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“Some hoisted out the boats, and there was one
That begged Pedrillo for an absolution
Who told him to be damn'd,--in his confusion.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto II, st. 44)
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“Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell--
Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave,--
Then some leap'd overboard with fearful yell,
As eager to anticipate their grave.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto II, st. 52)
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“Again she plunges! hark! a second shock
Bilges the splitting vessel on the rock;
Down on the vale of death, with dismal cries,
The fated victims shuddering cast their eyes
In wild despair; while yet another stroke
With strong convulsion rends the solid oak:
Ah Heaven!--behold her crashing ribs divide!
She loosens, parts, and spreads in ruin o'er the tide.”
William Falconer Quotes Source: Shipwreck (canto III, l. 642)
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“And fast through the midnight dark and drear,
Through the whistling sleet and snow,
Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept
Towards the reef of Norman's Woe.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes Source: Wreck of the Hesperus (st. 15)
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“Each man makes his own shipwreck.
[Lat., Naufragium sibi quisque facit.]”
Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan) Quotes Source: Pharsalia (I, 499)
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“Through the black night and driving rain
A ship is struggling, all in vain,
To live upon the stormy main;--
Miserere Domine!”
Adelaide Anne Procter Quotes Source: The Storm
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“But hark! what shriek of death comes in the gale,
And in the distant ray what glimmering sail
Bends to the storm?--Now sinks the note of fear!
Ah! wretched mariners!--no more shall day
Unclose his cheering eye to light ye on your way!”
Mrs. Ann Ward Radcliffe Quotes Source: Mysteries of Udolpho--Shipwreck
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“In few, they hurried us aboard a bark,
Bore us some leagues to sea; where they prepared
A rotten carcass of a butt, not rigged,
Nor tackle, sail, nor mast; the very rats
Instinctively have quit it.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The Tempest (Prospero at I, ii)
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“O, I have suffered
With those that I saw suffer! a brave vessel
(Who had no doubt some noble creature in her)
Dashed all to pieces! O, the cry did knock
Against my very heart! Poor souls, they perished!”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The Tempest (Miranda at I, ii)
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“Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways
of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks.”
George Bernard Shaw Quotes Source: Heartbreak House (at III)
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“He wrongly accuses Neptune, who makes shipwreck a second time.
[Lat., Inprobe Neptunum accusat, qui iterum naufragium facit.]”
Syrus (Publilius Syrus) Quotes Source: Sententiae (l. 264)
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“Here and there they are seen swimming in the vast flood.
[Lat., Apparent rari nantes in gurgite vasto.]”
Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil) Quotes Source: The Aeneid (I, 118)
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“Or shipwrecked, kindles on the coast
False fires, that others may be lost.”
William Wordsworth Quotes Source: To the Lady Fleming
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