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Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wash'd them power while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up...

Childe Harold: Canto the Fourth, The Prisoner of Chillon and Mazepa - Page 63
by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1909 - 136 pages
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Tradita et inventa: Beiträge zur Rezeption der Antike

Manuel Baumbach - Art - 2000 - 696 pages

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Mediating Order and Chaos: The Water-cycle in the Complex Adaptive Systems ...

Rodney Farnsworth - Art - 2001 - 430 pages

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Mediating Order and Chaos: The Water-cycle in the Complex Adaptive Systems ...

Rodney Farnsworth - Art - 2001 - 360 pages

...Greece. Rome. Carthage. what are thev? Thy waters washed their power while they were free. And manj a tyrant since: their shores obey The stranger. slave. or savage: their decay lIas dried up realms to desarts [...]. Jerome McGann pinpoints the great importance of this stanza...

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