 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...  The New Speaker. With an Essay on Elocution - Page 238by John Connery - 1861 - 395 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1839 - 518 pages
...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 pages
...275 4. Thy shores arc empires, changed in all save thee, — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were...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 pages
...Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee— Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage — what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were...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 pages
...— 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 pages
...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... | |
 | William Sidney Gibson - 1840 - 328 pages
...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... | |
 | sir Charles Lyell (bart.) - 1840 - 518 pages
...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... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1841 - 474 pages
...Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they { Thy waters wasted them while they were...Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. CLXXXHI. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests ; in all time,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 pages
...shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they '.VV ers At airy distance, with majestic motion, A ruler...such she was ; — herdaughters had their dowers thon, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' pby — . Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow —... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - 1841 - 410 pages
...shores are em'pires, | chang'd in all save thee' — | Assyria,| Greece',| Rome',| Carthage,| what are they,? | Thy waters wasted them while they were...stranger, slave', or savage ; | their decay , Has dri'd up realms to deserts : — | not so thou', | Unchangeable, | save to thy wild waves' play, —... | |
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