 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2002 - 260 psl.
...exotic, continues in all editions to reek of the village churchyard: About, about, in reel and rout, The Death-fires danced at night; The water, like a witch's oils, Burnt green and blue and white. The OED gives no previous authority for death-fires, a kind of will-of-the-wisp seen over graves, already... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2003 - 356 psl.
...About, about, in reel and rout The death-fires danced at night; The water, like a witch's oils, 130 Burnt green, and blue and white. And some in dreams...he had followed us From the land of mist and snow. The ship hath been suddenly becalmed. And the Albatross begins to be avenged. A Spirit had followed... | |
 | Roberto Franzosi - 2004 - 506 psl.
...be! / Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs / Upon the slimy sea. / About, about, in reel and rout / The death-fires danced at night; / The Water, like...a witch's oils, / Burnt green, and blue and white. These beautiful verses are the product of Coleridge's poetic imagination.7 But reality was often ever... | |
 | Ross Greig Woodman - 2005 - 297 psl.
...5.137) are at the same time a 'bed of glittering light' diffused 'over half the wilderness' (5.128-9). ('The water, like a witch's oils / Burnt green, and blue and white' [129-30], writes Coleridge in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.) The 'mind in creation' inhabiting a... | |
 | Antonio D. Tillis - 2005 - 163 psl.
..."silent sea" and the crew dying of thirst, another frequently postulated source of myth comes into play: "'some in dreams assured were / Of the Spirit that plagued us so'" (CPW, 1:191). The ancients, as is clear from Cicero's De divinatione or even from the story in Genesis... | |
 | William Roetzheim - 2006 - 760 psl.
...should be! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs upon the slimy sea. About, about, in reel and rout the death-fires danced at night; the water, like a...of mist and snow. And every tongue, through utter drought, was withered at the root; we could not speak, no more than if we had been choked with soot.... | |
 | Benjamin Ifor Evans - 2006 - 520 psl.
...should be! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea. About, about, in reel and rout The death-fires danced at night; The water, like a witch's oils, Burnt green, and blue and white. » (Sir Walter Scott, 1771-1832) ^W^M^te^ ° < (The Lay of the Last Minstrel, 1805) fflfe Border, 1802-03)... | |
 | Jonathan Feinstein - 2006 - 592 psl.
...Works, p. 53): Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea. About, about, in reel and rout The death-fires danced at night; The water, like a witch's oils, Burnt green, and blue, and white. The last line, with its vivid colors, calls to mind the passage from Captain Cook quoted above; the... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 psl.
...should be! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea. About, about, in reel and rout The death-fires danced at night; The water, like a witch's oils, Burnt green, and blue and white. A Spirit had followed them; one of the invisible inhabitants of this planet, neither departed souls... | |
 | Mohammad Aslam - 2006 - 224 psl.
...move towards the pebbled shore So do our minutes hasten to their end. Below are given some examples: The water like a witch's oils Burnt green, and blue and white -Coleridge The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds... | |
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Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot; O Christ! That ever this should be! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea! About, about, in reel and rout, The death-fires danced at night: The water, like a witch's oils, Burnt green, and... 
