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... The Sixth Reader - Page 360by Lewis Baxter Monroe - 1872 - 408 pagesFull 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 melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.' With all due reverence for Partridge's maxim —... | |
| 1818 - 762 pages
...His petty hope in some near port or bay. And dustiest him again to earth :— there let him lay. 181. The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built...flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. 188. Thy shores are empire*, changed in ;H save thee—... | |
| 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... | |
| DAVID WILLISON - 1818 - 572 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...flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee... | |
| 1818 - 806 pages
...His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth :— there, let him lay. 181. The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built...flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee... | |
| 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... | |
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