 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 860 pages
...long had stood The crush of thunder and the warring winds. Shook by the slow but sure destroyer Time, ke the Genius of the Constitution. From the tapestry...with indignation at the disgrace of his country. In crush by their own weight. This huge rotundity we tread grows old : And all those worlds that roll... | |
 | Henry Pemberton - 1902 - 420 pages
...by the slow but sure destroyer Time, Now hangs in doubtful ruins o'er its base, And flinty paramids and walls of brass Descend. The Babylonian spires...thrones, And tottering empires rush by their own weight." * THE empire of Rome, with its civilization and its learning, was far advanced on the downward path... | |
 | Henry Pemberton - 1902 - 416 pages
...slow but sure destroyer Time, Now hangs in doubtful ruins o'er its base, And flinty paramids and walla of brass Descend. The Babylonian spires are sunk ;...thrones, And tottering empires rush by their own weight." * THE empire of Rome, with its civilization and its learning, was far advanced on the downward path... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 864 pages
...sure destroyer Time, Now hangs in doubtful nuns o'er its base, And flinty pyramids and walls of bras-, Descend. The Babylonian spires are sunk ; Achaia,...the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires crush by their own weight. This huge rotundity we tread grows old ; And all those worlds that roll... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1903 - 534 pages
...long had stood The crash of thunder and the warring winds, Shook by the slow but sure destroyer Time, Now hangs in doubtful ruins o'er its base, And flinty...all those worlds that roll around the sun ; The Sun itself shall die, and ancient Night Again involve the desolate abyss, Till the great Father, through... | |
 | A. C. Coxhead - 1906 - 364 pages
...only of the murdered man are visible. The attitudes of the two children are pathetic. Armstrong. " Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones And tottering empires rush by their own weight." " Art of preserving Health." A picture quite unworthy of the artist; ill-conceived and ill-drawn. Were... | |
 | P. Garrett - 1910 - 872 pages
...long had stood The crush of thunder and the warring winds, Shook by the slow but sure destroyer Time, Now hangs in doubtful ruins o'er its base, And flinty pyramids and walls of brass Descend. Armstrong. Our body is a well-set clock, which keeps good time ; but if it be too much or indiscreetly... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1911 - 784 pages
...; And what it's worth ask death-beds, they can tell. 5257 Young : Night Thoughts. Night ii. Line 48 Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires rush by their own weight. 6258 Armstrong : A. of Preserving Health. Bk. ii. Line 542. Catch! then, Oh! catch, the transient hour... | |
 | Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland) - 1913 - 752 pages
...long had stood The crush of thunder and the warring winds, Shook hy the slow but sure destroyer time, Now hangs in doubtful ruins o'er its base ; And flinty...the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires crush by their own weight. This huge rotundity we tread grows old And all those worlds that roll around... | |
 | 1921 - 498 pages
...thunder and the warring winds, Shook by the slow but sure destroyer Time, Now hangs in doubtful rums o'er its base, And flinty pyramids and walls of brass...all those worlds that roll around the sun; The Sun itself shall die, and ancient Night Again involve the desolate abyss. Till the great Father, through... | |
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The tower that long had stood the crush of thunder and the warring winds, shook by the slow but sure destroyer time, now hangs in doubtful ruins o'er its base ; and flinty pyramids and walls of brass descend: — the Babylonian spires are sunk; Achaia,... 
