 | Thomas Campbell - 1848 - 452 pages
...brass, Descend : the Babylonian spires are sunk ; Achaia, Rome, and Egypt moulder down. Time snakes the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires...roll around the sun, The sun himself, shall die." best blank-verse writers of the age ; and he will be found free from their most striking defects. He... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1848 - 468 pages
...brass, Descend : the Babylonian spires are sunk ; Achaia, Rome, and Egypt moulder down. Time snakes the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires...roll around the sun, The sun himself, shall die." He may, in some points, be compared advantageously with the best blank-verse writers of the age ; and... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...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,...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 - 1851 - 764 pages
...its base, And flinty pyramids and walls of brass Descend. The Babylonian spires are sunk ; Achala, Rome, and Egypt moulder down. Time shakes the stable...The sun himself shall die, and ancient night Again in volve the desolate abyss, Till the great Father, through the lifeless gloom, Extend his arm to light... | |
 | Edward Hitchcock - 1851 - 418 pages
...base; And flinty pyramids and nails of brass Descend; the Babylonian spires are sunk; Ach:ii;i. Home, and Egypt moulder down. Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones; And tottering empires rusti by their own weight This huge rotundity we tread grows old, And all those worlds that roll around... | |
 | Henrietta Dumont - 1852 - 330 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 stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires crush by their own weight. Armstrong. The clock upon the mantel-piece is ticking ; Thus hour by hour... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pages
...ruins o'er its base. And flinty pyramids , and walls of brass, Descend; the Babylonian spires are sank; Achaia, Rome, and Egypt moulder down. Time shakes...the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires crush by their own weight. Tbis huge rotundity we tread grows old; And all those worlds that roll around... | |
 | Hugh ANDERSON (of Bratton, Wilts.) - 1854 - 490 pages
...note, written in a certain Pavilion. But oh, my friend, what times have passed since you left this — Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires rush by their own weight. ' Everything in the condition of mankind announces the approach of some great crisis, for which nothing... | |
 | Hugh ANDERSON (of Bratton, Wilts.) - 1854 - 482 pages
...note, written in a certain Pavilion. But oh, my friend, what times have passed since you left this — Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires rush by their own weight. 'Everything in the condition of mankind announces the approach of some great crisis, for which nothing... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1855 - 232 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." There is a sound of solemn sadness in the saying, that the glory of man... | |
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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. 
