 | R T. Linnington - 1833 - 440 pages
...which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee— Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are...slave, or savage! their decay Has dried up realms to deserts:—not so thou Unchangeable save to thy wide waves play— Time writes no wrinkle on thine... | |
 | Abby Jane Morrell - 1833 - 260 pages
...Thy shores are empires, changed in all, save thee, Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they t Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many...stranger, slave or savage; their decay Has dried up realms of deserts : not so thou ; Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play, Time writes no wrinkle on thine... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - Geology - 1833 - 474 pages
...noble bard to the ocean is therefore as philosophical, as it is highly poetical and sublime: — " Unchangeable, save to thy wild waves' play, Time writes...azure brow — Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollcst now!" BYRON. portant science, to Mr. Bakewell's Introduction, as one of the most popular, lucid,... | |
 | James Melville M'Culloch - 1834 - 320 pages
...Alexandrine line, is occasionally introduced into heroic verse, especially at the close of a passage; as, " Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow— Such as | Creation's dawn | beheld], thou rolljest nowl." 2. A shorter Iambic verse is made from the former, by cutting off one Iambus, or two... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1835 - 482 pages
...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...thine azure brow; Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. 273 CHAPTER IX. CAUSES OF EARTHQUAKES AND VOLCANOS. Intimate connexion between the causes... | |
 | sir Charles Lyell (bart.) - 1835 - 494 pages
...empires which have flourished and fallen the borders of the ocean with its own unduer stability. —— Their decay Has dried up realms to deserts : —not...waves' play, Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure browt Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest Dvw. CHIIPE HAROLD, Cat CHAPTER XVII. ELEVATION... | |
 | John Pierpont - Rare books - 1835 - 496 pages
...they ? Has dried up realms to deserts :—not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play— Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many...tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave, ot savage; their decay Time writes no wrinkles on thine azure brow— Such as creation's dawn beheld,... | |
 | Jesse Olney - Readers - 1836 - 350 pages
...pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.! 5. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee— Assyria, Greeee, Rome, Carthage, what are they! Thy waters wasted them...azure brow— Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. 6. Thou, glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests ; in all... | |
 | Harp - English poetry - 1836 - 380 pages
...which mar Alike the Armada's pride or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee— Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are...slave, or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts:—not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play— Time writes no wrinkle on thine... | |
 | Moses Severance - American literature - 1836 - 312 pages
...the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake, 4. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee. Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they...shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay H»« ■'-ied up realms to deserts;—not so thou, „iiangeable save to thy wild waves' play :—... | |
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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 to deserts :—not so thou, Unchangeable... 
