 | Scotland - 1838 - 938 pages
...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.... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - Geology - 1839 - 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...— 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 - Geology - 1839 - 522 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 .'" LECTURE II. 1. Introductory observations. 2. Extinction of animals. 3. Animals extirpated by human... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - Geology - 1839 - 518 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...play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — Sttch as Creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now !" LECTURE II. 1. Introductory observations.... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Readers - 1839 - 322 pages
...shores arc empires, changed in all save thee, — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many...so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play, — Tini9 writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow, — Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now.... | |
 | 1839 - 320 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...not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' playlime writes no wrinkles on thy azure brow iich as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. Thou... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1839 - 362 pages
...— Assyria', Greece', Rome', Carthage', what are they'? Thy waters wasted them while they were/ree', And many a tyrant since'; their shores obey' The stranger',...wild waves' play' — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azureh brdw' — Such' . . as creation's dawn beheld', thou rollest now'. Thou glorious mirror', where... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1847 - 708 pages
...save thee : Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage — what are they ? Thy waten washed them while they yet were free, And many a tyrant since their shores obey—...dried up realms to deserts. Not so thou, Unchangeable ever, to the wild wave's play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — Such as creation's... | |
 | Anna Eliza Bray - 1841 - 996 pages
...Thy shores are empires, changed in all tare thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many...Glasses itself in tempests ; in all time, Calm or convuls'd — in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark -heaving ;... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1841 - 474 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...Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. CLXXXHI. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests ; in all time,... | |
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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... 
