 | Christopher Biden - 1830 - 432 pages
...one hundred and fifty years before. The navy proved that the king had heroes equal to any service: " O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts...their sway— Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey. Ours the wild life in tumult still to range From toil to rest, and joy in every change. Oh, who can... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1830 - 436 pages
...wife 1 24. What remarkable wars commenced about this time ? CHAPTER VIII. THE HISTORY OF NORMANDY. O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts...billows foam, Survey our empire and behold our home. BYRON. 1. THE nations who successively invaded southern Europe from the ninth to the twelfth centuries,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1831 - 442 pages
...CANTO I, nessun maggior dolore. ' Che ricordarsi del tempo felice ' Nella miseriai '* Dante. "O*EB the glad waters of the dark blue sea, " Our thoughts...sway— " Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey. " Ours the wild life in tumult still to range "Frqin toil to rest, and joy in every change. "Oh, who... | |
 | Basil Hall - Conduct of life - 1831 - 340 pages
...correct representation of a gang of nautical highwaymen : — r' " O'er the glad waters of the dark-blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free,...foam, ,{ , • Survey our empire, and behold our home 1 These are our realms, no limits to their sway — •" Our flag the sceptre, all who meet obey —... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - Poets, English - 1832 - 384 pages
...CANTO THE FIRST. 1 nessun maggior dolore, Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria, " DANTE. I. " O'ER the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts...their sway — Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey. Ours the wild life in tumult still to range From toil to rest, and joy in every change. Oh, who can... | |
 | Michael Scott - Cuba - 1833 - 400 pages
...my last look of Santiago de Cuba. CHAPTER IV. THE CRUISE OF THE WAVE THE ACTION WITH THE SLAVER. " O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts...our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear the billow's foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home. These are our realms, no limits to their sway—... | |
 | Scotland - 1833 - 1034 pages
...they triumph over the weaknesses of mortal nature. TOM CRINGLE S LOG. CHAP. XVIII. THE CRUISE OF THE " O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts...our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear the billow's foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home. These are our realms, no limits to their sway—... | |
 | Giuseppe Pecchio - England - 1833 - 554 pages
...favourite subject of English Poetry— Courage and Intrepidity of the English Sailor — Cowper and Crabbe. O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts...and our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, or billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home." Byron's Cors<iu-. WHOEVER wishes to acquire... | |
 | Frederick Chamier - English fiction - 1833 - 250 pages
...Physician. . .2 v. 18mo. . > n V>' 74 y , , ' : :*,* LIFE OF A SAILOR. BT t A CAPTAIN IN THE NAVY. Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam— Survey our empire, and behold our home. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. r^ BYRON. NEW-YORK: -: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY J. * J. HARPER, NO. 82 CLIFF-STREET,... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...its branches Shut out the sun like night, and therefore seemed Fitting to shadow slumber. Middle — O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts...billows foam, Survey our empire and behold our home! Very low — Hark! they whisper: angels say, 'Sister spirit, come away.' l .'',' — The world recedes:... | |
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