 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1126 pages
...2, 1814. CANTO I. - neuun raaggiar dolore, Che ricordan! del tempo felice Neu« mfcaia. " I. " O'EE the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts...sway — Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey. Ours th« wild life in tumult still to range From toil to rest, and joy in every change. Oh, who can tell... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1104 pages
...myself, Most truly, And afïvîtionutely, His obedient sen-ant, BYRON. January 2, 18H. CANTO I. I. " O'ER the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts...souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows faim, Survey our empire, and behold our home } These are our realms, no limits to their sway — Our... | |
 | Charles Pope - 1854 - 712 pages
...desirable for facilitating the inquiry. PART THE TENTH. EUROPE. UNITED KINGDOM. GREATNESS. " Far аз the breeze can bear the billows' foam, Survey our empire and behold our home ! " From the official accounts, ill the year ended January 5, 1854, it appears that the number of vessels... | |
 | Douglas Goldring - English literature - 1920 - 248 pages
...by a shell. I have met people but little younger than myself who can read such lines as these — " O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free," without turning a hair. They find nothing in it. " There's nothing much, anyway, in calling the sea... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...it. BEDE — Heading of Chapter in his Ecclesiastical History. III. 15. ls (See also PUNY, PLUTARCH) A great man is made up of qualities that meet or...LOWELL — My Study Windows. Garfield. 4 The great man BYRON— The Corsair. Canto I. St. 1. 16 Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm. CANNING— The... | |
 | Ralph Wilhelm Bergengren - 1922 - 322 pages
...enthusiastically, " and doesn't it make you think of the beginning of Byron's lovely poem about the Corsair ? " ' O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, . Our thoughts...billows foam, Survey our empire and behold our home ! ' " But Dr. Dodder surveyed their empire with disgust and beheld their home with extreme disapproval.... | |
 | Isabel Anderson - Merchant marine - 1926 - 360 pages
...Byron's "Corsair" express the feeling perfectly: " O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea Our hearts as boundless and our souls as free, Far as the breeze...billows' foam Survey our empire and behold our home." 'The sailing ship as a common carrier has practically disappeared from the ocean. Where twenty years... | |
 | Gordon Stables - 1927 - 392 pages
...soldier's prayer, 'That I may prove the bravest knight, And wed the fairest fair.'" — Old Sung. " O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free." BVRON. [HE beautiful and affectionate child, little Lady Kosie ftew, kept up her heart till the very... | |
 | Tjeerd Popma - Dutch literature - 1928 - 444 pages
...leven op de baren tegenover het eentonige bestaan op het land verheerlijken. Ziehier de beginverzen. O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts...These are our realms, no limits to their sway — Our f lag the sceptre all who meet obey. Over 't effene vlak van den blauwenden vloed, Met gedachten zoo... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1914 - 728 pages
...oversea, are now doing their best to defend. Let me remind Mr. Collings of Byron's stirring lines : Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our Empire, and behold our Home. If Mr. Collings's creed be the true one, what becomes of our Empire Home? Does he suppose that destiny... | |
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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! 
