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" The world was void: The populous and the powerful was a lump, Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless; A lump of death, a chaos of hard clay. The rivers, lakes and ocean, all stood still, And nothing stirred within their silent depths. Ships,... "
The Quarterly Review - Page 145
edited by - 1832
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 47

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1832 - 626 pages
...wind, and there came no prospect of any breeze, I have recollected the following strange lines, arid almost fancied that such might be our own dismal fate:—...of a return of our old friend the trade, but could disiinguish nothing save one polished, dark -heaving sheet of glass, reflecting the unbroken disk of...
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Hebrew Melodies

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Bookbinders - 1815 - 324 pages
...depths ; Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell down piecemeal ; as they dropp'd They slept on the abyss without a surge — The waves...were withered in the stagnant air, And the clouds perish'd ; Darkness had no need Of aid from them — She was the universe. CHURCHILL'S GRAVE, A FACT...
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The Prisoner of Chillon, and Other Poems, Volume 1

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1816 - 88 pages
...depths ; Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell down piecemeal ; as they dropp'd They slept on the abyss without a surge— The waves...were withered in the stagnant air, And the clouds perish'd ; Darkness had no need Of aid from them— ,She was the universe. CHtfRCHlLI/S GRAVE, A FACT...
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Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal

1816 - 572 pages
...The populous and the powerful was a lump, Scasonltss, herbless, treeless, manless, lifclfts.' — ' The waves were dead ; the tides were in their grave,...withered in the stagnant air, And the clouds perished ; darkness had no need Of aid from them — She was the universe.' Now for Mr. Fuseli's Picture : '...
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The British Critic: A New Review, Volume 6

English literature - 1816 - 696 pages
...their masts fell down piecemeal; as they dropp'd They slept on the abyss without a surge— The waives were dead; the tides were in their grave, The moon...The winds were withered in the stagnant air, And the elouils perish'd; Darkness had no need Of aid from them—She was the universe." £. 30. We must confess...
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The works of ... lord Byron, Volume 6

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1818 - 210 pages
...depths; Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell down piecemeal; as they dropp'd They slept on the abyss without a surge — The waves...were withered in the stagnant air, And the clouds perish'd; Darkness had no need Of aid from them— She was the universe. CHURCHILL'S GRAVE, A FACT...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Lord Byron: Prisoner of Chillon. Manfred ...

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1818 - 216 pages
...depths; Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell down piecemeal; as they dropp'd The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave,...were withered in the stagnant air, And the clouds perish'd; Darkness had no need Of aid from them — She was the universe. CHURCHILL'S GRAVE, A FACT...
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Lord Byron's Works ...

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1821 - 478 pages
...depths ; Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea, &nd their masts fell down piecemeal ; as they dropp'd They slept on the abyss without a surge — The waves...were withered in the stagnant air, And the clouds perish'd ; Darkness had no need Of aid from them — She was the universe. 1 HERE be none of Beauty's...
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Select Works of the Right Honourable Lord Byron: In Two Volumes, Volume 2

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1823 - 310 pages
...they dropp'd They slept on the abyss without a surge — The waves were dead ; the tides were in then- grave, The moon their mistress had expired before...were withered in the stagnant air, And the clouds perish'd ; Darkness had no need Of aid from them — She was the universe. CHURCHILL'S GRAVE, A FACT...
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The Prisoner of Chillon

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 44 pages
...the abyss without a surge—- The waves were dead ; the tides were in their grave. The moon th eir mistress had expired before ; The winds were withered in the stagnant air, And the clouds perish \1 ; Darkness had no need Of aid from them — She was the universe. SONNET. ROUSSEAU — Voltaire...
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