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" And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight : and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing... "
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A lecture on the influence and advantages of education

John Downes Owens - Education - 1844 - 64 pages
...pilgrimage, I can say of knowledge, — " And I have loved thee, — and my joy Of youthful sport, was on thy breast to be Borne like thy bubbles onward,— from a boy I wanton'd with thy breakers, — they to me Were a delight ; and if the fresh'ning sea Made them a terror...
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An Essay on Elocution: With Elucidatory Passages from Various Authors. To ...

John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1845 - 492 pages
...headlong into the sea." ABSURD BOAST OF XERXES. "And I have loved thee, Ocean! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles...near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here. LORD BYBON. "Silence, ye troubled waves ; and thou deep, peace, Said then th' omnific word; your discord...
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The District School Reader, Or, Exercises in Reading and Speaking: Designed ...

William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 494 pages
...; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone. And I have loved thee, ocean ! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles,...near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here. LESSON XXIII. EXERCISES IN ARTICULATION. d : — her/, dead, did, made, grazed, hedged, judged, saved,...
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The Yale Literary Magazine, Volume 2

1837 - 396 pages
...on its breast to be Borne, like its bubbles, onward: from a boy I wanton'd with its breakers—they to me Were a delight; and if the freshening sea Made them a terror—'twas a pleasing fear." The sailor's life was my " beau ideal" of happiness. As I grew older...
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Byron, the Bible, and Religion: Essays from the Twelfth International Byron ...

Wolf Z. Hirst - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 218 pages
...when he recalls his boyhood love of the ocean: And I have loved thee, Ocean! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward: from a boy I wanton'd with thy breakers - they to me Were a delight; and if the freshening sea Made them a terror...
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The Collected Poems of Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron - Poetry - 1994 - 884 pages
...goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone. CLXXXTV. And I have loved thee, Ocean) and my joy Of youthful And all, save the spirit of man, is divine ? Т is the clime of the East; Ч wanton 'd with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight ; and if the freshening sea Made them a terror...
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A Defense of Poetry: Reflections on the Occasion of Writing

Paul H. Fry - Poetry - 1995 - 276 pages
...the parentage of Ocean and then denies even that priority by taming the great devourer to his will: For I was as it were a Child of thee, And trusted...near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here. (4.184) The ocean is Byron's last semblable, not a complementary double or other, for those will always...
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Romantic Writings

Stephen Bygrave - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 364 pages
...the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. 184 And I have loved thee, Ocean! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles,...near, And laid my hand upon thy mane - as I do here. (Complete Poetical Works, vo1. II, pp. 184-6) Discussion There is much here that reminds us of Wordsworth:...
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Selected Poems

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Poetry - 1996 - 868 pages
...the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone. CLXXXIV CLXXXI Were a delight; and if the freshening sea Made them...pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, 1655 And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane - as I do here. My task...
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Romanticism and the Androgynous Sublime

Warren Stevenson - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 166 pages
...when Byron brings his sublime discourse down to earth by means of a frankly autobiographical touch: Borne, like thy bubbles, onward: from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers—they to me Were a delight; and if the freshening sea Made them a terror—'twas a pleasing...
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