...disappointed, but not despairing. But when they shook the thirty pieces of silver at you, you took them. A life on the ocean wave, a home on the rolling deep. Yes, this [a scull] was once ambition's airy hall, the dome of thought, the palace of the soul.—Byron....

...come in the far distant future, when you can hear, without shuddering, your sweetheart or wife sing " A life on the ocean wave, a home on the rolling deep." You look at the big ditch, and dimly perceive some beauty and grandeur, and have enlarged views of...

...wonder that other more militant sufferer wanted to live only to thrash the unfeeling -rogue who wrote " A life on the ocean wave, a home on the rolling deep." Our steamer is a screw, and she has wriggled us into screws too. She rolls like a revolving auger,...

...could keep me at this hum-drum work, nothing but write, write, from morning till night. Oh for " ' A life on the ocean wave, A home on the rolling deep.' " And he went through the song with spirit, as if his whole heart were in the words. " I wish you could...

...fire, and a coal, which had just popped out of the grate lay smoking on the hearth. LIGHT-SHIPS. " A LIFE on the ocean wave, a home on the rolling deep," may be jolly enough under certain circumstances : only to be really pleasant and comfortable the ocean...

...the Sea." 113 Chap. XX.— May and December 119 Chap. XX [.—Public Opinion - 124 Chap. XXII. — "A Life on the Ocean Wave: a Home on the Rolling Deep." 129 PAGE Chap. XXIII.—" An Old Man went a-wooing a Maiden Fair and Young." 135 Chap. XXIV.— Rejected...

...inward. Little did they think now of that which they had recently been celebrating so joyously : — "A life on the ocean wave, A home on the rolling deep, Where the scattered waters rare, And the winds — and the wi-iii-inds — and the w,-iiiiiii-nda their...

...lawyer's office — In a mercantile way — In a ship builder's yard — Don't like either — Prefers " A life on the ocean wave, a home on the rolling deep" — As an apprentice boy on board ship — Feelingson embarking — Regret, shame and fear — Outward...

...same time — and walked proudly 32 back to Seacombe, singing, as he went, his favourite song :— " A life on the ocean wave, A home on the rolling deep, Where tUe scattered waters rave And the winds their revels keep ; Like an engle caged, I pine, On this...

...thoughts to her steering, and to catching pieces of sea-weed as they floated past, while she hummed, 'A life on the ocean wave, a home on the rolling deep.' He was silent for a long time, not trusting himself to speak. The twilight was dying away, and the...