 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...  English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892) - Page 442by John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 792 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1850 - 318 pages
...He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown. The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built...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... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...lies His petty 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...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?... | |
 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 pages
...depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unkne lied, uno.offined, and unknown The armaments whieh thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding...Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, chanired in all save thee— Assyria, (ireece, Rome, Carlhage, where are they... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1851 - 352 pages
...petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth : — there let him lay. CLXXXI. The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built...Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. CLXXXII. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pages
...dashest him again to earth : there let hm lay. The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock -built seem. But -while this softer art their bliss supplies, It gives their follies also room to rise : Y"T Thy shores are empires, changed in all save the* Assyrie, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they t Thy... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 768 pages
...dashest him again to earth: there let him lay. The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rook-built cities, bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 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 thunder-strike the walls Of rock-built...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... | |
 | Samuel Longfellow - 1853 - 228 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...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... | |
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