A Narrative of the Wreck of the Minerva: Whaler of Port Jackson, New South Wales, on Nicholson's Shoal, 24 ̊S. 179 ̊W. ...B. Bridges, 1831 - 181 páginas |
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Página vi - Again she plunges ! hark ! a second shock Tears her strong bottom on the marble rock : Down on the vale of death, with dismal cries,. The fated victims, shuddering, roll their eyes In wild despair ; while yet another stroke, With deep convulsion, rends the solid oak ; Till like the mine, in whose infernal cell The lurking demons of destruction dwell, At length asunder torn her frame divides, And, crashing, spreads in ruin o'er the tides.
Página vi - And now, lash'd on by destiny severe, With horror fraught, the dreadful scene drew near! The ship hangs hovering on the verge of death, Hell yawns, rocks rise, and breakers roar beneath!— In vain, alas! the sacred shades of yore Would arm the mind with philosophic lore; In vain they'd teach us, at the latest breath, To smile serene amid the pangs of death.
Página 7 - Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.
Página 42 - The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD.
Página 82 - Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him : but weep sore for him that goeth away : for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.
Página 27 - Society, cut off, is left alone Amid this world of death. Day after day, Sad on the jutting eminence he sits, And views the main that ever toils below; Still fondly forming in the farthest verge, Where the round ether mixes with the wave, Ships...
Página 16 - Father of the spirits of all flesh," " who willeth not the death of a sinner ; but that all should come to repentance.
Página 32 - ... the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever...
Página 18 - It is not in him that willeth, nor in him that runneth, but in God that showeth mercy.
Página 39 - But God, who is rich in mercy to all that call upon him, gave me this mercy — to see that while there is no hope for the self-trusting and...