 | Henry Moses - India - 1750 - 314 pages
...marks the earth with ruin— his control Stops with the shore; upon the watery plain The wrecks sre all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage,...drop of rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groanWithout a grave, unknelled, uneoffined, and unknown." BYnoN. Introduction Glance at Porto Santo.... | |
 | England - 1818 - 762 pages
...thousand fleets sweep over thec in vain ; Man marks the earth with, ruin — his control Stops with the shore; — upon the watery plain The wrecks are...Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown. 180. His steps are not upon thy paths,— thy fields Are not a spoil for him, — thou doit arise And... | |
 | England - 1838 - 882 pages
...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...into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unkneU'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown. " His steps are not upon thy paths,— thy fields Are not a spoil... | |
 | England - 1848 - 792 pages
...stanza especially — between what is promised and what is done. Weigh for a moment these lines — " Upon the watery plain, The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of mail's ravage save his own, When for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks in to thy depths with... | |
 | Scotland - 1818 - 806 pages
...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...Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown. 180. His steps are not upon thy paths,— thy fields Are not a spoil for him, — thou dost arise And... | |
 | 1830 - 604 pages
...holdwas, in consequence, filled with water ; indeed I never saw a more complete wreck. ' Upon the wat'ry plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain...like a drop of rain, He sinks into thy depths, with huhhling groan, Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown.' All hands were immediately set... | |
 | 1818 - 428 pages
...— his eonlr.o) TUB ANGLO-CAMBRIAN. Slops with the shore; — upon the watery plain 'f he wrecks aie all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, When, for a moment, like a drop of raio, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groin, Without u grave, unltnell'd, uuceffin'd, and unknown.... | |
 | 1821 - 440 pages
...thousand fleets sweep over thee in -vain ; Alan marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; — upon the watery plain The wrecks are...deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save kit own, When, for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1818 - 646 pages
...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 deed, nor doth remain Л shadow of man's ravage, save his own. When, for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks into thy... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 176 pages
...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...with bubbling groan , Without a grave , unknell'd , uncoffm'd , and unknown. CLXXX. His steps are not upon thy paths , — thy fields Are not a spoil... | |
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