 | 1838 - 1056 pages
...o'er its base, And flinty .pyramids and walls of brass Descend. Achaia, Rome, and Egypt, moulder down. And tottering empires rush by their own weight. This...The sun himself shall die, and ancient night Again involve the desolate abyss, Till the great Father, through the lifeless gloom Extend his arm to light... | |
 | Henry Neele - 1839 - 264 pages
...Time, Now hangs in doubtful ruin o'er its base ; And flinty pyramids, and walls of brass Descend. The Babylonian spires are sunk ; Achaia, Rome, and Egypt...the stable tyranny of Thrones, And tottering Empires sink with their own weight : This huge rotundity we tread grows old, And all those worlds that roll... | |
 | 1842 - 622 pages
...its base, And flinty pyramid?, and walls of brass Descend ; the Babylonian spires are sunk, Achala, Rome and Egypt moulder down. Time shakes the stable...empires rush by their own weight. This huge rotundity on which we tread, £rows old, And all thos.; worlds that roll around the sun — The sun himself shall... | |
 | 1842 - 346 pages
...Time, Now hangs in doubtful ruins o'er its base, And flinty pyramid?, and walls of brass Descend ; the Babylonian spires are sunk, Achaia, Rome and Egypt moulder down. Time shakes tile stable tyranny of throne.% And tottering empires rush by their own weight. This huge rotundity... | |
 | 1843 - 350 pages
...Time, Now hangs in doubtful ruin o'er its base : And flinty pyramids, and walls of brass Descend : the Babylonian spires are sunk : Achaia, Rome, and Egypt...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...brass Descend. The Babylonian spires are sunk ; Achala, Rome, and Egypt moulder down. Time «hakes that wear the palmy crown Of patient faith, and yet so fiercely frown involve the desolate abyss, Till the great Father, through the lifeless gloom, Eit«nd his arm to light... | |
 | 1860 - 620 pages
...that it is already putting on the white hairs of senility. It would seem to be quite true that — " This huge rotundity we tread grows old, And all those...The sun himself shall die, and ancient night Again involve the desolate abyss." Concurrently with this change, the temperature of the globe is also reduced.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...spires arc sunk ; Achaia, Rome, and Hgypt moulder down. Time »hakes the stable tyranny of throne», a b X ; i he sun himself shall die, and ancient night Afjam involve the desolate abyss, Ы1 the great Father,... | |
 | 1844 - 778 pages
...Time, Now hangs in doubtful ruin o'er its base ; And flinty pyramids and walls of brass Descend. The Babylonian spires are sunk ; Achaia, Rome, and Egypt...the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires sink with theirown weight." It is a voice from heaven that tells us that all flesh is grass, and that... | |
 | Asa Humphrey - 1847 - 238 pages
...Time, Now hangs in doubtful ruins o'er its base. And flinty pyramids, and walls of brass, Descend : the Babylonian spires are sunk ; Achaia, Rome, and Egypt,...The sun himself, shall die ; and ancient Night Again involve the desolate abyss : Till the great FATHER through the lifeless gloom Extend his arm to light... | |
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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, Rome and Egypt moulder down. 
