...God's chosen work. While, of the former, existing in her melancholy ruins, we may sav with the poet: "The Niobe of nations, there she stands Childless and crownless in her voiceless woe;" we must say of the latter, that, instead of being childless and crownless, she reckons now, after centuries...

...shout aloud for ]oy ! " Fear : — " With noiseless foot she treads the marble floor." Grief: — " The Niobe of nations! there she stands Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe .' " " Oh ! pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers...

...Méditerranée. La Villa a quelquefois servi de ferme : elle appartient au roi de Naples. ITALY. " The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe." BYRON. THE bridge called the Ponte Sisto was constructed during the pontificate of Sixtus IV., from...

...shout aloud for joy ! " Fear : — " With noiseless foot she treads the marble floor." Grief: — " The Niobe of nations ! there she stands Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe .' " " Oh ! pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!"...

...and temples, Ye ! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. The Niobe of nations! there she stands, Childless...crownless, in her voiceless woe; An empty urn within her withereil hands, Whose holy dust was scatter'd long ago ; The Scipio's tomb contains no ashes now;...

...Yet Wliuse agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. "The Niobo of nations! there she stands. Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her wither'd hands "Whose holy dust was scatter:d long apo; The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now; The...

...Muses hushed their song forever. And " Now she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless wo; An empty urn, within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago." Thus to the stranger amid her ruins, do the golden days of Athens' pass in review. Beautiful as the...

...a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. The Niobe of nations ! there she stands,"1 Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her withcr'd hands, Whose holy dust was scatter'd long ago ; The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now ;...

...temples, Ye ! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. LXXIX. The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless...crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her wither'd hands, Whose holy dust was scatter'd long ago ; The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now ;...

...Galileo, the Columbia of the heavens. 3. The Niobe of nations, there she stands, Childless and crowoless, se, form the staple of the English language. " That is — BYRON. 4. Some village Hamdcn, that with dauntless breast The little tyraat of his fields withstood...