 | Moses Severance - 1832 - 312 pagine
...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...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 pagine
...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 pagine
...shores are empires, chang'd in all save thee, — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many...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 pagine
...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...rollest now. 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... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - 360 pagine
...shores are empires', changed in all save thee' — Assyria', Greece', Rome', Carthage', what are they''? Thy waters wasted them while they were free', And...now'. Thou glorious mirror', where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests'; in all time', *N4'tshure. bN4re. cl>hth. ^Mo'ment. «Dust. fLie.... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1835 - 472 pagine
...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 pagine
...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... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1835 - 484 pagine
...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...Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkles on thine azure brow— ^ Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now, . J Thou glorious... | |
 | Moses Severance - 1835 - 314 pagine
...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...obey The stranger, slave, or savage ; their decay HM •'-ied up realms to deserts ; — not so thou, -nangeable save to thy wild waves' play :— Time... | |
 | Harp - 1836 - 380 pagine
...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...rollest now. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests ; in all time, Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale, or storm,... | |
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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' play — Time writes no wrinkle on... 
