 For them the Ceylon diver held his breath, And went all naked to the hungry shark; For them his ears gush'd blood; for them in death The seal on the cold ice with piteous bark Lay full of darts; for them alone did seethe A thousand men in troubles wide...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 6061848Full view - About this book
 | William Howitt - 1838 - 548 pages
...Ferdinand to those who were going out to take part in the nefarious deeds — They sate at home, and turned an easy wheel, That set sharp racks at work to pinch and peel. The small and almost nominal sum which had been allowed to the natives for their labour was now denied... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - 1840 - 552 pages
...; for them alone did seethe A thousand men in troubles wide and dark • Half-ignorant, they turn'd an easy wheel, That set sharp racks at work, to pinch and peel. XVI. Why were they proud ? Because their marble founts Gush'd with more pride than do a wretch's tears... | |
 | John Keats - 1846 - 340 pages
...darts ; for them alone did seethe A thousand men in troubles wide and dark : Half-ignorant, they turn'd an easy wheel, That set sharp racks at work, to pinch and peel. XVI. Why were they proud ? Because their marble founts Gush'd with more pride than do a wretch's tears... | |
 | John Keats - 1846 - 348 pages
...darts ; for them alone did seethe A thousand men in troubles wide and dark : Half-ignorant, they turn'd an easy wheel, That set sharp racks at work, to pinch and peel. XVI. Why were they proud ? Because their marble founts Gush'd with more pride than do a wretch's tears... | |
 | John Keats - 1847 - 280 pages
...darts; for them alone did seethe A thousand men in troubles wide and dark : Half-ignorant, they turn'd an easy wheel, That set sharp racks at work, to pinch and peel. Why were they proud 1 Because their marble fonnta Gush'd with more pride than do a wretch's tears ?... | |
 | 1848 - 690 pages
...boys." " For them alone did seethe A thousand men in troubles wide and dark : Half-ignorant, they turned an easy wheel, That set sharp racks at work to pinch...placid surface it assumed to the world, some men of honor, courage, and high station resolved to probe its mysteries ; and discovered that the sleek burgesses,... | |
 | 1848 - 816 pages
...boys." "For them alone did seethe A thousand men in troubles wide and dark'Half-ignorant, they turn'd an easy wheel, That set sharp racks at work to pinch...Many years had passed over the guilty traffic, ere au accident having disturbed the placid surface it assumed to the world, some men of honour, courage,... | |
 | University magazine - 1849 - 836 pages
...for them alone did seethe A thousand men in troubles, wide and dark — Half ignorant, they turned an easy wheel, That set sharp racks at work, to pinch and peel." Burns, in his twin poems of matchless But were there ever any beauty, on the " Daisy" and " Field Writhed... | |
 | Camilla Crosland - 1849 - 188 pages
...I. " For them alone did seethe A thousand men in troubles wide and dark : Half ignorant, they turn'd an easy wheel, That set sharp racks at work, to pinch and peel." — KEATS. " Some of us are magnificently good, And hold the head up high like a giraffe." — FESTOS.... | |
 | Mrs. Newton Crosland - 1849 - 190 pages
...I. " For them alone did seethe A thousand men in troubles wide and dark : Half ignorant, they turn'd an easy wheel, That set sharp racks at work, to pinch and peel." — KEATs. " Some of us are magnificently good, And hold the head up high like a giraffe." — FESTUS.... | |
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