 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1816 - 674 pages
...contained in the second ctanza of this canto, where Lord Byron dwells on his embarkation from England. " Once more upon the waters ! yet once more ! And the...bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider." Chapman, in his Kyron's Conspiracy •, (the coincidence of the name is singular), has this comparison... | |
 | English literature - 1816 - 692 pages
...shores could grieve or glad mine eye. The winds lift up tUeir voices: 1 depart, " Once more upon tlie waters! yet once more! And the waves bound beneath...steed That knows his rider.' Welcome, to their roar! Though the strain'd mast should quiver as a reed, "* """Arid the rent canvas fluttering strew the gale,... | |
 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - Bibliography - 1817 - 606 pages
...thus repeating aloud to the whistling cessarily compelled to be brief. I will however do my utmost. 1 Once more upon the waters, yet once more ! And the...waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider !' Resuming the poetical strain, which seems just now very strangely to have possessed us, '------... | |
 | 1858 - 862 pages
...on the morrow of our leaving Shanghai, saw dear mother ocean clad in her glorious robes of blue ! " Once more upon the waters ! yet once more ! And the waves bound beneath us, as a steed That knows Lis rider." After months — nay, more than a year — pothering about in... | |
 | Religion - 1818 - 904 pages
...me, and on high The winds lift up their voices: I depart, Whither I know not; but the hour's gone by, When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye. "Once more npon the waters I yet once more! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider. Welcome,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 pages
...know not; but the hour's gone by, When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye. II. Once more upon the waters! yet once more! And the...wheresoe'er it lead! Though the strain'd mast should quiver as a reed, And the rent canvas fluttering strew the gale, Still must I on; for I am as a wred, Flung... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1821 - 478 pages
...know not ; but the hour's gone by, When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye. II. Once more upon the waters ! yet once more ! And the...steed That knows his rider. Welcome, to their roar ! •s. Swift be their guidance, wheresoe'er it lead I Though the strain'd mast should quiver as a... | |
 | English literature - 1832 - 614 pages
...Persai of .4ischylus suggested a celebrated passage in ' Childe Harold :'— ivroy.' — Persic. 71. ' Once more upon the waters, yet once more, And the waves bound beneath me like a steed That knows his lider.' — Canto i. " We might also hint at the far more striking similarity... | |
 | German literature - 1822 - 534 pages
...fdf)tt>ell'n bic ЗБозсл, itnb bie SBintt Streben Çeulenb iÇre Stimmen — Unb in bei folgenben Stande: Once more upon the waters! yet once more ! And the...wheresoe'er it lead! Though the strain'd mast should quiver as a reed, And the rent canvas fluttering strew the gale Still must I on. 9lod> «innwí auf bie SBalïer... | |
 | English essays - 1822 - 492 pages
...manifested in various ways, by various characters. B — gave vent to his feelings in a poetical effusion : Once more upon the waters — yet once more — And the waves bound beneath me, like a steed That knows its rider. Lord Byron was now handed from one to the other in very fine style... | |
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Though the strain'd mast should quiver as a reed, And the rent canvas fluttering strew the gale, Still must I on ; for I am as a weed, Flung from the rock, on Ocean's foam, to sail Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail. 
