 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...  The works of ... lord Byron - Page 184by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819Full view - About this book
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1845 - 492 pages
...grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown-. The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble...Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee— Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 482 pages
...grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown. The armaments which thunder-strike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble...Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they?... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch, William Russell - Elocution - 1845 - 424 pages
...grave, unknelled, uncofBned, and unknown ! The armaments, which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble...Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, chang'd in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...him again to earth : — there let him lay. The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake And monarchs tremble...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
...grave, unknell'd, uncoflln'd, and unknown. The armaments which thunderstrike the walla Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble...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 - 354 pages
...again to earth* : — there let him lay.* The armaments which thunder-strike the walls' Of rock-built cities', bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble...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... | |
 | 1858 - 708 pages
...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...— These are thy toys, and as the snowy flake They sink into thy yeast of waves, which mar ** Alike the Armada's pride and spoils of Trafalgar." But this... | |
 | Jesse Olney - Elocution - 1845 - 348 pages
...again to earth : — there let him lay. 4. The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble...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... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble in their capilals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay...vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war ; LORD BYRON. 229 The» are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, Ours too the glance none saw beside... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 396 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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