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“Alas, by what rude fate Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet, Then part forever on their courses fleet.”

Courses Forever Our Lives Fate Sea Ships Instant Rude Alas Ships At Sea

Book:The Poetical Works of Edmund Clarence Stedman

Source: The Poetical Works of Edmund Clarence Stedman

“I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth. My high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me.”

Littles Left Boys Sea Pride Summer Glory Mercy Depth Broke Streams Length Swim Weary Rude Wanton Bladder

Author:William Shakespeare

“But as Shakespeare’s Richard II boasts, ‘Not all the water in the rough rude sea/Can wash the balm off from an anointed king.”

Water Sea Kings Rough Rude Boast Richard Ii

Book:Tudor: Passion. Manipulation. Murder. The Story of England's Most Notorious Royal Family

Source: Tudor: Passion. Manipulation. Murder. The Story of England's Most Notorious Royal Family

“We remove mountains, and make seas our smooth highway; nothing can resist us. We war with rude Nature; and, by our resistless engines, come off always victorious, and loaded with spoils.”

War Sea Mountain Remove Engines Smooth Rude Highways Spoil Loaded Move Mountains

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“Dwellers by the sea cannot fail to be impressed by the sight of its ceaseless ebb and flow, and are apt, on the principles of that rude philosophy of sympathy and resemblance... to trace a subtle relation, a secret harmony, between its tides and the life of man... The belief that most deaths happen at ebb tide is said to be held along the east coast of England from Northumberland to Kent.”

Men Said Philosophy Happens Belief Secret Principles Failing Sea Flow Sight England Relation Harmony East Subtle Tides Impressed Rude Coast Resemblance East Coast Ebb And Flow Dwellers Kent

Author:James G. Frazer

“Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose to the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude, and in the calmest and most stillest night, with all appliances and means to boot, deny it to a king?”

Giving Mean Night Hours Sleep Boys Sea Kings Deny Boots Wet Rude Repose Uneasy Appliances

Author:William Shakespeare