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" Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore j upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, When, for a moment, like a drop... "
Random Sketches and Wandering Thoughts: Or, What I Saw in Camp, on the March ... - Page 57
by Bartholomew S. De Forest - 1866 - 324 pages
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Fourth Reader: For Common Schools and Academies

Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 288 pages
...before, To mingle with the Universe, and feel What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal. Boll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean ! roll .' Ten thousand...thee in vain : Man marks the earth with ruin' ; his control 3 Stops with the shore : upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed ; nor doth remain...
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Orthophony, Or, The Cultivation of the Voice, in Elocution: A Manual of ...

1851 - 312 pages
...His praise abroad!" Melancholy:—"Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste"— Grandeur:—" Eoll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain!" Anger: " And dar'st thou, then, To beard the lion in his den, The Douglas in his hall ? And...
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Cyclopedia of English Literature: a Selection of the Choicest ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pages
...before, To mingle with the universe, and feel What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal. Roll on, e restrain iny resentment tbee in vain ; Alan marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery...
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Tait's Edinburgh magazine, Volume 19

1852 - 782 pages
...apostrophise it as "oracular ocean !" in a stanza so far falling short of that magnificent one beginning— Koll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thce in vain, that we will враге the author the pain of seeing them in jnxta-position. The dreamy...
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Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 19

William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1852 - 776 pages
...it aa "oracular ocean!" in a stanza so far falling short of that magnificent one beginning Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain, that we will spare the author the pain of seeing them in juxta-position. The dreamy vision in...
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Second collection of instructive extracts: no.vi of a new series of school-books

Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 322 pages
...SCOTT. XVI.—The Ocean—an Image of Eternity. BOLL on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean—roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with rum—bis control Stops with the shore; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth...
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Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality

Edward Young - 1852 - 528 pages
...contains a beautiful apostrophe to the Ocean, reminding us of the finest strains of Lord Byron : Roll on, thou deep and dark -blue ocean — roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thco In vain. Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery...
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The forget me not: a selection of simple songs

Forget-Me-Not, Forget-me-not - 1853 - 138 pages
...before, To mingle with the universe, and feel What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal. Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll'. Ten thousand...sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin—his control The wrecks are all % deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's image, save his own,...
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The Baptist children's magazine (ed. by J.F. Winks).

Joseph Foulkes Winks - 1853 - 786 pages
...interesting to her, and she repeated, with lively sensations, that verse of the noble poet : — " Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean — roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man murks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are...
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McGuffey's Newly Revised Eclectic Fourth Reader: Containing Elegant Extracts ...

William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 344 pages
...mingle with the universe and feel ^" What I can ne'er express, yet can not all conceal!^ 2. Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll ^ Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in v& Man marks the earth with ruin, his +ccntri8** -^ J' Stops with the shore : upon the watery p!erv....
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