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A system of elocution based upon grammatical analysis - Page 81
by William Stewart Ross - 1869 - 432 pages
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The Beauties of Byron,: Consisting of Selections from His Works

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Alfred Howard - 1824 - 226 pages
...Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage ; their...azure brow — Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollcst now. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests ; in all time,...
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A voyage to India: containing reflections on a voyage in 1821; instructions ...

James Wallace (ship's surgeon.) - 1824 - 192 pages
...He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown. " Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests ! — in all time, Calm or convuls'd, in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark heaving — boundless,...
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The Beauties of Byron,: Consisting of Selections from His Works

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 234 pages
...or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts:—not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play— Time writes no wrinkle on thine...
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The complete works of lord Byron with a biogr. and critical ..., Volumes 1-2

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 906 pages
...Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts:—not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play— Time writes no wrinkle on thine...
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The Works of Lord Byron: Complete in One Volume

George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 804 pages
...Thy waters wasted them while they were free. And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stronger, n the haughtiest cedar nil lest now. Thon glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests ; in all time,...
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The elementary elocutionist: a selection of pieces in prose and verse, by J ...

John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 pages
...Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their...waves' play— Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure browSuch as Creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now ! Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form...
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The works of lord Byron

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1826 - 852 pages
...obey The stranger, «lave, or savage; theirdecay Has dried up realms to deserts : — not so I linn , Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow, Such a« creation'« dawn beheld, thon rollest now. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses...
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Childe Harold's pilgrimage, a romaunt

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1826 - 170 pages
...Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms to desarts: — not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' playTime writes no wrinkle on thine...
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Specimens of sacred and serious poetry, from Chaucer to the present day ...

John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage ; their...waves' play— Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure browSuch as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty'sforni...
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Sketches of a Tour to the Lakes, of the Character and Customs of the ...

Thomas Loraine McKenney - English language - 1827 - 606 pages
...whose vast sheet of water was seen when the fog subsided, as far as the eye could take it in — "A glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses...Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale, or storm." Hitherto, and when out in the lake, or bay rather, (that is between Point Iroquois and Gros cap, and...
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