 | John Wesley Hales - 1878 - 772 pages
...death-fires danced at night ; The water, like a witch's oils, Burnt green, and blue, and white. 130 " And some in dreams assured were Of the spirit that plagued...and snow. " And every tongue, through utter drought, 135 Was withered at the root ; We could not speak, no more than if We had been choked with soot. "... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1878 - 508 pages
...death-fires danced at night ; The water, like a witch's oils, Burnt green, and blue, and white. 32. " And some in dreams assured were Of the spirit that plagued...he had followed us From the land of mist and snow. 33. " And every tongue, through utter drought, Was withered at the root ; We could not speak, no more... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1878 - 826 pages
...death-fires danced at night ; The water, like a witch's oils, Burnt green, and blue and white. And some in dreams assured were Of the Spirit that plagued...he had followed us From the land of mist and snow. A Spirit had followed them ; one of ihe invisible inhabitants ot this planet, neither departed scuta... | |
 | Gibney - 1986 - 180 pages
...thirst, is a most distressful experience, aptly summarized by Coleridge's hallucinating Ancient Mariner: And every tongue, through utter drought Was withered...speak, no more than if We had been choked with soot . . . With throats unslaked, with black lips baked, We could not laugh nor wail; Through utter drought... | |
 | Karl Kroeber, Gene W. Ruoff - 1993 - 520 pages
...Albatross, he not only alienates himself from nature, his shipmates, and God, but also loses his speech: And every tongue, through utter drought. Was withered...speak, no more than if We had been choked with soot. (135-38)7 Consequently, the Mariner remains silent during most of the action recorded in his tale.... | |
 | Jack Stillinger - 1994 - 268 pages
...may be consulted. They are very numerous, and there is no climate or element without one or more. 135 And every tongue, through utter drought, Was withered...speak, no more than if We had been choked with soot. Ah! well a-day! what evil looks The shipmates, in wo Had I from old and young! thcir sore distress,... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...Psellus. mav be consulted. Thev are verv numerous, and there is no climate or element without one or And every tongue, through utter drought. Was withered...speak, no more than if We had been choked with soot. The shipmates, Ah! well a-dav! what evil looks in their sore , , \ , - ij . distress, would Had ' from... | |
 | Joseph C. Sitterson - 2000 - 228 pages
...this point a kind of dream-withina-dream, with a consequently enigmatic relationship to truth: And some in dreams assured were Of the spirit that plagued...he had followed us From the land of mist and snow. The shipmates' interpretation of their dreams occurs almost immediately after their disastrous misinterpretation... | |
 | Robert X. Leeds - 1999 - 366 pages
...the whole guilt on the ancient Mariner: in sign whereof they hang the dead sea bird around his neck. And every tongue, through utter drought, Was withered...speak, no more than if We had been choked with soot. Ah! well-a-day! what evil looks Had I from old and young! Instead of the cross, the Albatross About... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2002 - 92 pages
...very numerous, and there is no climate or clement without one or more. And some in dreams assuréd were Of the Spirit that plagued us so; Nine fathom...speak, no more than if We had been choked with soot. The shipmates, in their sore distress, would fain throw the whole guilt on the ancient Mariner: in... | |
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And every tongue, through utter drought, Was withered at the root; We could not speak, no more than if We had been choked with soot. Ah! well-a-day! what evil looks Had I from old and young? Instead of the cross the Albatross About my neck was hung. 
