 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1990 - 594 pàgines
...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...Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. CHAPTER XXVI. Magnitude of the subterranean changes produced by earthquakes at great depths below the... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1990 - 594 pàgines
...unchanged stability. Their decay Has dried up realms to deserts : — not so Hum, Unchangeable, gave to thy wild waves' play : Time writes no wrinkle on...thine azure brow ; Such as creation's dawn beheld, them rollest now. CHILDE HAROLD, Canto iv. CHAPTER XXVI. Magnitude of the subterranean changes produced... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pàgines
...vain; Man marks the earth with ruin, — his control Stops with the shore; 3 Time writes no wrinkles Still falls the RainDark as the world of man, black as our lo^s Blind 4 Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime, The image of Eternity, — the throne Of the Invisible!... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - 1994 - 884 pàgines
...Assyria, Greece, Borne, Carthage, what are they Г Thy waters wash'd them power while they were free, n the Mas dried Dp realms to deserts : — not so thou; — Unchangeable, save to thy wild waves' play, Time... | |
 | Paul H. Fry - 1995 - 276 pàgines
...unknown" (4.179), and furthermore Byron seems to admit that the ocean alone is unfurrowed by mortality: "Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — /Such as Creation's dawn beheld, Thou rollest now" (4.182). But omnipotence of thought really has no limits. Suddenly the ocean resembles a Byronic hero:... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1996 - 868 pàgines
...save 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, slave, or savage; their decay 1635 Has dried up realms to deserts: - not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play Time... | |
 | Rodney Farnsworth - 2001 - 360 pàgines
...Greece. Rome. Carthage. what are thev? Thy waters washed their power while they were free. And manj a tyrant since: their shores obey The stranger. slave. or savage: their decay lIas dried up realms to desarts [...]. Jerome McGann pinpoints the great importance of this stanza... | |
 | G. Wilson Knight - 2002 - 324 pàgines
...Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wash'd them power while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger,...Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. 150 Thou glorious minor, where the Almighty's form Classes itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or... | |
 | Paolo Chiarini, Walter Hinderer - 2006 - 500 pàgines
...ewig, er kennt keine Ruinen, hat keine Geschichte und ist so herrlich wie am ersten Schöpfungstag: Not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves'...play Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow Such äs creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. (182) Steffi Roettgen Tra „Hauptstadt der Welt" e „Deutsches... | |
 | Lucy Maud Montgomery, Ephraim Weber - 2006 - 313 pàgines
...'Who can contemplate Fame through clouds unfold The star which rises o'er her steep, nor climb?' — 'Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow, Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now' — But I am forgetting myself. It is a letter I am writing not an essay. To go from Byron to Wilson... | |
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Thy waters wasted them while they were free. And many a tyrant since : their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts; — not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves 
