roll quotes

Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  The Vanity of Human Wishes, l.345^6.

'Courage!' he said, and pointed toward the land, 'This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon.' In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seeme'  d always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Ulysses Breathing like one that hath a weary dream.

-Tennyson
 Poems,'The Lotos^Eaters', l.1^6.