...white foam flew, The furrow followed free ; We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea. Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down, 'Twas...in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Itight up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon. Day after day, day after day, We stuck,...

...white foam flew, The furrow followed free ; We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea. Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down, 'Twas...And we did speak only to break The silence of the aea ! All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger...

...corresponding portions of the ocean, without breezes; BO accusjjtely described in the 'Ancient Mariner' — " All in a hot and copper sky, The "bloody sun, at noon,...above the mast did stand. No "bigger than the moon." 156 Q. Do not all these streams raise the surface of the sea ? A. By no means ; the water goes back...

...of things is well described by the poet. " Down dropped the breeze, the sails dropped down, 'T was sad as sad could be, And We did speak only to break Tins silence of the sea ! " All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody sun at noon, Right up above the...

...consequent thirst, brought very forcibly to our recollection the sufferings of Colridge's ancient mariner: " All in a hot and copper sky The bloody sun at noon, 1 Right up above the mast did stand No bigger than the moon. Water, water, every where And all the...

...description of the horrors they then endured, brought vividly to my mind the lines of Coleridge: — "Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down,— '...All in a hot and copper sky The bloody sun at noon Eight up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the moon. Day after day, day after day, We stuck,...

...first that ever burst Into that silent sea. " Down dropped the breeze ; the sails dropped down ; 'Iwas sad as sad could be : And we did speak only to break...All in a hot and copper sky The bloody sun at noon Bight up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the moon. " Day after day, day after day, We stuck...

...first that ever burst Into that silent sea. " Down dropp'd the breeze ; the sails dropp'd down ; 'T was sad as sad could be : And we did speak only to break...silence of the sea ! " All in a hot and copper sky i The bloody sun at noon Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the moon. " Day after day,...

...(Seutifdj [Dutch] Teutonic, German. gigantifcfy gigantic. * So Coleridge, in the "Ancient Mariner": — " All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody sun at noon Bight up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the moon." A German would have said tupfcricJjt....

...Equatorial Doldrums " is — it looks wrong, but it isn't — a region of baffling winds and calms, where " All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above the mast doth stand, No bigger than the moon — " and the unhappy emigrants from Europe to Australia who survive,...