 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1835 - 472 pages
...empires which have flourished and fallen on the borders of the ocean, with its ovn unchanged stability. Their decay Has dried up realms to deserts : — not...Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. CHILDE HAROLD, Canto iv. 273 CHAPTER IX. CAUSES OF EARTHQUAKES AND VOLCANOS. Intimate connexion between... | |
 | Robert Mignan - Nilgiri Hills (India) - 1834 - 172 pages
...an azure dome. The sublime lines of Lord Byron, rendered the scene before us impressively beautiful. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses...gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark heaving; — boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of eternity — the throna Of the invisible;... | |
 | 1849 - 782 pages
...intervening passage of the same tenor, the 182nd stanza concludes with the wellknown lines : I'ochaogeable save to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle...Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. In describing the church at Aucona, Madame de Stael uses the following language. "The Catholic church... | |
 | Charles Samuel Stewart - Great Britain - 1834 - 278 pages
...been a week at sea, without making the apostrophe of Byron my own — " And I have loved thee, Ocean! in all time, Calm or convulsed, in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark heaving — I have loved thee, And exulted in thy billows." SIGHT OF LAND. LETTER II. COAflTINO... | |
 | John Pierpont - Rare books - 1835 - 484 pages
...Time writes no wrinkles on thine azure brow— ^ Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now, . J Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses...gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark heaving ; — boundless, endless, and sublime— The image of Eternity— the throne Of the Invisible... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1835 - 484 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...Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkles on thine azure brow — Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. Thou glorious mirror,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1835 - 158 pages
...and that which IS done, is that which SHALL be done, and there is no NEW thing under the sun. 678. THOU, glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form glasses...or convulsed, in breeze, or- gale, or storm, icing t/ic pole, or in the torrid clime dark heaving, BOUNDLESS, ENDLESS, and SUBLIME — the image of Eternity... | |
 | Charles Samuel Stewart - Great Britain - 1835 - 578 pages
...been a week at sea, without making the apostrophe of Byron my own — " And I have loved thee, Ocean! in all time, Calm or convulsed, in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark heaving — I have loved thee, And exulted in thy billows." SIGHT OF LAND. ' LETTER II. COASTING... | |
 | Michael Scott - Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 - 1835 - 360 pages
...cloudless heaven, eo that no one could tell where water and sky met. < (£ Thou glorious mirror, ------- in all time, Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid cHme Dark heaving — boundless, endless, and sublime, . , The image of Eternity — the throne , Of... | |
 | John Pierpont - Rare books - 1835 - 496 pages
...shores are empires, changed in all save thee— Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage,—what are they ? Has dried up realms to deserts :—not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play— Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger,... | |
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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... 
