Despite his cursing them as " slimy things " earlier in the poem (" Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs / upon the slimy sea "), he suddenly sees their true beauty and blesses them (" a spring of love gush'd from my heart and I bless'd them unaware "); suddenly, as he manages to pray, the albatross falls from his neck and his guilt is partially expiated.

Despite Graham's efforts to call him back, Merrill goes up the stairs and manages to hold the door by climbing up a chair and putting his hands at the door.

Despite Chauvelin's best efforts, the Englishman manages to escape by throwing pepper in Chavelin's face.

Despite a few mishaps, including several mischievous escaped monkeys, he manages to survive the experience.

Despite the setback, Max manages to catch up to Bradley and wins the race by a nose and receives the grand-prize trophy.

Despite this, in the second series of I ’ m Alan Partridge he manages to sustain a romantic relationship with Sonja, a scatterbrained 33-year-old immigrant from Ukraine who is quite devoted to him.

Despite Rose-Ann's resistance, Gordon manages to take Selina away, and Ol ' Pa stops Rose-Ann, telling her that Selina is not a kid anymore.

Despite his cowardice, and tendency to run from any kind of danger or fight, Rimmer is the member of the crew most willing to kill, preferably in the safest and most cowardly way possible, although, due to a mixture of cowardice, and the fact that for much of the series he cannot physically harm anyone, he seldom manages to.

Despite his efforts to hinder his son, Katadreuffe manages to pass the examination.

Despite Ford's engines being well regarded for their ease of service, the Endura-E has a very awkward placing for its oil filter, which is quite high up, at the back of the engine and facing from left to right rather than pointing downwards or out – meaning it is very difficult to access from underneath the car ( without a mechanic's ramp ), and despite being very short, the can-type oil filter still manages to protrude past the tip of the adjacent starter motor, meaning it is very difficult to remove using chain-type grips.

Despite being given a decrepit and underpowered ship ( the Soyokaze ), thanks to brilliant strokes of luck, Tylor manages to destroy a patrol group.

Despite the tremendous blood loss, Franklin manages to muster enough strength to crawl out of downbelow and into the Zocalo where security officers take him to medlab.

Despite numerous setbacks, Deadshot manages to carry out the assassination, while Waller confronts the General personally.

Despite his blindness, he manages to gun down a hitman tailing him with the aid of a chiclet boy.

Despite the best efforts of Angel, Spike, and Wesley Wyndam-Pryce, she manages to fight off all three of them and open the portal to where her army is waiting, but soon she discovers it was destroyed long ago.

Despite several close calls, Draisen manages to outwit Crumb and the police.

Despite her incompetence, Harmony manages to prove a ' sort of ' asset to the team, ' torturing ' Eve ( i. e. hitting Eve in the face a few times ) to get information, helping Wesley search for information about Knox's plans, and aiding Lorne in protecting Eve from her replacement as their liaison to the Senior Partners.

Despite this, he manages to win.

Despite her powers and consciousness being heavily sedated by Felix Faust's spells, Isis manages to use her powers to create a trail of flowers ( including a batch in the shape of the Shazam lightning bolt symbol ) to lead Adam to where Faust has been holding her captive.

Despite the money thrown at the project, Oberst considers The Uneventful Vacation — a loud, sometimes brash alt-rock album that still manages to encompass Oberst's awkward but powerful personal music style — to be " somewhat of a failure musically.

Despite being initially overwhelmed by Bug instincts, he retains human intelligence and eventually manages to overcome these instincts, sacrificing his life to save humans.

Despite harsh disciplining she manages to spread rumors and doubt in the White Tower about Elaida's suitability as Amyrlin and maintain her dignity.

Despite terror, starvation, and general bewilderment, Simon manages to find sanctuary with the help of various human and inhuman fellow-travelers.

Despite this, and despite the fact that many of Wolverine's other mutant attributes were weakened, he manages to hold his own against Cyber briefly.

Despite several years of front-page stories, the average citizen was unable to get a complete picture of McCarthy until he saw on the television screen what the reporters had been seeing all along but had no effective way of communicating.

Despite his proclamations that, " I like a jealous wife ," " We get on so well together ( because ) we don't have illusions about each other ," and, " I wouldn't give you two cents for a dame without a temper ," it was a highly destructive relationship.

Despite fears by the Linux gaming community that Id Tech 5 would not be ported to that platform, Timothee Besset in his blog has stated " I'll be damned if we don't find the time to get Linux builds done ".

Despite Ciano's efforts to persuade Ribbentrop to put off the attack on Poland until 1942, so as to allow the Italians time to get ready for war, Ribbentrop was adamant that Germany had no interest in a diplomatic solution of the Danzig question and only wanted a war to wipe Poland off the map.

Despite the political campaigns launched in order to put Sardinian on an equal footing with Italian, and any emotive value linked to Sardinian identity, the sociolinguistic situation in Sardinia due to several reasons, mainly political and socioeconomic ( the gradual depopulation of the island's interior and rural exodus towards more urbanized and industrialized areas, the forced use of Italian presented as a prerequisite to get jobs and as one of the keys to social advancement, the barriers to communication between the dialectal varieties etc.

Despite this, the guest in room 1 goes to the guest in room 2 to get a cigar.

Despite the perceived negative connotation to driving in Albania, most vehicles manage not to get into accidents simply by following their own way through the chaotic traffic.

Despite losing a long battle with the Associated Press, called " Rox " by UPI employees, United Press International's legacy was recognized by AP when it made the UPI mantra " get it first but get it right " a cornerstone of a branding campaign launched on ap. org.

Despite the Dukes often coming to his rescue ( see below ), Hogg forever seems to have an irrational dislike of the clan, particularly Bo and Luke, often accusing them of spying on him, robbing or planning to rob him, and other supposedly nefarious actions as he believes they are generally out to get him.

Despite Spidey's protests, Jameson assigns him a pair of new partners to get him " back on track " — Bobby ( Iceman ) and Angel ( Firestar ).

Look at those tracks, I'm gonna drive my motorcycle up those saggy glad bags, get your sh * t together, sucking a good stiff will do you good " Despite all this, as well as the fact that Tesco Vee had performed a song called " Morrissey Must Die " about the Smiths ' self-identified asexual frontman and referred to him as a " fag ," they later contributed a cover of the song " How Soon Is Now?

Despite various attempts to get her out, such as the Carnation Plot in September, Marie Antoinette refused when the plots for her escape were brought to her attention.

Despite the College's original intention to get the architects to build another copy of Second Court, plans were eventually accepted for a fashionably romantic building in the ' Gothic ' style.

Despite being shy, Holst was fascinated by people and society, and had always believed that the best way to learn about a city was to get lost in it.

Despite the basic importance of the foreign language requirement, a completely dialogueless film such as Le Bal ( 1983 ) was still able to get nominated in the Foreign Language Film category.

" Despite escaping the critical mauling, Pfeiffer's agent later admitted that her association with the film meant that " she couldn't get any jobs.

Despite accepting the above arrangements, Stalin dominated the conference, using the Soviet victory at the Battle of Kursk and military might, as well as key positions on the German front, to get his way.

For Christmas 2011, a new single seater mod came available. The F2 1967 Mod provide new accurate cars shapes, drivers, car sounds and physics. The Formula 2 physics were intended to get close racing online, with most of the cars sharing the same Ford Cosworth FVA 1600cc engine. Despite this, as others GPL mods, the F2 mod benefit of the extended 11 different cars slots with their individual handling. In 1967, drivers took part in no less than 23 Formula 2 races.

Despite her straggly appearance and repeated failures to get a break, she understands that the music business is a business, and when her opportunity comes, she is ready.

Despite their negative comments for Waluigi, GameDaily ranked him in the 10th slot on GameDaily's top 10 Nintendo characters that deserve their own games list ; the site explained that " he gets the shaft worse than Luigi, and should at least get his own puzzle game ".

Despite the area's rich ore deposits, investment in mining in the Neihart region remained low because it was too expensive to get ore out.

Despite not going over the 15, 000 population barrier, Marlin did get many tourists from around the country for its famous mineral water, which was believed to heal any sickness or pain, by bathing in it.

Despite the struggle to get food and shelter in those early days, John Bennion described Field ’ s Bottom in these words:

Despite knowing the correct film, Stempel gives the wrong answer, allowing Van Doren to get a question he previously answered while in Enright's offices ; he provides the winning response.