 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 612 pages
...its base, And flinty pyramids, and walls of brass, Deseend ; the Babylonian spires are sunk; Aehaia, Rome, and Egypt moulder down. Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires erush by their own weight. Armstrong's Art of Preserving Health. Time, as he passes us, has a dove's... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 574 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,...empires rush by their own weight. This huge rotundity wo tread grows old, And all those worlds that roll around the Sun, The Sun himself, shall die, and... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 578 pages
...and walls uf brass, Deseend : the Babylonian spires are sunk ; Aehaia, Home, and Egypt, moulder.down. Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering...empires rush by their own weight. This huge rotundity we trend grows old, And all these worlds that roll around the Sun, The Sun himself, shall die, and aneient... | |
 | John Armstrong, John Dyer, George Gilfillan, Matthew Green - 1858 - 314 pages
...o'er its base. And flinty pyramids, and walls of brass, Descend: the Babylonian spires are sunk; 546 Achaia, Rome, and Egypt moulder down. Time shakes...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... | |
 | John Armstrong, John Dyer, George Gilfillan, Matthew Green - 1858 - 314 pages
...And flinty pyramids, and walls of brass, Descend: the Babylonian spires are sunk; 54 c Achaia, Rorne, and Egypt moulder down. Time shakes the stable tyranny...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... | |
 | Edward Hitchcock - 1859 - 628 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." — Akenside. If we turn now our thoughts away from man's dissolution,... | |
 | Edward Hitchcock - 1860 - 400 pages
...ba$e; And flinty pyramids and walls of brass Descend ; the Babylonian spires are sunk ; Achain, Home, and Egypt moulder down. Time shakes the stable tyranny...grows old, And all those worlds that roll around the suu. The suu himself shall die, and undent night Agaiu iuvolve the desolate abyss."— Akenside. If... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1860 - 250 pages
...Time, Now hang, 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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1860 - 624 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 worlds that roll around the sun, The sua himself shall die, and ancient night Again involve the desolate abyss." Concurrently with this... | |
 | 1860 - 966 pages
...is already putting on the white hairs of senility. It would seem to be quite true that — " Tliis huge rotundity we tread grows old, And all those worlds that roll around the eun, The sun himself shall die, and ancient night Again involve the desolate abyss." Concurrently with... | |
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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. 
