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. Cole's Scarborough Guide - Página 7de John Cole - 1825 - 106 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1802 - 302 páginas
...What does not fade ? The tower that long had stood The crush of thunder and the warring winds, 533 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,... | |
| James Storer - 1809 - 208 páginas
...materials ; but these have chiefly fallen to the ground. What does not fade ? The tower that long had stood The crush of thunder and the warring winds,...destroyer, Time, Now hangs in doubtful ruins o'er its base. ARMSTRONG. Above the gateway ¡sa spacious room, denominated the refectory, ascended by a... | |
| Ely Hargrove - 1809 - 454 páginas
...or twelve towers. " What does not fade > The tower that long had stood, " The crush of thunder, aud 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 ;... | |
| Ely Hargrove - 1809 - 448 páginas
...batter) within SCO yards of the eamc. in. t;xe CaiHe of " \Vhat does not fade :' The tower that long had stood, " The crush of thunder, and the warring winds. "Shook by the slow, but sure destroyer— Tune, " Now hangs in doubtful ruins o'er its base : " And flinty pyramids, and walls of brass " Descend... | |
| James Storer - 1810 - 492 páginas
...material«; but these have chiefly fallen to the ground. What does not fade Î The tower that long bad stood The crush of thunder and the warring winds,...destroyer, Time, Now hangs in doubtful ruins o'er its hase. ARMSTRONG. Above the gateway is a spacious room, denominated the refectory, ascended by a... | |
| Thomas Garnett - 1811 - 402 páginas
...grandeur, and of the all-destructive hand of Time. .",-? .. i. WHAT does not fade ? The tower that long had stood The crush of thunder, and the warring winds,...destroyer, Time, Now hangs in doubtful ruins o'er its base.* ON a small island, not far from the castle, called Fraoch Ettan, are likewise the ruins... | |
| John Britton, John Hodgson - 1812 - 1036 páginas
...Hist, of Knaresbrough, p. 43. •• The tower that long had stood, The crush of thunder, the waning winds ; Shook by the slow, but sure destroyer, time. Now hangs in doubtful ruins o'er its hase." ARMSrRONG. " From viewing these mouldering remains of pride and dominion" says the elegant... | |
| William Thomas Brande - 1817 - 162 páginas
...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 walls of brass Descend ; tlie Babylonian spires are sunk ; Achaia,... | |
| 1818 - 400 páginas
...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,... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 482 páginas
...great to greater objects with a climax of sublimity. " What does not fade ? the tower that long had stood " The crush of thunder and the warring winds,...destroyer, Time, " Now hangs in doubtful ruins o'er its base. "' And flinty pyramids, and walls of brass, " Descend : the Babylonian spires are sunk ;... | |
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