 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 - Page 4981848Full view - About this book
 | John Hall - 1845 - 354 pages
...arbiter of war' ; — These are thy toysv, and', as the snowy flake1, They melt into thy yeast of wavesv, which mar' Alike the Armada's pride', or spoils of...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'... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...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 into the yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires,... | |
 | General reciter - 1845 - 348 pages
...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 into the yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pages
...whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war ; 220 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... | |
 | Gem book - 1846 - 398 pages
...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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 848 pages
...leviathans, whose huge ribs make The ir clay creator the vain title toko Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war; ere, in a moment, we may plunge our yean In fatal peni yeusi of waves, which mar Alike tho Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. CLXXXIl. Thy shores are... | |
 | 1847 - 312 pages
...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... | |
 | Hugh Gawthrop - 1847 - 184 pages
...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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 pages
...the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war ; These are thy toys, and, as the snowy Sake, e : of The Graft. N'eml Is but an evening*! ride from the comfortable inn of Albano. 3 The whole declivity... | |
 | 1847 - 454 pages
...thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble in their capitals, These are thy toys, and as the snowy flake, They melt into the rest of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires,... | |
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