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" How gloriously her gallant course she goes! Her white wings flying — never from her foes — She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife. "
The corsair, a tale [in verse.]. - Page 15
by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1818 - 114 pages
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Yachts and Yachting: Being a Treatise on Building, Sparring, Canvassing ...

William Cooper - 1873 - 520 pages
...bowsprit sheave to the jib halliard blocks, and state length of traveller-hook as above. CHAPTER XIII. " How gloriously her gallant course she goes ! Her white wings flying— never from her foesShe walks the waters like a thing of life. And seems to dare the elements to strife."— BYRON....
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"Vissch."

William Lightfoot Visscher - 1878 - 218 pages
...JANE — A ROMANCE OF THE SEA AND 8HOKE. BY GEORGE WASHINGTON BBICKB. CHAPTER THE FIRST. "See how upon her gallant course she goes, Her white wings flying — never from her foes ! Who would not cash a twenty-dollar eheck To move the monarch of her painted deck !"— BYRON. O,...
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Annual Register of the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md, Volumes 25-32

United States Naval Academy - 1874 - 888 pages
...spurred to ride, aud millions ready saddled and bridled 1 be ridden. 0 NAB IX. She walke the water» like a thing of life And seems to dare the elements to strife : Who would not brave the battle fire, the wreck. To move the monarch of the peopled deck T Explain syntactically the words in...
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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source Passages and ...

John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 pages
...bree2e can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home. The Corsair. Canto \. St. I. She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife. Canto i. St. 3. The power of Thought, — the magic of the Mind. Canto i. St. 8. The many still must...
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Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious Indexes ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pages
...vessels into port; Then with a gentle ebb retire again, And render back their cargo to the main. ADDISON. How gloriously her gallant course she goes ! Her white...wings flying — never from her foes ; She walks the water like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife. Who would not brave the battle...
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The Splendid Advantages of Being a Woman

Charles James Dunphie - 1876 - 390 pages
...too, Byron employs the phrase with the happiest effect in his description of a sailing ship : — " She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife." So, also, Wordsworth, in his mournful meditations on the most ill-starred of poets : — " I thought...
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See und Seefahrt, nebst dem metaphorischen Gebrauch dieser ..., Volume 1

Johannes Schumann - 1876 - 108 pages
...Anm. 1, a. E. 2) Mit Vorliebe wenden auch jüngere Dichter dieses Bild an: Byron The Corsair С. l, 3: „How gloriously her gallant course she goes! Her white wings flying — never from her foes.u Childe Har. Pilgr. C. 2, ¿8: „Pass we the joys and sorrows sailors find, Co'op'd in their...
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Carleton's Hand-book of Popular Quotations

1877 - 362 pages
...; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. COLERIDGE, Ancient Mariner, part ii. Waters — She walks the WATERS like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife. BYRON, The Corsair, canto i. et 3. Wave. — When you do dance, I wish you A WAVE o' the sea. that...
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Complete manual of analysis and paraphrasing, by W. Davidson and J.C. Alcock

William Davidson (B.A.) - 1877 - 240 pages
...omitted. 24. In what ways may compound sentences be contracted? 95. TWENTY.SECOND ANALYSIS MODEL. 1. She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife. 2. Thus on I thought Until my head was dizzy and distraught. Moreover, through the dancing poppies...
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The poetical works of lord Byron

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1878 - 636 pages
...which proudly spurns the spray. How gloriously her gallant course she goes I Her white wings flymg — never from her foes— She walks the waters like a...Who would not brave the battle-fire — the wreck — To move the monarch of her peopled deck ? IV. Hoarse o'er her side the rustling cable rings : The...
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