 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' play — Time writes no wrinkle...  The works, of ... lord Byron - Página 75de George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1871 - 608 páginas
...thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wash'd them power while they were free,* And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey...Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. * This is the correct reading. The older editions have — ' Thy waters wasted them while they were... | |
 | 1838 - 876 páginas
...save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they 1 Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey...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... | |
 | 1838 - 938 páginas
...they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey Tho stranger, slave, or savage ; their decay Has dried...not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' playTime writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now.... | |
 | George Palmer Putnam, Author of An introduction and index to general history - 1838 - 302 páginas
...my propensity for quotations : — did you ever appreciate Byron's apostrophe to the Ocean ? — " Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests ; in all time, Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime... | |
 | John George Cochrane - 1838 - 508 páginas
...save his own, When, for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, " Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed—in breeze, or gale, or storm. Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime... | |
 | Harriet Maria Gordon Smythies - 1838 - 1048 páginas
...during a pretended fit of Miss Matthews's, privately sent to make security doubly sure. CHAPTER XL " Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests ; in all time, Calm or convulsed — in breeze, in gale or storm. Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime,... | |
 | 1838 - 506 páginas
...sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown." " Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed—in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime... | |
 | William Huffington - 1839 - 500 páginas
...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...Such as 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... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1839 - 488 páginas
...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...— Such as Creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now !" LECTURE II. 1. Introductory observations. 2. Extinction of animals. 3. Animals extirpated by human... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1839 - 522 páginas
...thee — • Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey...— Such as Creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now .'" LECTURE II. 1. Introductory observations. 2. Extinction of animals. 3. Animals extirpated by human... | |
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