 O'ER the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home!  Tom Cringle's Log - Page 253by Michael Scott - 1834 - 384 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Gordon Latham - English language - 1843 - 236 pages
...Couplet. Observe in each couplet the last syllable of each line : these are said to rhyme to each other. O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts...behold our home. These are our realms, no limits to our sway — Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey. The next extract is a stanza of Gray's Elegy,... | |
 | 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...behold our home. These are our realms, no limits to our sway— Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey. The next extract is a stanza of Gray's Elegy, where,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - 560 pages
...blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home ! These are our realms, no limils to their sway — Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey. Ours the wild life in tumult still... | |
 | 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...our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home." BYRON. As Columbus sought his apartment, soon... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Joseph Holt Ingraham - 1845 - 74 pages
...to my ears. I feel exhilarated. Do you remember Byron's fiae lines, •• . :i!% • 'O'et the g'ad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless and our soula as free) For as the breetes waft the billow's foam, Survey our Empire and behold our home !'... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1842 - 316 pages
...of the accent from its regular occurrence, it often attended with fine effect in the reading. Thus, 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. 5. An immediate succession of several accented... | |
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