 | George Borrow - 1843 - 406 pages
...successor in power, have sunk beneath the earth, and are not to be found ; and the mosques of the Moor, the conqueror of the Goth, where and what are they...Druidic races ? Yonder : that pile of eternal stone ! We arrived at Arroyolos about seven at night. I took possession of a large two-bedded room, and,... | |
 | George Henry Borrow - 1843 - 408 pages
...successor in power, have sunk beneath the earth, and are not to be found ; and the mosques of the Moor, the conqueror of the Goth, where and what are they...Druidic races ? Yonder : that pile of eternal stone ! We arrived at Arroyolos about seven at night. I took possession of a large two-bedded room, and,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1843 - 624 pages
...successor in power, have sunk beneath the earth, and are not to be found ; and the mosques of the Moor, the conqueror of the Goth, where and what are they?...Druidic races ? Yonder : that pile of eternal stone !' — p. 118-121. On reaching Elvas Mr. Borrow was curious to examine the fortifications; but the... | |
 | S. Warrand - 1843 - 574 pages
...successor in power, have sunk beneath the earth, and are hot to be found ; and the mosques of the Moor, the conqueror of the Goth, where and what are they...Druidic races ? Yonder : that pile of eternal stone!' — p. 118-121. Soon after passing *he Spanish line Mr. Rorrow fell into company with a party of his... | |
 | George Borrow - 1843 - 408 pages
...successor in power, have sunk beneath the earth, and are not to be found; and the mosques of the Moor, the conqueror of the Goth, where and what are they...discoveries in medicine, and the foundations of modern comraerce; and where is the memorial of the Druidic races ? Yonder : that pile of eternal stone ! We... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew - 1843 - 604 pages
...but neither split nor crumbled it ; and Time, stern old Time, has rubbed it with his iron tooth, arid with what effect let those who view it declare. There...Druidic races ? Yonder : that pile of eternal stone !"— p. 118-124. On reaching Elvas Mr. Borrow was curious to examine the fortifications ; but the... | |
 | George Borrow - 1843 - 246 pages
...it stands, and he who wishes to study the literature, the learning, and the history of the nacient Celt and Cymbrian, may gaze on its broad covering,...Goth his liturgy, his traditions, and the germs of nob institutions ; the Moor his chivalry, his discoveries in medicine, and the foundations of modern... | |
 | 1843 - 1266 pages
...covering, and glean from that blank stone the whole known amount. The Roman has left behind him liis deathless writings, his history, and his songs: the...modern commerce: and where is the memorial of the Uruidic races? Yonder: that pile of eternal stone!' — p. 118-121. On reaching Elvas Mr Borrow was... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - 1843 - 606 pages
...gaze on its broad covering, and glean from that blank stone the whole known amount. The Roman has loll behind him his deathless writings, his history, and...chivalry, his discoveries in medicine, and the foundations ol modem commerce ; and where is the memorial of the Druidic races? Yonder: that pile of eternal stone... | |
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Earthquakes have heaved it, but its cope-stone has not fallen ; rain floods have deluged it, but failed to sweep it from its station ; the burning sun has flashed upon it, but neither split nor crumbled it ; and time, stern old time, has rubbed it with... 
