| John Barber - Elocution - 1828 - 310 pages
...written fiend. The world was void, The populous and the powerful was a lump, Seasonless, herbless r treeless, manless, lifeless— A lump of death, a...lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell down peacemeal; as they dropp'd They slept on the abyss without a surge— The waves were dead; the tides... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 452 pages
...written Fiend. The world was void, 70 The populous and the powerful was a lump, Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless — A lump of death —...still, And nothing stirred within their silent depths ; 75 Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell down piecemeal ; as they dropp'd... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1828 - 406 pages
...written Fiend. The world was void, The populous and the powerful was a lump, Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless — A lump of death —...rivers, lakes, and ocean all stood still, And nothing stirr'd within their silent depths ; Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 414 pages
...clay. The rivers, lakes, and ocean all stood still, And nothing stirred within their silent depths ; 75 Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea, And their...down piecemeal ; as they dropp'd They slept on the abyss without a surge — The waves were dead ; the tides were in their grave, The moon their mistress... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 418 pages
...and the powerful was a lump, Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless— A lump of death—a chaos of hard clay. The rivers, lakes, and ocean all...still, And nothing stirred within their silent depths; 75 Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell down piecemeal; as they dropp'd They... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1832 - 618 pages
...recollected the following strange lines, and almost fancied that such might be our own dismal fate: — " The rivers, lakes, and ocean, all stood still, And...sea, And their masts fell down piecemeal ; as they dropped, They slept on the abyss without a surge. The waves were dead ; the tides were in their grave... | |
| Joseph Emerson - Elocution - 1832 - 122 pages
...written Fiend. The world was void. The populous and the powerful was a lump,70 Seasonless, hei bless, treeless, manless, lifeless, A lump of death — a chaos of hard clay. Tim river*, lakes and ocean all stood still, \nd nothing stirr'd within their silent depths ; Ships... | |
| James Hedderwick - Oratory - 1833 - 232 pages
...written Fiend! The world was void, The populous and the powerful was a lump, Seasonlcss, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless — A lump of death —...rivers, lakes, and ocean all stood still, And nothing stirr'd within their silent depths! Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell down... | |
| Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Readers - 1833 - 288 pages
...lump, A lump of death—a chaos of hard clay. Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless— The rivers, lakes, and ocean, all stood still, And nothing stirred within their silent depths; And their masts fell down piecemeal; as they dropped, Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea, The... | |
| Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
.... fiend'.* The world was void'; The populous and the powerful were a lump', Seasonless', herbless', treeless', manless', lifeless'— A lump of death'...all stood still', And nothing stirred within their silentb depths'. Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea', And their masts fell down piecemeal'; as... | |
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