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... appear- ance which must have been presented by these ex- traordinary monuments when perfect and peopled . When we contemplate these enormous remains , evidences though they may be of despotism and slavery , it is impossible to avoid a ...
... appear- ance which must have been presented by these ex- traordinary monuments when perfect and peopled . When we contemplate these enormous remains , evidences though they may be of despotism and slavery , it is impossible to avoid a ...
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... appear if it were cut down the middle from the top to the bottom , and one half of it pushed away so as to show what the inside is made of . Doubtless you know what a section means ( although many ladies do not ) ; and I need not point ...
... appear if it were cut down the middle from the top to the bottom , and one half of it pushed away so as to show what the inside is made of . Doubtless you know what a section means ( although many ladies do not ) ; and I need not point ...
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... appear as swal- lows ' nests against a rock , or , as Hope remarks , " beasts of prey on the carcass of a giant . ” " For time hath not rebuilt them , but upreared Barbaric dwellings on their shattered site , Which only make more ...
... appear as swal- lows ' nests against a rock , or , as Hope remarks , " beasts of prey on the carcass of a giant . ” " For time hath not rebuilt them , but upreared Barbaric dwellings on their shattered site , Which only make more ...
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... appears The little builder man ; by thee refined , And smiling high , to full perfection brought . Such thy sure rules , that Goths of every age , Who scorned their aid , have only loaded earth With laboured heavy monuments of shame ...
... appears The little builder man ; by thee refined , And smiling high , to full perfection brought . Such thy sure rules , that Goths of every age , Who scorned their aid , have only loaded earth With laboured heavy monuments of shame ...
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... appear most delicate , without finishing or softening off any part ; giving , in fine , to his statue a countenance capable of striking terror into the beholder . When the people saw this , it drew down first their merri- ment , but at ...
... appear most delicate , without finishing or softening off any part ; giving , in fine , to his statue a countenance capable of striking terror into the beholder . When the people saw this , it drew down first their merri- ment , but at ...
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Page 189 - You show us Rome was glorious, not profuse, And pompous buildings once were things of use; Yet shall, my lord, your just, your noble rules, Fill half the land with imitating fools ; Who random drawings from your sheets shall take; And of one beauty many blunders make...
Page 35 - Time sadly overcometh all things, and is now dominant, and sitteth upon a sphinx, and looketh unto Memphis and old Thebes, while his sister Oblivion reclineth semisomnous on a pyramid, gloriously triumphing, making puzzles of Titanian erections, and turning old glories into dreams. History sinketh beneath her cloud. The traveller as he paceth amazedly through those deserts asketh of her, who builded them ? and she mumbleth something, but what it is he heareth not.
Page 71 - And yet how lovely in thine age of woe, Land of lost gods and godlike men, art thou!
Page 103 - But when the rising moon begins to climb Its topmost arch, and gently pauses there ; When the stars twinkle through the loops of time, And the low night-breeze waves along the air The...
Page 21 - Behold yon huge And unhewn sphere of living adamant, Which, poised by magic, rests its central weight On yonder pointed rock : firm as it seems, Such is its strange and virtuous property, It moves obsequious to the gentlest touch Of him whose breast is pure ; but to a traitor, Though e'en a giant's prowess nerved his arm, It stands as fixed as Snowdon.
Page 156 - Streaming from off the sun like seraph's wings, Now yawns all desolate: now loud, now fainter, The gale sweeps through its fretwork, and oft sings The owl his anthem, where the silenced quire Lie with their hallelujahs quench'd like fire.
Page 47 - Memphis, was buried one hundred and thirty feet below the mound surface. Who knows but that the greater part of old Memphis, and of other glorious cities, lies almost unharmed under the sand? Who can say what armies of sphinxes, what sentinels of colossi, might start up on the banks of the river, or come forth from the hill sides of the interior, when the cloud of sand had been wafted away?
Page 30 - Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch, and of the houses thereof, and of the treasuries thereof, and of the upper chambers thereof, and of the inner parlours thereof, and of the place of the mercy seat, 12 And the pattern of all that he had by the spirit...
Page 36 - Dupin says, that if it were required to know how long a time they would take to cut the stones and move them from the quarries to the pyramid, a very few days would...
Page 103 - It will not bear the brightness of the day, Which streams too much on all years, man, have reft away.