 The armaments which thunder-strike 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 Edinburgh Magazine - Page 2241818Full view - About this book
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1849 - 348 pages
...sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown. 3. The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built...flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar t Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. 4. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save... | |
 | William Russell - 1849 - 310 pages
...He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown ! The armaments, which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built...ribs make Their clay Creator the vain title take Of Jord of thee, and arbiter of war — These are thy toys ; and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy... | |
 | Alexander Melville Bell - 1849 - 356 pages
...thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain! The armaments which thunderstrike the walls of rock-built cities The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take of lord of thee Time'writes no wrinkles on thine azure brow Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form glasses... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1851 - 352 pages
...petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth : — there let him lay. CLXXXI. The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built...Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. CLXXXII. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 pages
...haply lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth : there let him lar. The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built...bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble in their capital! ; The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord... | |
 | 1852 - 782 pages
...mark the scenes of vanish'd war, Actium, Lepanto, fatal Trafalgar." Childe Harold, Canto II. St. 40. " The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay...Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar." Childe Harold, Canto IV. St. 181. " Nelson was once Britannia's god of war, And still should be so,... | |
 | 1852 - 1170 pages
...fruits of a triumph from us. ** The oak leviathans, whose huge rihs make Their clay creator the proud title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war, These...Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar." And then he proceeds, according to my view of the passage, and according to the French translator's... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 322 pages
...haply lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth—there let him lay. The armaments which thunder-strike the walls Of rock-built...whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title tako Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war: These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into... | |
 | 1852 - 650 pages
...The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator tile vain title take Of lord of tliee, and arbiter of war ; These are thy toys, and, as the...Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar." C/iilde Harold, Canto IV. St. 181. *' Nelson was once Britanuia's god of war, And still should be so,... | |
 | 1852 - 196 pages
...lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth : — there let him lay. The armaments which thunder-strike the walls Of rock-built...capitals ; The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make ADDRESS TO THE OCEAN. 107 Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war... | |
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