 The armaments which thunder-strike 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...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 2241818Full view - About this book
 | 1818 - 638 pages
...lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth : — there let him lay. The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built...title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war ; These arc thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's... | |
 | 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 pages
...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 pages
...spray And howling, to his Gods, where haply liei His petty hope in some near port or bay. And dustiest him again to earth :— there let him lay. 181. The...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 pages
...The armaments which thumlerstrikc the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake. And monarcbs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose...the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of wa* ; These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike... | |
 | 1838 - 884 pages
...His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth : — there let him lay, " The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built...in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge libs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war ; These arc thy... | |
 | 1821 - 438 pages
...armaments which thunderetrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake, • And monarch* tremble in their capitals. The oak leviathans, whose...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... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1818 - 648 pages
...His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth : — there let him lay. 1 The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built...nations quake, And monarchs tremble in their capitals, Tbe oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 pages
...to earth :— there let him lay. CLXXXI. The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock -built cities, bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble...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 pages
...petty hope in some near port or bay , And dashest him again to earth :— rthere let him lay CLXXXI. The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built...quake, And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oakliviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of Lord of thee, and arbiter... | |
 | Friedrich Johann Jacobsen - 1820 - 796 pages
...him again to earth: — there let him lay. The armaments which tlmnderstrike the walls Of rock -built cities , bidding nations quake. And monarchs tremble...thee, and arbiter of war; These are thy toys, and, as tlie snowy ßake, They melt into thy yeast of waves , which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils... | |
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