| John Hood - 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... | |
| Robert Gordon Latham - 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 as boundless, and our souls as free. Far as the breeze can bear the billow's foam, Survey our empire and behold our home. These... | |
| 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 as boundless, and our souls as free. Far as the breeze can bear the billow's foam, Survey our empire and behold our home. These... | |
| George Matthews - 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,... | |
| Charles Walton Sanders - 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.... | |
| 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 as boundless, and our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, or billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home. 5. An... | |
| 1847 - 540 pages
...once more, And the waves bound beneath me, as a steed That knows his rider! BYRON'S Childe Harold. 4. O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our homes as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Behold our empire and survey our home... | |
| 1847 - 526 pages
...once more, And the waves bound beneath me, as a steed That knows his rider! BYRON'S Childe Harold. 4. O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our homes as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Behold our empire and survey our home... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1848 - 428 pages
...awake ; Oh ! where is Lethe's fabled stream ? My foolish heart be still, or break. J A CORSAIR SONG. 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! These... | |
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