 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1870 - 264 pages
...made the breeze to blow. 'Ah, wretch !' said they, 'the bird to slay That made the breeze to blow ! ' Nor dim nor red, like God's own head, The glorious...all the boards did shrink : Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot : alas ! That ever this should be ; Yea, slimy things... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1870 - 530 pages
...made the breeze to blow. 'Ah, wretch!' said they, 'the bird to slay That made the breeze to blow ! ' Nor dim nor red, like God's own head, The glorious...all the boards did shrink : Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot : alas ! That ever this should be ; Yea, slimy things... | |
 | David Daiches - 1969 - 356 pages
...burst Into that silent sea. But soon the wind drops, and the first part of the curse manifests itself: All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon,...all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should be! Yea, slimy things... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...dropt down, Twas sad as sad could be; And we did speak only to break The silence of the sea! 100 110 All in a hot and copper sky. The bloody Sun, at noon....day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; And the Albatross begins to be avenged. As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. Water, water,... | |
 | Frances Luttikhuizen - 1997 - 192 pages
...first that ever burst Into that silent sea. Down dropped the breeze, the sails dropped down, 'Twos sad as sad could be; And we did speak only to break...all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere. But not a drop to drink.... 'r'<*SS*s?'jf1*^ ''• ' 8.4.1. Critical Thinking Skills Discuss the following... | |
 | Mervyn Nicholson - 1999 - 284 pages
...becalmed. They are suspended in a limbo, a twilight zone of lifelessness and unreality: Down drop! the breeze, the sails dropt down, Twas sad as sad...breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. (ll.107-1 18) The eerie feeling of descending into a world of two dimensions could... | |
 | William Galvani - 1999 - 236 pages
...1726 ...nothing in nature is so disagreeable as hard weather at sea... ADMIRAL GEORGE RODNEY, ca. 1760 All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon,...all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE from the poem 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', 1798... | |
 | Robert X. Leeds - 1999 - 366 pages
...The silence of the sea! All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above the mist did stand, No bigger than the Moon. Day after day,...all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should be! Yea, slimy things... | |
 | C. L. Brantley, Cynthia Johnson - 2002 - 319 pages
...example from Samuel Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," each stanza is made up of four lines. All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon,...all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should be! Yea, slimy things... | |
 | John Salinsky - 2002 - 252 pages
...continues to fly north, and it gets warmer. But the trouble is, it carries on getting warmer, and warmer: All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody sun at noon,...all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. What a use of words. The long 'o's in hot, copper, bloody, noon, moon; and then... | |
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Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down 'Twas sad as sad could be; And we did speak only to break The silence of the sea! All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon. Day after day,... 
