 | United States - 1825 - 398 pages
...months pass, and winter surprises them on the deep, but brings them not the sight of the wished for shore. I see them now scantily supplied with provisions,...circuitous route ; — and now driven in fury before the 7 53 raging tempest, on the high arid giddy waves* The awful voice of the storm howls through the rigging.... | |
 | George Merriam - Readers - 1828 - 292 pages
...uncertain, the tedious voyage. Suns rise and set, and weeks and months pass, and winter surprises them on the deep, but brings them not the sight of the wished-for...voice of the storm howls through the rigging. The labouring masts seem straining from their base ; the dismal sound of the pumps is heard ; the ship... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 452 pages
...pass, and winter surprises them on the deep, but brings them not the sight •SO of the wished for shore. I see them now scantily supplied with provisions,...the raging tempest, on the high and giddy waves. The aw55 ful voice of the storm howls through the rigging. The labouring masts seem straining from their... | |
 | George Merriam - Readers - 1828 - 286 pages
...uncertain, the tedious voyage. Suns rise and set, and weeks and months pass, and winter surprises them on the deep, but brings them not the sight of the wished-for...delayed by calms, pursuing a circuitous route, — and no»v driven in fury before the raging tempest, on the high and giddy waves. The awful voice of the... | |
 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...uncertain, the tedious voyage. "Suns rise and set, and weeks and months pass, and winter surprises them on the deep, but brings them not the sight of the wished-for...ill-stored prison, delayed by calms, pursuing a circuitous route;—and now driven in fury iefore the raging tempest, on the high and giddy waves. The awful voice... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 418 pages
...changed into wrath; when the arm which had never supported, was raised to destroy. 50 of the wished for shore. I see them now scantily supplied with provisions,...prison ;—delayed by calms, pursuing a circuitous route,—and now driven in fury before the raging tempest, on the high and giddy waves. The aw45 the... | |
 | George Merriam - Readers - 1828 - 282 pages
...pass, and winter surprises them on the deep, but brings them not the sight of the tvished-for shore. 1 see them now scantily supplied with provisions ; crowded...delayed by calms, pursuing a circuitous route, — and no»v driven in fury before the raging tempest, on the high and giddy waves. The awful voice of the... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 290 pages
...uncertain, the tedious voyage. Suns rise and set, and weeks and months pass, and winter surprises them on the deep, but brings them not the sight of the wished-for...voice of the storm howls through the rigging; the labouring masts seem straining from their base ; the dismal sound of the pumps is heard ; the ship... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1829 - 270 pages
...Everett's description of the Pilgrim Fathers on their voyage to America. " I see them driven in fury hefore the raging tempest, on the high and giddy waves. The...voice of the storm howls through the rigging. The labouring masts seem straining from their base ; — the dismal sound of the pumps is heard ; the ship... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - English language - 1829 - 62 pages
...uncertain, the tedious voyage. Suns rise and set, and weeks and months pass, and winter surprises them on the deep, but brings them not the sight of the wished-for shore. I see them now scantily supplied with provision, crowded almost to suffocation in their ill-stored prison, delayed by calms, pursuing a circuitous... | |
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Mayflower of a forlorn hope, freighted with the prospects of a future state, and bound across the unknown sea. I behold it pursuing, with a thousand misgivings, the uncertain, the tedious voyage. Suns rise and set, and weeks and months pass, and winter... 
