More graceful than her own. His wandering step Obedient to high thoughts, has visited The awful ruins of the days of old : Athens, and Tyre, and Balbec, and the waste Where stood Jerusalem, the fallen towers Of Babylon, the eternal pyramids, Memphis and... Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 1391820Full view - About this book
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...Obedient to high thoughts, has visited The awful ruins of the days of old : Athens, and Tyre, and Balbee, and the waste Where stood Jerusalem, the fallen towers...columns, and wild images Of more than man, where marble demons watch The Zodiae's brazen mysterv, and dead men Hang their mute thoughts on the mute walls around.... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - Fore-edge painting - 1847 - 578 pages
...More graceful than her own. His wandering step, Obedient to high thoughts, has visited The awful ruins of the days of old : Athens, and Tyre, and Balbec,...on alabaster obelisk, Or jasper tomb, or mutilated sphinx, Dark Ethiopia on her desert hills Conceals. Among the ruined temples there, Stupendous columns,... | |
| James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1847 - 344 pages
...More graceful than her own. His wandering step, Obedient to high thoughts, has visited The awful ruins of the days of old— Athens, and Tyre, and Balbec,...on alabaster obelisk Or jasper tomb, or mutilated Sphinx — Dark Ethiopia on her desert hills Conceals. Among the ruined temples there, Stupendous columns,... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1847 - 638 pages
...More graceful than her own. His wandering step, Obedient to high thoughts, has visited The awful ruins of the days of old : Athens, and Tyre, and Balbec,...Jerusalem, the fallen towers Of Babylon, the eternal pj'ramids, Memphis and Thebes, and whatsoe'er of strange, Sculptur'd on alabaster obelisk, Of jasper... | |
| Ralph Nicholson Wornum - Painting - 1847 - 520 pages
...imposing grandeur of its works now so impressive upon the modern traveller along the banks of the Nile. The Eternal Pyramids, Memphis and Thebes, and whatsoe'er...on alabaster obelisk, Or jasper tomb, or mutilated Sphinx, Dark Ethiopia on her desert hills Conceals.* The history of art in Egypt may be divided into... | |
| Ralph Nickolson Wornum - 1847 - 534 pages
...imposing grandeur of its works now so impressive upon the modern traveller along the banks of the Nile. The Eternal Pyramids, Memphis and Thebes, and whatsoe'er...on alabaster obelisk, Or jasper tomb, or mutilated Sphinx, Dark Ethiopia on her desert hills Conceals.* The history of art in Egypt may be divided into... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1849 - 406 pages
...graceful than her own. ,\ His wandering step, Obedient to high thoughts, has visited The awful ruins of the days of old : Athens, and Tyre, and Balbec,...on alabaster obelisk, Or jasper tomb, or mutilated sphinx. Dark Ethiopia on her desert hills Conceals. Among the ruined temples there, Stupendous columns,... | |
| Francis Lister Hawks - Bible - 1850 - 462 pages
...Obedient to high thoughts, has visited The awful ruins of the days of old : Athens, and Tyre, and Balbcc, and the waste Where stood Jerusalem, the fallen towers...pyramids, Memphis and Thebes, and whatsoe'er of strange Scupltured on alabaster obelisk, Or jasper tomb, or mutilated sphinx, Dark Ethiopia on her desert hills... | |
| Encyclopaedia - 1852 - 482 pages
...either from their situation, history, or monuments. Our imaginary pilgrimage will carry us to— " the eternal pyramids ; Memphis and Thebes, and whatsoe'er of strange, Sculptured on alabaster obelisk, Dark Ethiopia on her desert hills Or jasper tomb, or mutilated sphinx: Conceals, among the ruined temples... | |
| Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...part of sight, And rose where'er I turn'd my eye, The morning star of memory. BYBON. Among the ruin'd temples there, Stupendous columns, and wild images Of more than man, where marble demons watch The Zodiac's brazen mystery, and dead men Hang their niiite thoughts on the mute walk... | |
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