Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot : O Christ ! That ever this should be ! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea. Little Classics - Sida 27redigerad av - 1875Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
| Anne Williams - 1995 - 336 sidor
...contains as yet no direct discourse. But horror — physical revulsion — is their most salient response: The very deep did rot, O Christ! That ever this should be! Yea, slimy diings did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea. (LI. 123-26) Such a response is predicted by Kristeva's... | |
| Thomas Stearns Eliot - 1996 - 476 sidor
...behind him' (The White Seal, The Jungle Book, 1 894). Compare Coleridge, The Ancient Mariner 1 2.8—30: The death-fires danced at night; The water, like a witch's oils, Burnt green, and blue, and white. 15, 17 name . . . teeth of flame: Wilde rhymes 'teeth of flame' with 'name', The Ballad of Reading... | |
| Kevin T. Pickering, Lewis A. Owen - 1997 - 584 sidor
...aimed at reducing the emissions that cause acidic deposition. Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot; О Christ! That ever this should be! Tea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea. About,... | |
| Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 sidor
...1 shot the Albatross. 2446 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' Water, water, everywhere, And all the Yes, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea. 2447 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' The... | |
| Robert Kunzig - 1999 - 360 sidor
...concealed in the deep that we are best acquainted. — PLINY THE ELDER, quoted in the Challenger Report The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should...slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea. — SAMUEL COLERIDGE, quoted in the Challenger Report On the floor of the deep sea, the cold and lightless,... | |
| Robert Edward Lee - 1999 - 634 sidor
...the cell that has evolved to enable survival of A. tamarensisin deep coastal waters. Bioluminescence About, about, in reel and rout The death-fires danced...like a witch's oils Burnt green, and blue, and white Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Mariners from early times have marveled at... | |
| J. Mann - 2000 - 268 sidor
...Ancient Mariner, it is easy to imagine that opium played some part in the creation of this unusual poem: Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy...like a witch's oils, Burnt green, and blue and white. The literati were certainly not the only well-known users of opium and other hard drugs as the following... | |
| Owen J. Flanagan - 2000 - 228 sidor
...poem, many days have passed in which there is: "Water, water everywhere, / Nor any drop to drink" and "The very deep did rot: O Christ! / That ever this...things did crawl with legs / Upon the slimy sea." Then Part V begins this way: 'O sleep! it is a gende thing, Beloved from pole to pole! To Mary Queen... | |
| Deryck Scarr - 2001 - 376 sidor
...phosphorescent sea below the Line that struck her company as putrid.3 Hence the poet's The very deep did rot: 0 Christ! That ever this should be! Yea slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea All this, while Beyond the shadow of the ship I watched the water-snakes: They moved in tracks of shining... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2002 - 92 sidor
...water, every where Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot: 0 Christ! That ever this should be! Is, Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy...death-fires danced at night; The water, like a witch's oils, s,o Burnt green, and blue and white. A Spirit had followed them; one of the invisible inhabitants of... | |
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