 | Scotland - 1860 - 834 pages
...and on his mother earth ! Once to my sight the giant thus was given, Wall'd by wide air, and roof 'd by boundless heaven ; Beneath his feet the human ocean...away. Methought no clarion could have sent its sound Even to the centre of the hosts around ; And as I thought rose the sonorous swell, As from some church-tower... | |
 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1860 - 164 pages
...on his mother earth ! Once to my sight tho giant thus was given, "VVall'd by wide air, ai d roof d by boundless heaven ; Beneath his feet the human ocean lay, And wave on wave flow'd into space away. Methought no clarion could have sent its sound Even to the centre of the hosts... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Ireland - 1872 - 348 pages
...ever been regarded by the Irish people with 1 The following is Bulwer's description of the scene : Once to my sight the giant thus was given, "Walled...Beneath his feet the human ocean lay, And wave on ware flowed into space away. Methought no clarion could have sent its sound Ken to the centre of the... | |
 | Chrysostom P. Donahoe - Funeral orations - 1875 - 322 pages
...incredible power and sweetness, Bulwer has well described : — " Once to my sight that giant form was given, Walled by wide air and roofed by boundless heaven; Beneath his teet the human ocean lay, And wave on wave rolled into space away. Methotight no clarion could have... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Ireland - 1876 - 352 pages
...ever been regarded by the Irish people with 1 The following is Bulwer's description of the scene : Once to my sight the giant thus was given, Walled...ocean lay, And wave on wave flowed into space away. Methonght no clarion could have sent its sound Ken to the centre of the hosts around ; And, as I thought,... | |
 | James Wills - Ireland - 1876 - 750 pages
...to produce." In Lord Lytton's poem " St Stephens," there is a powerful description of the scene— " Once to my sight the giant thus was given, Walled...Beneath his feet the human ocean lay, And wave on wave ilowed into space away. Methought no clarion could have sent ite sound, E'en to the centre of the hosts... | |
 | Alfred Webb - Ireland - 1878 - 616 pages
...who sold gingerbread." The following is Bulwer's description of the scene, as quoted by Mr. Lecky : " Once to my sight the giant thus was given, Walled...space away. Methought no clarion could have sent its Bound E'en to the centre of the hosts around ; And, o£ I thought, rose the sonorous swell* As from... | |
 | Justin McCarthy - Gran Bretana - Historia, 1837-1901 - 1879 - 350 pages
...meetings, and of the effect produced upon himself by O'Connell's eloquence. "Once to my sight," he says, "the giant thus was given; walled by wide air and roofed by boundless heaven." He describes "the human ocean" lying spread out at the giant's feet; its "wave on wave" flowing "into... | |
 | Justin McCarthy - Great Britain - 1879 - 460 pages
...meetings, and of the effect produced upon himself by O'Connell's eloquence. ' Once to my sight,' he says, ' the giant thus was given ; walled by wide air and roofed by boundless heaven.' He describes 'the human ocean ' lying spread out at the giant's feet ; its ' wave on wave ' flowing... | |
 | Justin McCarthy - Great Britain - 1880 - 572 pages
...meetings, and of the effect produced upon himself by O'Connell's eloquence. " Once to my sight," he says, " the giant thus was given ; walled by wide air and roofed by boundless heaven." He describes " the human ocean " lying spread out at the giant's feet; its " wave on wave " flowing... | |
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And as I thought rose the sonorous swell, As from some church-tower swings the silvery bell. Aloft and clear, from airy tide to tide, It glided, easy as a bird may glide ; To the last verge of that vast audience... 
