 | Ina Russelle Warren - 1897 - 324 pages
...its base. The 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 Involve the desolate abyss : Till the great Father through the lifeless gloom Extend his arm to light... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 540 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...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... | |
 | Henry Pemberton - 1902 - 420 pages
...Time, Now hangs in doubtful ruins o'er its base, And flinty paramids and walls of brass Descend. The Babylonian spires are sunk ; Achaia, Rome and Egypt...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
...Time, Now hangs in doubtful nuns o'er its base, And flinty pyramids and walls of bras-, Descend. The bert" Robert Chambers( crush by their own weight. This huge rotundity we tread grows old ; And all those worlds that roll... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 860 pages
...Time, Now hangs in doubtful ruins o'er its base, And flinty pyramids and walls of brass Descend. The stor of this noble lord frowns 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... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1903 - 534 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...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... | |
 | George Douglas - 1911 - 212 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 thro' the lifeless gloom Extend his arm to light... | |
 | 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
...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. This huge rotundity we tread grows old And all those worlds that roll around... | |
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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. 
