 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
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 482 pages
...bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown. 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 are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria,... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch, William Russell - Elocution - 1845 - 372 pages
...bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown ! 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, chang'd in all save thee — Assyria,... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1845 - 494 pages
...bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown-. 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,... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uncofnn'd, and unknown. * * * * * 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 ', chang'd in all save thee — Assyria,... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 330 pages
...grave, unknetled, uncofSued, and unknown. The armaments which Ihundentrike the walls Of rock -built cities, bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble,...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 Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 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...thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into the yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires,... | |
 | General reciter - 1845 - 348 pages
...groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoflln'd, and unknown. The armaments which thunderstrike the walla Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake, And monarchs...thy toys ; and as the snowy flake, They melt into the yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires,... | |
 | John Hall - Elocution - 1845 - 356 pages
...bay', And dashest him again to earth* : — there let him lay.* The armaments which thunder-strike the walls' Of rock-built cities', bidding nations...lord of thee, and arbiter of war' ; — These are thy toysv, and', as the snowy flake1, They melt into thy yeast of wavesv, which mar' Alike the Armada's... | |
 | Jesse Olney - Elocution - 1845 - 348 pages
...bay, Then dashest him again to earth : — there let him lay. 4. The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake,...ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of iOrd of thee, and arbiter of war ! These are thy toys, and as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 406 pages
...quake, . And monarch) tremble, in their capital!, The oak leviathans, whote huge rite make Their cUy creator, the vain title take— Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war ! These are thy toys, and, a» Ihe snowy flake, They melt into thy yrast of wave», which mar Alike, tho Armada's pride, or spoil»... | |
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