 | Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 páginas
...moment but in purehase of its worth ; And what it's worth ask death-beds, they can tell. Ib. n. 18. Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires rush by their own weight. Armstrong, Art of Preserving Health, n. 5 L'2. Catch ! then, O catch, the transient hour ; Improve... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1881 - 842 páginas
...The crush of thunder and the warring winds, J Shook by the slow but sure destroyer Time, Now hangs iu doubtful ruins o'er its base, And flinty pyramids and walls of brass Descend. T he Babylonian spires are sunk ; Achaia, Rome, and Egypt moulder down. Time shakes the stable tyranny... | |
 | 1883 - 804 páginas
...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. . Armstrong. Our body is a well-set clock, which keeps good time; but jf it be too much or indiscreetly... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1883 - 782 páginas
...; 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. Lln& 542 > Catch ! then, Oh ! catch, the transient... | |
 | Charles F. Beezley - 1891 - 436 páginas
...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. To-Morrow : Seek not to know to-morrow's doom ; That is not ours which is to come. The present moments... | |
 | Edward Slack - 1893 - 208 páginas
...more. The reign of the Ice-King has come ! — " What does not fade ?— This huge rotundity where tread grows old ; And all those worlds that roll around the sun, The sun himself, shall die." VIII. WOMAN — ACCORDING TO THE POETS. VIII. WOMAN— ACCORDING TO THE POETS. | HE woman question,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 794 páginas
...that long had 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. DR. JOHN ARMSTRONG ; Wrechs and Mutations of Time. Still thinking I had little time to live, My fervent... | |
 | Ina Russelle Warren - 1897 - 324 páginas
...warring winds. Shook by the slow but sure destroyer Time, Now hangs In doubtful ruins o 'er 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 tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 542 páginas
...long had stood The crash 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...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 páginas
...had long 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...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... | |
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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,... 
