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" The armaments which thunderstrike 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... "
Poetry: selected for the use of schools and families by A. Bowman - Page 20
by Anne Bowman - 1856 - 292 pages
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An Essay on Elocution: With Elucidatory Passages from Various Authors

John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 pages
...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...— Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ! Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger,...
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The universal class-book: a ser. of reading lessons

Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...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...— Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger,...
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An Essay on Elocution: With Elucidatory Passages from Various Authors : to ...

John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1844 - 318 pages
...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— Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ! Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger,...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make lers of such a cast, And on their way, in friendly...Now talked of this, and then of that ; Discoursed Rave thee— Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they 1 Thy waters wasted them while they were...
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Cyclopædia of English literature, Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...huge ribs make Their clay creator thé vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war: These arc 3 0 0 $ Cartilage, what are they ! Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their...
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The Quaver; or, Songster's pocket companion

Quaver - Songs - 1844 - 552 pages
...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...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,...
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The District School Reader, Or, Exercises in Reading and Speaking: Designed ...

William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 482 pages
...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...— Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger,...
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An Essay on Elocution: With Elucidatory Passages from Various Authors. To ...

John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1845 - 492 pages
...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— Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they I Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger,...
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Historical Sketches of English and American Literature: Embracing an Account ...

Robert Chambers, Royal Robbins - American literature - 1845 - 342 pages
...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 — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they1? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyi-ant since, their shores obey, —...
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Elocution; Or, Mental and Vocal Philosophy: Involving the Principles of ...

C. P. Bronson - Anatomy - 1845 - 330 pages
...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...all save thee— Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, wbat are they ? Thy waters wasted them, while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores...
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