 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...  History in ruins, letters - Page 35by George Godwin - 1853Full view - About this book
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 578 pages
...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...mumbleth something, but what it is he heareth not. Egypt itself is now become the land of obliviousness and doteth. Her ancient civility is gone, and... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 576 pages
...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...mumbleth something, but what it is he heareth not. Egypt itself is now become the land of obliviousness and doteth. Her ancient civility is gone, and... | |
 | 1837 - 568 pages
...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...deserts, asketh of her who ' builded them, and she mumble th something, but what it is he ' heareth not."1 The other papers, now first presented to us... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - Periodicals - 1837 - 682 pages
...looketh unto Memphis and old Thebes ; while his sister, Oblivion, reclineth semi-somnous on a pyramid, making puzzles of Titanian erections, and turning...mumbleth something, but what it is, he heareth not.' Thus it is, that the position of our being defies all primary or ultimate inquiry. If we look back,... | |
 | John L. Stephens - Arabia, Roman - 1837 - 294 pages
...and turning old glories into dreams. History sinketh beneath her cloud. The traveller, as he passeth amazedly through those deserts, asketh of her who...mumbleth something, but what it is he heareth not." It is now more than three thousand years since the curse went forth against the land of Egypt. The... | |
 | 1837 - 704 pages
...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...pyramid, gloriously, triumphing, making puzzles of Titaniau erections, and turning old glories into dreams. 'History sinketh beneath her cloud. The traveller,... | |
 | John L. Stephens - Arabs - 1837 - 686 pages
...and old Thebes, while his sister Oblivion reclineth semi-sominous on a pyramid, gloriously triumphing and turning old glories into dreams. History sinketh beneath her cloud. The traveller, as he passeth amazedly through those deserts, asketh of her who builded them, and she mumblcth something,... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - Periodicals - 1837 - 644 pages
...Time sadly overcometh all things, and is now dominant, and sitteth upon a sphynx, and looketh unto Memphis and old Thebes ; while his sister, Oblivion, reclineth semi-somnous on a pyramid, making puzzles of Titanian erections, and turning old glories into dreamt. Hwtory sinketh beneath her... | |
 | Alexander Crawford Lindsay Earl of Crawford - Arab countries - 1838 - 436 pages
...Sphinx, and looketh upon Memphis and old Thebes, while his sister, Oblivion, reclineth demi-somnous on a Pyramid, gloriously triumphing, making puzzles...mumbleth something, but what it is he heareth not. " Egypt itself is now become the land of obliviousness and doteth. Her ancient civility is gone, and... | |
 | Alexander Crawford Lindsay Earl of Crawford - Arab countries - 1838 - 436 pages
...Sphinx, and looketh upon Memphis and old Thebes, while his sister, Oblivion, reclineth demi-somnous on a Pyramid, gloriously triumphing, making puzzles...History sinketh beneath her cloud. The traveller, as hepaceth amazedly through those deserts, asketh of her, Who builded them? and she mumbleth something,... | |
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