 | James Thomson - 1763 - 458 pages
...broad-wing'd veflel drinks the whelming tide, Hid in thebofom of .the black abyfs. .. 1000 With fuch mad leas the daring * GAMA fought, For many a day, and many a dreadful night, Inceflant, lab'ring round the flormy Caps ; 'By bold ambition led, and bolder ithirft Of gold. .For then from... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 280 pages
...between the tropics. f Called by the failors the Ox-eye, being in appear. ance at firft no bigger, With With fuch mad feas the daring * Gama fought, For many...many a dreadful night, Inceflant, labouring round the fiormy Cape; By bold ambition led, and bolder thirft Of gold. For then from ancient gloom emerg'd 1005... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 628 pages
...only between the t/opies. t Called by the failors the Ox-eye, being in appearance at lirft no bigger. With fuch mad feas the daring * Gama fought, For many a day,, and many a dreadful night, Inceffant, labouring round the flormy Cape ; By bold ambition led, and bolder thirft Of gold. For then... | |
 | John Bell - 1787 - 510 pages
...His broad-wing'd veffel drinks the whelming tide, Hid inthe bofom of the black abyfs. i000 Withfuch mad feas the daring Gama £ fought For many a day and many a dreadful night, InceflTant lab'ring round theftormy Cape, By bold Ambition led, and bolder thirft Of gold : for then... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 292 pages
...opprefs'd, His broad-wing'd veffel drinks the whelming tide, Hid in the bofom of the black abyfs. looo With fuch mad feas the daring * Gama fought, For many a day, and many a dreadful night, Inccflant, labouring round theftormji Cafe} By bold ambition led, and bolder thirft Of gold. For then... | |
 | Luís de Camões - 1791 - 494 pages
...tempeftuous feafon involves thefe feas, added all its horrors. Sometimes the ftorm drove them fbuthward, at other times they were obliged to ftand on the tack,...During During any gloomy interval of the ftorm, the failors, wearied out with fatigue, and abandoned to defpair, furrounded Gama, and implored him not... | |
 | James Thomson - 1793 - 300 pages
...broad-wing'd vessel drinks the whelming tide, Hid in the bosom of the black abyss. 1000 With such mad seas the daring GAMA fought, For many a day, and many a dreadful night, Incessant, lab'ring round the stormy Cape ; By bold ambition led, and bolder thirst Of gold. For then,... | |
 | James Thomson, Robert Heron - 1793 - 384 pages
...Gama was one of the firft European failors who boldly and fuccefsfully braved them. Jfithfuch madfeas the daring Gama. fought For many a day, and many a dreadful night 1 InceJJant, lah'ring, round thejlormy Cape By hold amhition led, and holder thirjl Of Go^.d b IN fpeaking... | |
 | 1794 - 954 pages
...broad-wing'd veflel drinks the whelming tide, Hid in the bofom of the black abyfs. With fuch mad feae the daring \ Gama fought, For many a day, and many a dreadful night, Inccfiant, labouring round th- ßertty Cafe ; Jiy bold ambition led, and bolder thirft Of gold. For... | |
 | Luís de Camões - 1798 - 520 pages
...fwelled like mountains in height, the fhips feemed now. heaved up to the * See the note, p. 58. vol. u. the clouds, and now appeared as precipitated by gulphy...fought For many a day, and many a dreadful night, Incefiant labouring round the ftormy Cape, By bold ambition led THOMSON. During any gloomy interval... | |
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With such mad seas the daring Gama fought, For many a day, and many a dreadful night, Incessant, labouring round the stormy Cape ; By bold ambition led, and bolder thirst Of gold. 
