 Roll on, thou deep and dark, blue Ocean, roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Lord Byron. Man marks the earth with ruin; his control Stops with the shore : upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's...  Southern Quarterly Review - Page 112edited by - 1845Full view - About this book
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1871 - 200 pages
...before, To mingle with the universe, and feel What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean — roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee iu vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain... | |
 | 1872 - 830 pages
...stanzas on the " Ocean " should be read in connection with the Storm in " Don Juan " : — " Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean — roll, Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man in,,. U the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - Elocution - 1872 - 322 pages
...to attain. Immensity, Sublimity — are expressed by a prolongation and swel of the voice. Boll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll, Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Motion and sound, in all their modifications, are, in descriptivi reading, more or less imitated.... | |
 | American poetry - 1872 - 900 pages
...before, To mingle with the universe, and feel What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal. Roll on, vain ; ilan marks the earth with ruin, — his control Stops with the shore ; — upon the watery plain... | |
 | William Swinton - English language - 1872 - 232 pages
...night, through his means, I have been transported into Asiatic scenery. — Dt Quincey. 10. Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean — roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. — Byron. 4. The Verb. 61. Verbs are divided, according to the function they perform, into,... | |
 | 1872 - 932 pages
...expanse of its waters, has it seemed an image of God, recalling these grand words : — " Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean — roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over lliee in vain ; Wan marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore — upon the watery... | |
 | Stephen M. Lanigan - Aesthetics - 1873 - 238 pages
...comparison which is so well expressed in the well-known lines of Byron : ' Roll on, thou deep and dark bine ocean, roll ; Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with min ; his control Stops with thy shore. Upon thy watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873 - 332 pages
...Universe, and feel What I can ne'er express, yet can not all conceal. Eoll on, thou deep and dark blne Ocean — roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with rnin — his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1873 - 614 pages
...plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. 3. Roll on, thou deep and dark-blue ocean — roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain : Man marks the earth wife ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; — upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed,... | |
 | James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1875 - 486 pages
...VIRTUE takes place of all things. It is the nobility of ANGELS ! It is the MAJESTY of GOD ! 3. Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean — roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. 4. 0 thou that, with surpassing glory crowned, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the G6d Of... | |
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