 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1832 - 488 pages
...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...waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure browSuch a? creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. CLXXXIII. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's... | |
 | Moses Severance - Readers - 1832 - 312 pages
...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 - Geology - 1832 - 634 pages
...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... | |
 | Naval art and science - 1866 - 728 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...shores are empires', changed in all save thee' — Assyria', Greece', Rome', Carthage', what are they''? Thy waters wasted them while they were free', And...Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests'; in all time', *N4'tshure. bN4re. cl>hth. ^Mo'ment. «Dust. fLie. eTr&f-al-gdr'. hi'zhure. Calm or convulsed' —... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1835 - 472 pages
...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 pages
...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 - Rare books - 1835 - 484 pages
...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 - American literature - 1835 - 314 pages
...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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 356 pages
...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...Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. (1) [When Lord Byron wrote this stanza, he had, no doubt, the following passage in Boswell's Johnson... | |
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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... 
