 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...  Golden Number: A Book of Verse for Youth - Pagina 256geredigeerd door - 1916 - 686 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1818 - 638 pagina’s
...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...Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee— • Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were... | |
 | 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 pagina’s
...wrote the following passages — • Though the ycsfy waves Confound and swallow navigation up.' ' These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake. They...Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.' With all due reverence for Partridge's maxim — de gtutibut — we cannot help maintaining that no... | |
 | 1818 - 762 pagina’s
...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...Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. 188. Thy shores are empire*, changed in ;H save thee— Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they?... | |
 | 1848 - 788 pagina’s
...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...Trafalgar. " Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee— Assyria, Greece, liome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free,... | |
 | 1818 - 806 pagina’s
...the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble in their capitals, • The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay...Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free,... | |
 | DAVID WILLISON - 1818 - 572 pagina’s
...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...Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free,... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1818 - 648 pagina’s
...the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble in their capitals, Tbe oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator...Trafalgar. ' Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free,... | |
 | 1821 - 438 pagina’s
...the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake, • And monarch* tremble in their capitals. The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay...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 pagina’s
...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...Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. CLXxxn. Thy shires are empirrs, changed in all gave thec — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage,* what... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 176 pagina’s
...rock-built cities, bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oakliviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title...waves , which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils CLXXXII. Thy shores are empires , changed in all save thee — Assyria , Greece , Rome , Carthage ,... | |
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