 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 - Page 75by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819Full view - About this book
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...rock-built cities, bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, decision. Two travellers of such a cast, And on their...Now talked of this, and then of that ; Discoursed of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed in all Rave thee— Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage,... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 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...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,... | |
 | Quaver - Songs - 1844 - 552 pages
...built cities, bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble in their capitals, — The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title...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,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator thé arc thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 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...waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires ', chang'd in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage,... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch, William Russell - Elocution - 1845 - 424 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...waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, chang'd in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage,... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Anatomy - 1845 - 330 pages
...-built cities, bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble, in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator, the vain...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,... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 494 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...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,... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1845 - 492 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...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,... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 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...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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