 Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean — roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ! Man marks the earth with ruin, his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 5021848Full view - About this book
 | William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 pages
...Immensity, sublimity, are naturally expressed by a prolongation and swell of the voice. Roll on, 11* on deep and dark blue ocean, roll, Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. The adoption of a tone little varied in the inflexion is necessary in such passages, the wave... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1837 - 338 pages
...gloomy, yet elevated melancholy of Byron, we may present his APOSTROPHE TO THE OCEAN. Roll on, thoil deep and dark blue ocean — roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in rain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore; — upon the watery plain... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 480 pages
...of Terracina. — [See MUtorical .Note*, at the end of this Cauto, No. XXXI. -UK.) CLXXIX. Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean — roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over th« in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — hie control Stops with the shore; — upon the watery... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 pages
...To mingle wilh the Universe, and feel What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal^ 2. Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, — roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; M,an marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; — upon the watery... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...To mingle with the Universe, and feel What 1 can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal. ' Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean — roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — -his control Stops with the shore; — upon the watery... | |
 | William Martin - 1838 - 368 pages
...mingle with the Universe, and feel What 1 can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal. CLXXIX. Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, — roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain : Man marks the earth with ruin, — his controul Stops with the shore : upon the watery plain... | |
 | 1871 - 608 pages
...stanzas on the ' Ocean ' should be read in connection with the Storm in ' Don Juan ' : — ' Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean — roll, Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain... | |
 | Johann Sporschil - 1838 - 510 pages
...tinkling' bellj As is the soothing memory фОГ that one precious hour to me! (Thomas Moore.) Roll on , thou deep and" dark blue ocean — roll , Ten thousand fleets -sweep over thee iu vain. Man marks the earth with ruin — his control . Stops with the shore: — upon the watery... | |
 | 1838 - 938 pages
...To mingle with the Universe, and feel What I can ne'er express, yet can not all conceal. " Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean — roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thce in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; — upon the watery... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1838 - 604 pages
...featly move, Thoughtless, as if on shore they still were free to rove.' . Ibid. Canto 2. "Roll on, thoti deep and dark blue ocean — roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops -with the shore; — upon the watery plain... | |
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