| 1836 - 418 pages
...the left the city our pilot was discharged. THE SEA. " Roll on, thon deep and dark blue ocean roll ! Unchangeable save to thy wild waves play — Time...Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now." — Ckilde Harold . All sail was now crowded upon the ship, as the Captain was anxious to double the... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1837 - 342 pages
...Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they 1 Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many...Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1837 - 350 pages
...Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what lire they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many...Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 982 pages
...thee— Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are thr> ?vl Thy waters wasted them while they were fret-, \ \ \ \ Y Z Y \ \ \ Y Y Y browSuch as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. CLXXXJU. Thou gloiious mirror, where the Almighty's... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1837 - 356 pages
...Carthage, what arc they ? * Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since j their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage ;...wrinkle on thine azure brow — Such as creation's dawn beheldj thou rollest now. 1 [When Lord Byron wrote this stanza, he had, no doubt, the following passage... | |
| Sir Charles Lyell - 1837 - 568 pages
...empires which have flourished and fallen on the borders of the ocean with its own unchanged stability. . Their decay Has dried up realms to deserts : — not...play : Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow ; Snob u creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. CHILLI E HAROLD, Canto IT. CHAPTER XVII. ELEVATION... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 480 pages
...Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they .\2 \ Thy waters wasted them while they were free, Aud many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger,...their decay Has dried up realms to deserts: — not so thon, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow —... | |
| Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 pages
...Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they 1 Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many...beheld, thou rollest now. 6. Thou, glorious mirror, \vhere the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests ; in all time, (Calm or convulsed, in breeze,... | |
| Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many...Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed... | |
| William Martin - 1838 - 368 pages
...shores are empires, changed in all save thee, — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many...Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. CLXXXIII. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests, in all time,... | |
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