 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - Creation - 1849 - 102 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
...and as all his readers remember, runs thus : 382 The Corinne, or Italy, of Madame de Stačl. 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 - 311 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
...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 - Business & Economics - 2009 - 508 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 - 443 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 - 511 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 - 1132 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... | |
 | Shridath S. Ramphal - Business & Economics - 1992 - 291 pages
...capacity to be life sustaining. Not for us Byron's circumspection from his work "Childe Harold": 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. A c AIN , it is the scale... | |
 | Romulus Linney - Drama - 1993 - 318 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:... | |
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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... 
