 The armaments which thunder-strike 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 ;...  The works, of ... lord Byron - Էջ 75George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | 1818 - 638 էջ
...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 arc thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1835 - 606 էջ
...wrote the following passages — • Though the ycsfy waves Confound and swallow navigation up.' ' These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake. They...waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.' With all due reverence for Partridge's maxim — de gtutibut — we cannot help maintaining... | |
 | 1818 - 762 էջ
...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...waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. 188. Thy shores are empire*, changed in ;H save thee— Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage,... | |
 | 1848 - 788 էջ
...rock-built cities, bidding nations quake. And monarcbs 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 wa* ; These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike... | |
 | 1838 - 884 էջ
...bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge libs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war ; These arc thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yest of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1818 - 648 էջ
...rock-built cities, bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble in their capitals, Tbe oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title...waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. ' Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage,... | |
 | 1818 - 806 էջ
...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...waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage,... | |
 | DAVID WILLISON - 1818 - 572 էջ
...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...waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage,... | |
 | 1821 - 438 էջ
...rock-built cities, bidding nations quake, • And monarch* tremble in their capitals. The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title...of thee, and arbiter of war ; These are thy toys, aid, as the snowy flake, 'They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or... | |
 | Friedrich Johann Jacobsen - 1820 - 796 էջ
...-built cities , bidding nations quake. And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans , whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title...thee, and arbiter of war; These are thy toys, and, as tlie snowy ßake, They melt into thy yeast of waves , which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils... | |
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