| John William Carleton - 1847 - 708 pągines
...Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage — what are they ? Thy waten washed them while they yet were free, And many a tyrant since their shores obey— The stranger,...dried up realms to deserts. Not so thou, Unchangeable ever, to the wild wave's play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — Such as creation's... | |
| William Sidney Gibson - 1840 - 328 pągines
...that remains unchanging amidst the perpetual changes of the land, and to which Byron sublimely sang— Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow, Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now ! This phenomenon is obvious, not only as regards those strata of marine formation which occur the... | |
| sir Charles Lyell (bart.) - 1840 - 518 pągines
...decay Has dried up realms to deserts; — qot so them, Unchangeable, save to thy wild waves' play i Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow ; Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now, CHIIPS HAROJ.D, Canto !v. CHAPTER XVIII. ELEVATION AND SUBSIDENCE OF LAND WITHOUT EARTHQUAKES. Changes... | |
| Anna Eliza Bray - 1841 - 996 pągines
...thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger,...creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests ; in all time, Calm or convuls'd — in... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1841 - 474 pągines
...thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they { Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger,...Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. CLXXXHI. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests ; in all time,... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 pągines
...— Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they '.VV Thy waters wasted them while they were free, ruler of the waters and their powers : And such she was ; — herdaughters had their dowers thon, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' pby — . Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow —... | |
| Andrew Comstock - 1841 - 410 pągines
...Assyria,| Greece',| Rome',| Carthage,| what are they,? | Thy waters wasted them while they were free', | And many a tyrant since, ; | their shores obey , The...stranger, slave', or savage ; | their decay , Has dri'd up realms to deserts : — | not so thou', | Unchangeable, | save to thy wild waves' play, —... | |
| 1842 - 480 pągines
...thee— Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger,...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 — in... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 pągines
...— Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? * Thy waters wasted them while they were free, all, A shock to one — a thunderbolt to all. П....Russians' slave. madman to whom he speaks — the drea cLxxxni. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests ; in all time,... | |
| 1837 - 396 pągines
...return.' THE SEA. " Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean roll! ******** Unchangeable save to ^hy wild waves play— Time writes no wrinkle on thine...brow— Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now."—Childe Harold. All sail was now crowded upon the ship, as the Captain was anxious to double... | |
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