| Charles Dibdin - 1863 - 366 páginas
...sailing they do go. 'TWAS WHEN THE SEAS WERE ROARING. GAY.— From the " What d'ye call it." jj WAS when the seas were roaring ' With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring, I All on a rock reclined. Wide o'er the foaming billows She cast a wistful look ; Her head was crown'd... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 882 páginas
...therefore, enabled to adapt so happily some of the airs in the Beggar's Opera." ' — Notes to SPENCE. 1 'Twas when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts...foaming billows She cast a wistful look ; Her head was crown'd with willows That trembled o'er the brook. Twelve months are gone and over, And nine long tedious... | |
| Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1864 - 210 páginas
...Excessive alternating with the complete Trimeter, form what has been called Gay's Stanza ; eg : — " "Twas when the seas were roar-ing With hollow blasts...wind, A damsel lay deplor-ing All on a rock reclined." — Gay. 168. The other forms in which the simple regular measure occurs, are either varieties of those... | |
| John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 páginas
...always loved, now love the more.* The Peruigilium Veneris. JOHN GAT. 1688-1732. 'T was when the sea was roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring All on a rock reclined. The What D'ye Call 't. Act ii. Sc. 8. So comes a reckoning when the banquet 's o'er, The dreadful reckoning,... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1867 - 334 páginas
...enabled to adapt BO happily some of the airs in the Beggar's Opera'"— Notes to SPENCE. ** " 'T was when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind,...foaming billows She cast a wistful look; Her head was crown'd with willows That trembled o'er the brook. " ' Twelve months are gone and over, Why didst thou... | |
| Wayne E. Burton - 1867 - 674 páginas
...while a niusical mate with the hiccups pealed forth Gay's beantiful ballad,— 'Twos when the eeas wore roaring . With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring. All on a ruck reclined, — there came a sharp rap at the steerage doors, and the master at arms, with his horn... | |
| Karl Weinhold - 1868 - 412 páginas
...(Srbiafft unb fanf ins ЗКеег. SB. $>ie erfte @tto(jf|e biefer SBaflabe lautet im englifdjen: 'T was when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring All on a rock reclind. Wide o'er the roaring billows She cast a wishful look, Her head was crownd with willows, That... | |
| Karl Weinhold - 1868 - 410 páginas
...grbíafft unb fonf in§ Зйеег. 93. 'Sie erfte ©troplje biefer SSaHabe lautet im englifdjen: 'T was when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring All on a rock reclind. Wide o'er the roaring billows She cast a wishful look, Her head was crownd with willows, That... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 410 páginas
...enabled to adapt so happily some of the airs in the " Beggar's Opera." ' " — Notes to Sfence. f ' ' 'Twas when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts...foaming billows She cast a wistful look ; Her head was crown'd with willows That trembled o'er the brook. • " ' Twelve months are gone and over, And nine... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 414 páginas
...enabled to adapt so happily some of the airs in the " Beggar's Opera." ' " — Mates t« Sptnee. f " 'Twas when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts...foaming billows She cast a wistful look ; Her head was crown'd with willows That trembled o'er the brook. " ' Twelve months are gone and over, And nine long... | |
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