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 a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms... History of the English Language and Literature - Side 201av Robert Chambers - 1837 - 328 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
| Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1839 - 488 sider
...discourse. " Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free,...— Such as Creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now !" LECTURE II. 1. Introductory observations. 2. Extinction of animals. 3. Animals extirpated by human... | |
| Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1839 - 518 sider
...discourse. " Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free,...play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — Sttch as Creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now !" LECTURE II. 1. Introductory observations.... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1839 - 322 sider
...4. Thy shores arc empires, changed in all save thee, — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free,...so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play, — Tini9 writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow, — Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now.... | |
| 1839 - 320 sider
...Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee— Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage — what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free,...not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' playlime writes no wrinkles on thy azure brow iich as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. Thou... | |
| Samuel Kirkham - 1839 - 362 sider
...— Assyria', Greece', Rome', Carthage', what are they'? Thy waters wasted them while they were/ree', And many a tyrant since'; their shores obey' The stranger',...wild waves' play' — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azureh brdw' — Such' . . as creation's dawn beheld', thou rollest now'. Thou glorious mirror', where... | |
| John William Carleton - 1847 - 708 sider
...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—...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... | |
| sir Charles Lyell (bart.) - 1840 - 518 sider
...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... | |
| William Sidney Gibson - 1840 - 328 sider
...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... | |
| 1837 - 396 sider
...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... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1989 - 512 sider
...recover, and the measure would at once be the means of placing a superior in his shoes. Chapter XVI. "Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed-in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark heaving;-boundless,... | |
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