the extensive metropolitan charities supported by Freemasons, where the... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 848 pages
...DANTE. I. *O'ER the glad waters of the dark-blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free, eting, we can scarcely call it aught Beyond a vision,...dwells upon the soul, and soothes the sou), And blend Dure the wild life in tumult still to range From toil to rest, and joy in every change. Oh, who can... | |
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