 | English language - 1861 - 312 pages
...thunder-strike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble in their eapitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay...and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - 1861 - 532 pages
...him again to earth:—there let him lay. The armaments which thunder-strike the walla Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble...take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war; These are t'.iy toys, and as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1862 - 392 pages
...grave, unknelled, uucoffined, and unknown. The armaments which thunder-strike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble...and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - 1915 - 956 pages
...the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake And monarchs tremble in their capitals, Tli e brook No pain and small suspense, a joy perceives...leaves — 1340 What may the fruit be yet ? — I know waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride or spoils of Trafalgar. CLXXXII Thy shores are empires, changed... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 806 pages
...again to earth — there let him lay. 1620 The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built ppeared (to use the similitude of an ingenious writer)...cedars with their heads reaching to the clouds. . waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.1 1 The uninjured ships of the Armada... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 828 pages
...again to earth — there let him lay. 1620 The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down ;...hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. 1 Thy shores are empires, changed... | |
 | R. E. Pattison Kline - 1916 - 246 pages
...grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown. The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble...and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed... | |
 | George Benjamin Woods - 1916 - 1604 pages
...again to earth:— there let him lay. The armaments which thunderstrike the •walls Of rock-built 16 waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride or spoils of Trafalgar.* 1 See Scott's The Lay of the Latt... | |
 | 1918 - 580 pages
...had come to invade. Flavit Deus et dissipati sunt." In other words : Man proposes, ocean disposes. The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay...are thy toys and, as the snowy flake, They melt into the yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride or spoils of Trafalgar. . j That is Byron's... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 714 pages
...him again to earth : — there let him lay. The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built w secure the painted vessel glides, waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed... | |
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The armaments which thunderstrike 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... 
