 | Moses Severance - 1832 - 312 Seiten
...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...thy wild waves' play : — Time writes no wrinkle on thy azure brow : — Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. 5. Thou glorious mirror, where... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1832 - 634 Seiten
...borders of the ocean, with its own unchanged stability. Their decay Has dried up realms to deserts:—not so thou, Unchangeable, save to thy wild waves' play:...Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. CHILOE HAKoLB, Canto iv. CHAPTER XXVI. Subterranean changes at great depths below the surface indicated... | |
 | 1866 - 728 Seiten
...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 driod up realms to deserts ; not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play : Time writes no... | |
 | James Hedderwick - 1833 - 232 Seiten
...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,...creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed — in... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - 360 Seiten
...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',...creation's dawn beheld', thou rollest now'. Thou glorious mirror', where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests'; in all time', *N4'tshure. bN4re. cl>hth.... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1835 - 472 Seiten
...empires which have flourished and fallen on the borders of the ocean, with its ovn unchanged stability. Their decay Has dried up realms to deserts : — not...Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. CHILDE HAROLD, Canto iv. 273 CHAPTER IX. CAUSES OF EARTHQUAKES AND VOLCANOS. Intimate connexion between... | |
 | 1849 - 782 Seiten
...intervening passage of the same tenor, the 182nd stanza concludes with the wellknown lines : I'ochaogeable save to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle...Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. In describing the church at Aucona, Madame de Stael uses the following language. "The Catholic church... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1834 - 680 Seiten
...them while they yet were free, And many a tyrant since their shores obey. The stranger, slave, and savage : their decay Has dried up realms to deserts ; not so thou, Unchangeable sare to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no urrinhle on thine azure brow — Such as creation's... | |
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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 to deserts; — not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves 
