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
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 pages
...CLXXXH. 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. cLxxxni. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests ; in all time,... | |
| 1862 - 512 pages
...the* — Assyria, Greece. Rome, Carthage, what are they 1 Thy waters wasted them while they were frw, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger,...waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure browSuch as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form... | |
| John Wilson - 1842 - 360 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 free,...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... | |
| Samuel Kirkham - 1842 - 386 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',...decay' Has dried up realms to deserts': — not so £/*««', Unchangeable', save to thy wild waves' play' — Time writes 710 wrinkle on thine azure*'... | |
| 1842 - 416 pages
...stanza. Again, " 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." What connection between these two facts ? " Time writes no wrinkle on thy azure brow, Such as creation's... | |
| John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 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...slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to desarts: — not so thon, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play Time writes no wrinkle on thine... | |
| Quaver - 1844 - 552 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...stranger, slave, or savage ; their decay Has dried up reahus to deserts : — not so thou, Unchangeable, save to thy wild waves' play ; Time writes no wrinkle... | |
| Victoria Institute (Great Britain) - 1890 - 410 pages
...earth does in process of time, owing to eruption, earthquake, landslip, or other geological change. " Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow, Such as Creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now." Again, certain seas (those around the Channel Isles and also the Mediterranean) are of a particularly... | |
| 1837 - 396 pages
...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... | |
| Sir Charles Lyell - 1990 - 594 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...Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. CHAPTER XXVI. Magnitude of the subterranean changes produced by earthquakes at great depths below the... | |
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