 | 1900 - 608 pages
...anything else that has been written in English upon the most astonishing career in modern history : — ' The triumph and the vanity, The rapture of the strife,...earthquake voice of Victory, To thee the breath of life. * Miscellanies, Wordsworth and Byron, The sword, the sceptre, and that sway Which man seemed made but... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1814 - 54 pages
...them to adore Those Pagod things of sabre-sway, With fronts of brass, and feet of clay. С " 3 IV. The triumph, and the vanity, The rapture of the strife...Dark Spirit ! what must be The madness of thy memory ! V. The Desolator desolate ! The Victor overthrown ! The Arbiter of others' fate A Suppliant for his... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1814 - 378 pages
...them to adore Those Pagod things of sabre-sway, With fronts of brass, and feet of clay. [11] IV. 1 ' The triumph, and the vanity, .. : The rapture of the...; The sword, the sceptre, and that sway Which man seeni'd made but to obey, Wherewith renown was rife — All quelTd ! — Dark Spirit! what must be:... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1814 - 34 pages
...them to adore Those Pagod things of sabre-sway, With fronts of brass, and feet of clay. [ii 3 <IV. The triumph, and the vanity, - . The rapture: of the...The sword, the sceptre, and that sway./ Which man seeni'd made but to obey/ Wherewith renown was rife — All quell'd ! — Dark Spirit ! what must be... | |
 | Isaac Bailey - 1814 - 826 pages
...adore . Those Pagod things of sabre-sway, With fronts of brass, and feet of clar The triumph, land the vanity, The rapture of the strife ;* The earthquake...; The sword, the sceptre, and that sway Which man seem'il made but to obey, Wherewith renown was life — All quell'd — Dark spirit ! what must b»... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1814 - 98 pages
...fronts of brass, and feet of clay. tl IV. The triumph, and the vanity, The rapture of the strife ^o) The earthquake voice of victory, To thee the breath...; The sword, the sceptre, and that sway Which man seetn'd made but to obey, Wherewith renown was life — All quell'd — Dark spirit ! what must be... | |
 | 1814 - 680 pages
...again, That led them to adore Those Pagod things of sabre-sVa?, fronts of brass, and feet of clay. The triumph, and the vanity, The rapture of the strife...man seem'd made but to obey, "Wherewith renown was life — All quell'd — Dark spirit ! what must be The madness of thy memory '. The Desolator desolate!... | |
 | Joshua P. Slack - 1815 - 340 pages
...sabre -sway, With fronts of brass and feet of clay. IV. The triumph and the vanity, The rapture and the strife,* The earthquake voice of victory, To thee...; The sword, the sceptre, and that sway Which man seemed made but to obey, Wherewith renown was life, All quell'd-dark spirit ! what must be The madness... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1815 - 230 pages
...feet of clay. IV. The triumph, and the vanity, The rapture of the strife 1 — The earthquake shout of Victory, To thee the breath of life; The sword, the sceptre, and that sway Which man seemed made but to obey, Wherewith renown was rife— All quelled!—Dark Spirit! what must be The... | |
 | 1815 - 670 pages
...hazard, it is of all pursuits the most stirring and glorious. Abstracted from their consequences, * The triumph, and the vanity, « The rapture of the strife, — ' The earthquake voice of Victory,* must constitute a state of turbulent excitement in which we cart conceive some minds may find an appropriate... | |
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The triumph, and the vanity, The rapture of the strife — The earthquake voice of Victory, To thee the breath of life ; The sword, the sceptre, and that sway Which man... 
