 | Henry Belcher (of Whitby.) - 1836 - 164 pages
...condition. " What does not fade? the tower that long hath stood The crash of thunder, and the warring winds, Shook by the slow but sure destroyer, Time, Now hangs in doubtful ruin o'er its base." The views from the West, or Mill Tower, and from the Keep are exceedingly fine,... | |
 | Abraham Gesner - 1836 - 348 pages
...does not fade ; the tower that long had *tood The crash of thunder and the warring winds, Shook hy 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, Home,... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 362 pages
...PRESERVING HEALTH. WHAT does not fade? the tower that long had stood 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,... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 448 pages
...schools, to write so that what he wrote might be comprchended. 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,... | |
 | 1838 - 1056 pages
...lines : — " What does not fadel The tower, that long had stood The crush of thunder and the warring winds, Shook by the slow but sure destroyer Time, Now hangs in doubtful ruin o'er its base, And flinty .pyramids and walls of brass Descend. Achaia, Rome, and Egypt, moulder... | |
 | Henry Neele - 1839 - 264 pages
...illustrious : — " What does not Fate ? The tower that long had stood The crashing thunder, and the warring winds, Shook by the slow, but sure destroyer, Time, Now hangs in doubtful ruin o'er its base ; And flinty pyramids, and walls of brass Descend. The Babylonian spires are sunk... | |
 | William Finden, Edward Francis Finden, William Andrew Chatto, William Beattie - 1842 - 294 pages
...pruning-hook." HARLECH CASTLE, NORTH WALES. " The tower that long had stood The crash of thunder and the warting winds, Shook by the slow but sure destroyer — Time, Now hangs in doubtful ruins o'er its base." HARLECH CASTLE, according to the Welsh historians, derives its origin from Maclgwyn Gwynedd,... | |
 | 1842 - 346 pages
...exclaim — ' What does not fade ? the tower that long had stood The crash of thundeV and the roaring winds, Shook by the slow, but sure destroyer, 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... | |
 | 1843 - 350 pages
...Shakspeare. WHAT does not fade ? The tower, that long hath stood The crush of thunder, and the warring winds, Shook by the slow but sure destroyer Time, Now hangs in doubtful ruin o'er its base : And flinty pyramids, and walls of brass Descend : the Babylonian spires are sunk... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...of Time,} I What does not fade ? The tower that long had stood The crush of thunder and the warring l the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not» base, And flinty pyramids and walls of brass Descend. The Babylonian spires are sunk ; Achala, Rome,... | |
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What does not fade ? The tower that long had stood 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. 
