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... Poetry, edited by Ernest Hartley Coleridge - Seite 459von George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1922Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1818 - 638 Seiten
...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 arc thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1835 - 606 Seiten
...wrote the following passages — • Though the ycsfy waves Confound and swallow navigation up.' ' These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake. They...waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.' With all due reverence for Partridge's maxim — de gtutibut — we cannot help maintaining... | |
| 1818 - 762 Seiten
...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...waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. 188. Thy shores are empire*, changed in ;H save thee— Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage,... | |
| 1838 - 884 Seiten
...bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge libs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war ; These arc thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yest of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's... | |
| 1848 - 788 Seiten
...bidding nations quake. And monarcbs 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 wa* ; These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike... | |
| DAVID WILLISON - 1818 - 572 Seiten
...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...waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what... | |
| 1818 - 806 Seiten
...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...waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1818 - 648 Seiten
...bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble in their capitals, Tbe oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of...waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. ' Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage,... | |
| 1821 - 438 Seiten
...nations quake, • And monarch* 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 are thy toys, aid, as the snowy flake, 'They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 Seiten
...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...waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. CLXxxn. Thy shires are empirrs, changed in all gave thec — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage,*... | |
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