 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1863 - 254 sidor
...surges, provoking each other endlessly, all the infinite march of the Atlantic rolling on behind thenij to their help, and still to strike them back into...futile foam, and win its way against them, and keep the charge of life away from them, doth any other soulless thing do as much as this ? " — Ruskin.... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1868 - 506 sidor
...that living fury of waters, to bare its breast, moment after moment, against the unwearied enmity of ocean ; the subtle, fitful, implacable smiting of...behind them to their help, and still to strike them to back into a wreath of smoke and futile foam, and win its way against them, and keep its charge of... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 sidor
...that living fury of waters, to bare its breast, moment after moment, against the unwearied enmity of ocean ; the subtle, fitful, implacable smiting of...them. Does any other soulless thing do as much as this ? I should not have talked of this feeling of mine about a boat if I had thought it was mine only ;... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1871 - 470 sidor
...that living fury of waters, to bare its breast, moment after moment, against the unwearied enmity of ocean ; the subtle, fitful, implacable smiting of...them. Does any other soulless thing do as much as this ? I should not have talked of this feeling of mine about a boat if I had thought it was mine only ;... | |
 | Manchester Literary Club - 1880 - 772 sidor
...that living fury of waters, to bare its breast moment after moment against the unwearied enmity of ocean, the subtle, fitful, implacable smiting of the...black waves provoking each other on endlessly, all the infinito march of the Atlantic rolling on behind them to their help, and still to strike them back... | |
 | 1881 - 416 sidor
...that living fury of waters, to bare its breast moment after moment against the unwearied enmity of ocean, the subtle, fitful, implacable smiting of the...against them, and keep its charge of life from them." On we go keeping sight of the shore, past Oxwich bay and Port Eyuon bay, all the land seeming asleep... | |
 | Strait gate - 1881 - 248 sidor
...that living fury of waters, bearing its breast moment after moment against the unwearied enmity of ocean, the subtle, fitful, implacable smiting of the...Atlantic rolling on behind them to their help, and it the while striking them back into a wreath of smoke and futile foam, and winning its way against... | |
 | Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 sidor
...that living fury of waters, to bare its breast, moment after moment, against the unwearied enmity of ocean ; the subtle, fitful, implacable smiting of...them. Does any other soulless thing do as much as this ? JOHN RUSKIN. THE FORSAKEN MERMAN. COME, dear children, let us away ; Down and away below ! Now my... | |
 | 1900 - 848 sidor
...with that living fury of waters" — "the subtle, fitful, implaeable smiting of the black waves" — "still to strike them back into a wreath of smoke and futile foam, and win its way against them." Here we seem, not only to see before our eyes, but to hear with our ears, the crash of a stout boat... | |
 | William Thomas Stead - 1895 - 630 sidor
...that living fury of waters, to bare its breast, moment after moment, against the unwearied enmity of ocean. — the subtle, fitful, implacable smiting...provoking each other on, endlessly, all the infinite mardi of the Atlantic rolling on bchiml them to their help and still to strike them hack into a wreath... | |
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But to war with that living fury of waters, to bare its breast, moment after moment, against the unwearied enmity of ocean ; the subtle, fitful, implacable smiting of the black waves, provoking each other on endlessly, all the infinite march of the Atlantic... 
