 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...  Blackwood's Magazine - Side 4981848Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | 1818 - 638 sider
...huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war ; These arc thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into...empires, changed in all save thee— • Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were fre6, And many a tyrant since... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1835 - 606 sider
...wrote the following passages — • Though the ycsfy waves Confound and swallow navigation up.' ' These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake. They...Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.' With all due reverence for Partridge's maxim — de gtutibut — we cannot help maintaining that no... | |
 | DAVID WILLISON - 1818 - 572 sider
...leviathans, whose 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...empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since... | |
 | 1818 - 806 sider
...leviathans, whose 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...empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1818 - 648 sider
...leviathans, whose 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...empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since... | |
 | 1821 - 438 sider
...Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war ; These are thy toys, aid, as the snowy flake, 'They melt into thy yeast of waves,...empires, changed in all save thee— Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, where are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 sider
...leviathans, whose 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...Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. CLXxxn. Thy shires are empirrs, changed in all gave thec — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage,* what... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 176 sider
...oakliviathans, whose 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...waves , which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils CLXXXII. Thy shores are empires , changed in all save thee — Assyria , Greece , Rome , Carthage ,... | |
 | 1820 - 422 sider
...leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord ofthee, and arbiter of war; These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They...Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thec — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they i Thy waters wasted them while they were free,... | |
 | Friedrich Johann Jacobsen - 1820 - 796 sider
...vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war; These are thy toys, and, as tlie snowy ßake, They melt into thy yeast of waves , which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. 43* 675 Thy shores are empires , changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what... | |
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