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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. "
Observations on a Tour Through the Highlands and Part of the Western Isles ... - Page 122
by Thomas Garnett - 1811
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Time's Telescope for ... ; Or, A Complete Guide to the Almanack

1818 - 400 pages
...and by the operation of volcanic fires. What does not fade ? the tower, that long had stood The crash of thunder and the warring winds, Shook by the slow...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,...
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Churchill, 1764, to Johnson, 1784

Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 498 pages
...universal structure of nature ; and he rises from great to greater objects with a climax of sublimity. " What does not fade ? the tower that long had stood...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,...
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A Walk Round Dorchester;: Containing an Account of Every Thing Worthy the ...

J. Criswick - 1820 - 178 pages
...piece of gold lace with the wires, thinks the tumulus to have been that of a Druid. -.**; CORFE CASTLE. What does not fade ? The tower that long had stood...winds, Shook by the slow, but sure destroyer, TIME, Now bangs in doubtful ruins o'er its base. ARMSTKCNC. THE remains of this surprising Castle stand a little...
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The Pocket magazine of classic and polite literature. [Continued ..., Volume 6

1820 - 390 pages
...undergone, it (till presents an angust and imposing aspect. " The tower that long hath stood The crack of thunder, and the warring winds, Shook by the slow but sure destroyer Time, Now hangs in douhtful ruins o'er its hase, And flinty pyramids and walls of brass Dc-cend. The Babylonian spires...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 9

John Aikin - 1821 - 314 pages
...rigidity of the larger ones, the progress of the human, body from infaucy to eld age is accounted for. What does not fade ? the tower that long had stood...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...
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A Manual of Chemistry: Containing the Principal Facts of the ..., Volume 1

William Thomas Brande - 1821 - 806 pages
...happily introduced very similar ideas : What does not fade? the tower that long had stood The crash of thunder and the warring winds, Shook by the slow,...destroyer, Time, Now hangs in doubtful ruins o'er its base ; And flinty pyramids, and nails of brass, Descend : the Babylonian spires are sunk ; Achaia, Rone,...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - 1822 - 320 pages
...laws have changed, Nestor might now the fates of Troy relate ; And Homer live immortal as his song. What does not fade? The tower that long had stood...winds, Shook by the slow but sure destroyer Time, 7 According to Dr. Darwin, the immediate cause of old ast" seems to reside in the inirritahility of...
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A dictionary of quotations from the British poets, by the author of The ...

British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...struggling to get loose, is going, Scarce now possess'd, so suddenly 'tis gone. Young's Night noughts, n. 4. What does not fade ? the tower that long had stood...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...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...Troy relate; And Homer live immortal as his song. [stood What does not fade ? The tower that long had doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To...laborious days ; is. t the fair guerdon when we hope And flinty pyramids, and walls of brass, Descend: the Babylonian spires are sunk; Achaia, Rome, and...
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The Pamphleteer, Volume 25

1825 - 546 pages
...father Paul has not been realized, for alas ! as Armstrong says truly, beautifully and pathetically, What does not fade? The tower that long had stood...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...
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