 | 1852 - 782 pages
...mark the scenes of vanish'd war, Actium, Lepanto, fatal Trafalgar." Childe Harold, Canto II. St. 40. " The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay...Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar." Childe Harold, Canto IV. St. 181. " Nelson was once Britannia's god of war, And still should be so,... | |
 | 1852 - 196 pages
...monarchs tremble in their capitals ; The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make ADDRESS TO THE OCEAN. 107 Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of...Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. The shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they... | |
 | 1852 - 1170 pages
...fruits of a triumph from us. ** The oak leviathans, whose huge rihs make Their clay creator the proud title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war, These...Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar." And then he proceeds, according to my view of the passage, and according to the French translator's... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 pages
...His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashcst him again to earth — there let him lay. 1620 Trafalgar.1 1 The uninjured ships of the Armada are contrasted with those broken in the battle of Trafalgar.... | |
 | John Dover Wilson - 1927 - 310 pages
...him lay. The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake, 20 And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans,...mar Alike the Armada's pride or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they?... | |
 | 1927 - 490 pages
...lies His pretty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth: — there let him lay. The armaments which thunder-strike the walls Of rock-built...thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into the nest of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires,... | |
 | Arthur Beatty - 1928 - 582 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...mar Alike the Armada's pride or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they?... | |
 | Frederick Earle Emmons, Thomas Waterman Huntington - 1928 - 454 pages
...hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth : — there let him lay. 6 To the Ocean The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built...mar Alike the Armada's pride or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee; — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they?... | |
 | Caroline Miles Hill - 1928 - 888 pages
...haply 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...yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, and spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - 1994 - 884 pages
...monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the Tain meal, And wine, and sleep, CLXXXn. Thy snores are empires, changed in all save thee— Assyria, Greece, Borne, Carthage, what... | |
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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... 
