 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - Creation - 1849 - 146 pages
...attributable to anything on the surface of our planet, it is to the ocean and not to the land ! — Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean — roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his controul Stops with the shore : — upon the watery plain... | |
 | Literature - 1849 - 820 pages
...and as 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 sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; — upon the watery plain... | |
 | Alexander Melville Bell - Elocution - 1849 - 356 pages
...lonely shore ; There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar Roll on, thou deep, and dark, blue Ocean, — roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain! The armaments which thunderstrike the walls of rock-built cities The oak leviathans, whose huge... | |
 | Garland - 1850 - 152 pages
...before, To 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 sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin ; his control, Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The... | |
 | James Beniger - Computers - 2009 - 512 pages
...Processing Speed, and the Crisis of Control From Tradition to Rationality: Distributing Control 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. — Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage... | |
 | Herman Melville - Fiction - 1976 - 448 pages
...with its notion of 'coal' supplied from 'Blackheath'. 183. Lord Byron's Address to the Ocean Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain! (Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto VII, stanza 179) What is droned here 'through a port-hole'... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - Fiction - 1990 - 566 pages
...any thing out of the common track occur, was repeated no less than four times. Chapter XXI "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 wat'ry plain... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...intrudes By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but nature more, 1 Roll on, Dead together lie As if in love . . . There was no more hating then. And no mo vain; Man marks the earth with ruin, — his control Stops with the shore; 3 Time writes no wrinkles... | |
 | Romulus Linney - Drama - 1993 - 334 pages
...light is on Ada, seated in her chair, but lit with Byron, traveling as he does. Music. ADA: 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 — Wind again, rising. BYRON:... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Poetry - 1996 - 868 pages
...mingle with the Universe, and feel What I can ne'er express, yet can not all conceal. CLXXIX Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean - roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; 1605 Man marks the earth with ruin - his control Stops with the shore; - upon the watery plain... | |
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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 deed... 
