 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1839 - 322 pàgines
...huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war ; These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into...Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. RE!, I (; I ON. 275 4. Thy shores arc empires, changed in all save thee, — Assyria, Greece, Rome,... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1839 - 522 pàgines
...Byron in the following sublime apostrophe to the Ocean, with which I will conclude this discourse. " Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee —...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... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1839 - 488 pàgines
...Byron in the following sublime apostrophe to the Ocean, with which I will conclude this discourse. " Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee —...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... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1847 - 708 pàgines
...the phrase that were born of the occasion, when thus I looked and thought upon thee, Eternal Sea ! Thy shores are empires, changed in all, save thee...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,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1841 - 474 pàgines
...huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war ; These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into...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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 pàgines
...huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war ; These are usic meets not always now the ear: Those days are gone — CLXXXIL Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - 1841 - 410 pàgines
...which mar, Ali/ce, the Armada's0 pride, | or spoils of Trafalgar^ | Thy shores are em'pires, | chang'd in all save thee' — | Assyria,| Greece',| Rome',|...are they,? | Thy waters wasted them while they were free', | And many a tyrant since, ; | their shores obey , The stranger, slave', or savage ; | their... | |
 | Anna Eliza Bray - 1841 - 996 pàgines
...unknell'd, uncomn'd, and unknown ! • • • • • Thy shores are empires, changed in all tare 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 Has... | |
 | George Newenham Wright - 1840 - 396 pàgines
...picture of the fortunes of the great cities and kingdoms that once stood on and occupied her shores. " Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee, Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, where are they ?" The Mediterranean, Mare Intemum of the ancients, extends about two thousand three... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 pàgines
...The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake, And monarehs g life and light, — so shown Not on those summits...power Pass« the strength of storms in their most of The Grot'f. Nemi is but an evening'* ridn from the comfortable inn of Albano. 3 The whole declivity... | |
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The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war: These... 
