| Elizabeth Singer Rowe - 1796 - 996 pages
...its limits ; insulting Death has fixed the bounds, and pronounced the imperial mandate, " Hitherto " shall thou go, and no farther:" and " Here " shall thy proud waves be stayed." The wildest boast of mortal vanity yields to the dreadful Conqueror ; the glory of Nature,... | |
| Charles Rollin - 1810 - 484 pages
...set to the sea, and in that order which he seems to have writ upon the strand : " [k] hitherto shal1 thou go, and no farther, " and here shall thy proud waves be stayed ?" Can we reasonably suffer youth to be ignorant of such wonders as these, or not instruct them... | |
| George Vason - 1810 - 254 pages
...who "treadeth the waves of the sea," and at its formation bounded it by the command, "Hitherto shalt thou go and no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." * The composer showed the above dtscription of the "ale, to a naval officer, who was just... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1811 - 368 pages
...Him who " treadeth the waves of the sea ;" and at its formation bounded it by the command, " Hitherto shall thou go, and no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." See pages 37, 38, and 39, of The authentic Narrative of four Years' Residence at Tongataboo.... | |
| Archibald Alison - 1814 - 592 pages
...Power, which restrains the tide of the ocean, hath also in every age said to the tide of war, " Hitherto shall thou go, and no farther ; " and here shall thy proud waves be " staid." 2. The second observation which is fitted to impress us upon the review of the history of... | |
| Archibald Alison - 1815 - 312 pages
...which restrains the tide of the ocean, hath also in every age said to the tide of war, " Hitherto shalt thou " go, and no farther ; and here shall thy proud " waves be staid." 2. The second observation which is fitted to impress us upon the review of the history of the... | |
| Robert Morehead - 1816 - 492 pages
...cheering beam yet rises to enlighten us, and no commanding voice is yet heard to say, " Hitherto shalt thou " go, and no farther, and here shall " thy proud waves be stayed." In such a situation, the feebleness of despair is too apt to seize upon us, while we are dazzled... | |
| Archibald Alison - 1820 - 576 pages
...which restrains the tide of the ocean, hath also in every age said to the tide of war, " Hitherto shalt thou go, and no farther ; ** and here shall thy proud waves be " staid." 2. The second observation which is fitted to impress us upon the review of the history of... | |
| Benjamin Beddome - 1824 - 366 pages
...laid the foundations of the earth, and fixed the boundaries of the raging sea ; saying, hitherto shalt thou go, and no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be staid. From him the sun receives its light, and the stars their influence. He is the great origin of... | |
| John Cole - 1826 - 144 pages
...confines the roaring billows — " He hath placed the sand for a bound to the sea — hitherto shalt thou go and no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." The following lines, descriptive of the dangers in a storm at sea, breathe such a spirit of... | |
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