| William Parsons Atkinson - Young men - 1849 - 54 pages
...grieve that it is not all a garden of roses ; but " Give me a spirit that on Life's rough sea Loves to have his sails filled with a lusty wind, Even till...masts crack, And his rapt ship run on her side so low That she drinks water, and her keel ploughs air. There is no danger to a man that knows What life... | |
| Edwin Percy Whipple - American literature - 1851 - 412 pages
...has trust in himself: — " The Master Spirit. 11 Give me a spirit that on life's rough sea Loves to have his sails filled with a lusty wind, Even till...masts crack, And his rapt ship run on her side so low, That she drinks water, and her keel ploughs air. There is no danger to a man that knows What life... | |
| Wife - 1855 - 350 pages
...counselled silence ; and in this case he listened to their counsel. CHAPTER XII. " Give me a spirit that on life's rough sea Loves t' have his sails filled with a lusty wind. E'en till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack. There is no danger to a man that knows What Life... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1857 - 468 pages
...they do ? The Master Spirit. Give me a spirit that on life's rough sea Loves to have his sails fill'd with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble,...masts crack, And his rapt ship run on her side so low, That she drinks water, and her keel ploughs air. There is no danger to a man, that knows What... | |
| Beautiful poetry - 1859 - 420 pages
...of the sea A MASTER SPIRIT. Give me a spirit that on life's rough sea Loves to have his sails fill'd with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble,...masts crack, And his rapt ship run on her side so low, That she drinks water, and her keel ploughs air, There is no danger to a man, that knows What... | |
| Edwin Percy Whipple - American literature - 1861 - 420 pages
...has trust in himself: — " The Master Spirit. " Give me a spirit that on life's rough sea Loves to have his sails filled with a lusty wind, Even till...masts crack, And his rapt ship run on her side so low, That she drinks water, and her keel ploughs air. There is no danger to a man that knows What life... | |
| Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 692 pages
...Passages for Translation 1079 THE MASTER SPIRIT GIVE me a spirit that on life's rough sea loves to have his sails filled with a lusty wind, even till...masts crack, and his rapt ship run on her side so low, that she drinks water, and her keel ploughs air. There is no danger to a man that knows what life... | |
| John William Stanhope Hows - American drama - 1865 - 592 pages
...would ope and hide us in our graves. Master-Spirit. Give me a spirit that on life's rough sea Loves to have his sails filled with a lusty wind, Even till...masts crack, And his rapt ship run on her side so low, That she drinks water, and her keel ploughs air. There is no danger to a man, that knows What... | |
| George Chapman - 1874 - 584 pages
...let you or respect you. Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves t'have his sails fill'd with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble,...masts crack, And his rapt ship run on her side so low That she drinks water, and her keel plows air. There is no danger to a man that knows What life... | |
| Edward Dowden - 1875 - 448 pages
...absolute security : — Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves to have his sails flll'd with a lusty wind Even till his sail-yards tremble,...lowThat she drinks water, and her keel ploughs air ; There is no danger to a man that knows What life and death is, — there's not any law Exceeds his... | |
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