 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1855 - 180 Seiten
...he was uncurl'd, A golden foot or a fairy horn Thro' his dim water-world ? 4. Slight, to be crush'd with a tap Of my finger-nail on the sand, Small, but a work divine, Frail, but of force to withstand, Tear upon year, the shock Of cataract seas that snap The three-decker's oaken spine Athwart the ledges... | |
 | 1859 - 802 Seiten
...shell as the poet himself found on the Breton coast; ' made so fairily well, a miracle of design ; frail, but of force to withstand, year upon year, the shock of cataract-seas." The clumsy fingers that seek in vain to grasp it would petulantly crush it;—for coarse... | |
 | William L Robinson - 1862 - 232 Seiten
...when he was uncurl'd, A golden foot or a fairy horn his dim water-world ? j 132 Slight, to be crusht with a tap Of my finger-nail on the sand, Small, but...upon year, the shock Of cataract seas that snap The three-deckers oaken spine Athwart the ledges of rock. Tennyson. LUCY GEAY. Oft I had heard of Lucy... | |
 | 1862 - 692 Seiten
...he was uncurl'd, A golden foot or a fairy horn Thro' his dim water-world ? " Slight, to be crush'd with a tap Of my finger-nail on the sand, Small, but...of force to withstand, Year upon year, the shock Of cataract-seas that snap The three-decker's oaken spine Athwart the ledges of rock, Here on the Breton... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1863 - 468 Seiten
...he was uncurl'd, A golden foot or a fairy horn Thro' his dim water-world ? 4. Slight, to be crush'd with a tap Of my finger-nail on the sand, Small, but a work divine, ?r»U. but of force to withstand, Year upon year, the shock Of cataract seas that snap The three-decker's... | |
 | George Douglas Campbell Duke of Argyll - 1867 - 490 Seiten
...mechanics as the bridge, both being structures in which the same arrangement is adapted to the same end. " Small, but a work divine; Frail, but of force to withstand,...cataract seas that snap The three-decker's oaken spine." * This is but one instance out of a number which no man can count. So far as we know, no Law — that... | |
 | George Douglas Campbell Duke of Argyll - 1868 - 528 Seiten
...mechanics as the bridge, both being structures in which the same arrangement is adapted to the same end. " Small, but a work divine ; Frail, but of force to...cataract seas that snap The three-decker's oaken spine." 1 This is but one instance out of a number which no man can count. So far as we know, no Law — that... | |
 | 1868 - 986 Seiten
...the Meiiai Bridge, both being structures in which the same arrangement is adapted to the same end. ' Small, but a work divine ; Frail, but of force to...cataract seas that snap The three-decker's oaken spine.' " The electric ray, or torpedo, has been provided with a battery closely resembling, but greatly exceeding... | |
 | 1868 - 444 Seiten
...glacier, overwhelm the itoutest works of man, or in vast islands of floating ice show themselves to be ' Of force to withstand, year upon year, the shock Of cataract seas that snap the three-deckers oaken spine.' " —Daily Ntwi. * Of course these colours are not real, simply the effect... | |
 | James Hutchison Stirling - 1868 - 266 Seiten
...shell as the poet himself found on the Breton coast; " made so fairily well, a miracle of design ; frail, but of force to withstand, year upon year, the shock of cataract-seas." The clumsy fingers that seek in vain to grasp it would petulantly crush it;—for coarse... | |
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The tiny cell is forlorn, Void of the little living will That made it stir on the shore. Did he stand at the diamond door Of his house in a rainbow frill ? Did he push, when he was uncurl'd, A golden foot or a fairy horn Thro... 
