 | Madame de Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine) - 1847 - 486 pages
...canto of Childe Harold, but without acknowledging whence the ideas were borrowed : — " Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean — roll ! Ten thousand fleets...the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the snore ; — upon the wat'ry plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage.... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...extract from a writer, who has been ranked with the master-spirits of the age: — " Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll ' Ten thousand fleets...shore. Upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, When, for a moment, like a drop of rain,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1848 - 428 pages
...linger long in silent woe ; But live — until I cease to be. APOSTROPHE TO THE OCEAN. ROLL on, thou deep and dark blue ocean — roll! Ten thousand fleets...; — upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, When, for a moment, like a drop of rain,... | |
 | William Russell - 1849 - 310 pages
...take; but as for me — give me liberty, or give me death ! VI. — THE OCEAN.— Byron. Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean — roll ! Ten thousand fleets...; — upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed ; nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, When, for a moment, like a drop of rain,... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1849 - 320 pages
...take; but as for me — give me liberty, or give me death ! VI. — THE OCEAM.— Byron. Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean — roll ! Ten thousand fleets...; — upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed ; nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, When, for a moment, like a drop of rain,... | |
 | Literature - 1849 - 820 pages
...all his readers remember, runs thus : 382 The Corinne, or Italy, of Madame de Staèl. Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean — roll! Ten thousand fleets...; — upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage save his own, When, for a moment, like a drop of rain,... | |
 | English literature - 1849 - 540 pages
...boundless main, so peculiarly applicable to this region of the globe ! — Roll on, thou dark and deep blue ocean — roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over...shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage save his own, When for a moment, like a drop of rain,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1907 - 708 pages
...here." (Italics mine.) Compare the same thought in Madame de Staël, and also in Byron's lines : — Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks...shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed. His steps are not upon thy paths,— thy fields Are not a spoil for him. Unchangeable, save to... | |
 | Garland - 1850 - 152 pages
...mingle with the universe, and feel What 1 can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal. Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean —roll! Ten thousand fleets...shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain; A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, When for a moment like a drop of rain... | |
 | Eduard Fiedler - 1850 - 344 pages
...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...shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, When for a moment like a drop of rain... | |
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Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean — roll [ Ten thousand fleets 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... 
