 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 William Stanhope Hows - Readers - 1860 - 450 pages
...latter method. Immensity, Sublimity — are expressed by a prolongation and swell 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 descriptive reading, more or less imitated.... | |
 | Quotations - 1861 - 356 pages
...more! Too faithful mirror! how dost thou reflect The melancholy face of human life! YOUNO. Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand...sweep over thee in vain: Man marks the earth with ruin—his control Stops with the shore; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth... | |
 | Testimonies, Author of Sunday evenings at home - Witness bearing (Christianity) - 1861 - 236 pages
...always a favourite theme with the muses. The following is a well-known poet's address: — " Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Thou glorious mirror ! where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests, — through all... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Bible stories - 1861 - 550 pages
...the water would be turbid, and shell-fish would be destroyed. LESSON XVIIL— OCEAN WAVES. ROLL on, thou deep and dark blue ocean — roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thec in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin— his control Stops with the shore; upon the watery plain... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1863 - 614 pages
...universe, and feel What I can ne'er express, yet can not all conceal. 2. Roll on, thou deep and dark-blue ocean — roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain : Man marks the earth wifli ruin — his control Stops with the shore : — upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy... | |
 | George Markham Tweddell - 1863 - 142 pages
...landscape is the broad blue sea, tempting us to throw np our hats, and exclaim with BYRON : — " Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain." or with BAERY CORNWALL : — " The sea ! the sea ! the open sea ! The blue, the fresh, the ever... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1864 - 522 pages
...just as frank and sincere as that he bestowed on Captain Daggett himself CHAPTER IX. "Roll on, tbou deep and dark blue ocean — roll* Ten thousand fleets...sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruiti — his control Stops with the shore ; — upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deeds,... | |
 | 1865 - 642 pages
...intrudes By the deep tea, and music in it» roar ; I love nut man the less, but Nature more. Roll on thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll, Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the ear ill with him ; his control Stops with the short'— upon the watery plain The wredu are all thy... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - English literature - 1865 - 816 pages
...music in its roar; I love not man the lеsa, but Nature more. Roll on tbou deep and dark blue oceim, roll, Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earih with him ; his control Stops with tbe shore — upon the watery phia The wrecks are alt ihy deed... | |
 | English poetry - 1866 - 180 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 in vain ! . [trol Man marks the earth with ruin, his conStops with the shore; upon the watery plain The... | |
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