| Robert Gordon LATHAM - 1843 - 236 pages
...Observe in each couplet the last syllable of each line: these are said to rhyme to each other. U'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 our sway—... | |
| John Hood - Australia - 1843 - 502 pages
...anxieties with which my mind is filled. Would that I could realise those beautiful lines of Byron's : — " O'er the glad waters of the dark -blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free, Oh ! who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried, And danced in triumph o'er the waters wide ; The... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - Great Britain - 1843 - 492 pages
...CHAPTER IV. " O'er the glad waters of the dark-blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our 'soule as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire and behold our home!" The Conair. ONE is never fully aware of the extent of the movement that agitates the bosom of the ocean... | |
| 1843 - 486 pages
...Lodge of England. The Society is spreading and flourishing in every quarter of the globe. •« Fitr as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire and behold our home." Let us look at the good our Brethren are distributing far and wide ; at the charitable institutions... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1845 - 502 pages
...their persons, in an expedition that did not possess the ordinary means of security. CHAPTER XIV. " O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts...billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home." BYRON. As Columbus sought his apartment, soon after he reached the deck of the Holy Maria, Luis had... | |
| George Matthews - Denmark - 1845 - 116 pages
...Madame Neilson's, our old quarters; six months all but five days, since we left them to go North,— "O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless and our souls as free." We have roughed it through wild scenes and stormy seas, knocking the best out of every thing, with... | |
| 1845 - 532 pages
...already alluded to ? Wherefore, then, exclude Freemasons, of whose charity it may justly be said, •• Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam. Survey our empire, and behold our home ?'* Let our opponents look at the extensive metropolitan charities supported by Freemasons, where the... | |
| Freemasonry - 1845 - 530 pages
...already alluded to ? Wherefore, then, exclude Freemasons, of whose charity it may justly be said, " Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home (" Let our opponents look at the extensive metropolitan charities supported by Freemasons, where the... | |
| Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1845 - 312 pages
...of the accent from its regular occurrence, is often attended with fine effect in the reading. Thus. O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our sduls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, or billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home.... | |
| John Purdy - 1845 - 562 pages
...HON. CORPORATION OF TRINITT-UOUSE, ETC. " U'tii the glad waters of the dark blue Sea, Our thoughts us boundless, and our souls as free. Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Surrey our EMPIRE, and behold our HOME." {Lord Byron.) ADDENDA, &c. Page 22. A flashing light has been... | |
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