 | 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 - 626 pages
...recollected the following strange lines, arid 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... | |
 | 1817 - 608 pages
...world was void, The populous and the powerful was a lump, Seasonless, herbless, treeless, mnnless, lifeless — A lump of death — a chaos of hard clay....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,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Bookbinders - 1815 - 324 pages
...written Fiend. The world was void, The populous and the powerful was a lump, Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless — A lump of death —...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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1816 - 88 pages
...written Fiend. The world was void, The populous and the powerful was a lump, Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless — A lump of death —...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... | |
 | English literature - 1816 - 696 pages
...the powerful was a lump, Seasonless, herblexs, treeless, numkss, lifeless—*• A lump of death—a chaos of hard clay. The rivers, lakes, and ocean all stood still, And nothing stirred witliiu their silent depths; Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell down piecemeal;... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1816 - 674 pages
...Fiend. The world was void. The populous and the powerful was a lump, .. '• . Seasonless, herWess, treeless, manless, lifeless — A lump of death — a chaos of hard clay. SfoS* The rivers, lakes, and ocean all stood still, And nothing stirred within their silent depths... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1818 - 210 pages
...written Fiend. The world was void, The populous and the powerful was a lump, Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless — A lump of death —...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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1818 - 216 pages
...written Fiend. The world was void, The populous and the powerful was a lump, Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless — A lump of death —...And their masts fell down piecemeal; as they dropp'd The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave, The moon their mistress had expired before ; The... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1820 - 306 pages
...written Fiend. The world was void, The populous and the powerful was a lump, Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless — A lump of death —...depths ; Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea, They slept on the abyss -without a surge — The waves were dead ; the tides were in their grave, The... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1821 - 478 pages
...written Fiend. The world was void, The populous and the powerful was a lump, Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless— A. lump of death —...depths ; Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea, &nd their masts fell down piecemeal ; as they dropp'd They slept on the abyss without a surge — The... | |
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The World was void, The populous and the powerful was a lump, Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless — A lump of death — a chaos of hard clay. 
