 The armaments which thunder-strike 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...  Childe Harold's pilgrimage: Italy - Page 132by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1872Full view - About this book
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1825 - 504 pages
...bay, And dashest him again to earth, — there let him lay. The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs makes Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of...melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria,... | |
 | John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 pages
...port or bay, And dashest him again to earth;—there let him lay. The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake,...huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take '. i ( J They melt into thy yest of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.... | |
 | George Gordon Noėl Byron - 1826 - 776 pages
...tremble in their capitals. The oak-lev iathans, whose 1 1 upc ribs make Their clay-creator the tain held him? Cain. Many of the same kind (at leant so call'd) , l!ni never that precisely which Theymelt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1826 - 848 pages
...And monarch« tremble in their capitale. The oak-leviathans, whose huge rib§ make Their clay-creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war : These are thy toys, and, as the enowy flake, They melt in to thy yeast of wavei,which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 604 pages
...fort or bay, Anddashest him again to earth:—there let him lay. The armaments which thunder-strike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake,...melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores areempires,changed inallsavethee— Assyria, Greece,... | |
 | John Cole - 1827 - 166 pages
...port or bay, And dashest him again to earth:—there let him lay. The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake,...melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee— Assyria,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1827 - 880 pages
...The oak leviathans, whose lni|;e ribs make Their clay creator ihe \ain title take Of lord of thec, and arbiter of war; These are thy toys, and, as the...flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar \like the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. CLXXX II. Thy shores are empires, changed in all... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1828 - 314 pages
...bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uncolfm'd. and unknown. The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake,...flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Vlike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...or bay. Then dashest him again to earth: — there let him lay.' The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake,...snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which inar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Readers, American - 1828 - 251 pages
...port or bay, Then dashest him again to earth: — there let him lay. The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake,...toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy ye ast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires,... | |
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