 | Asa Humphrey - Literature - 1847 - 238 pages
...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...down. Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires rush by their own weight. This huge rotundity we tread, grows old ; And all those... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1848 - 468 pages
...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...sunk ; Achaia, Rome, and Egypt moulder down. Time snakes the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires rush by their own weight. This huge rotundity... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1848 - 452 pages
...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...sunk ; Achaia, Rome, and Egypt moulder down. Time snakes the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires rush by their own weight. This huge rotundity... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...long Lad 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...down. Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones ; And tottering empires crush by their own weight. This huge rotundity we tread grows old ; And all those... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...long had stood The crush of thunder and the warring winds, Shook by the slow but sure destroyer Time, ; Achala, Rome, and Egypt moulder down. Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires... | |
 | Edward Hitchcock - Religion - 1851 - 418 pages
...base; And flinty pyramids and nails of brass Descend; the Babylonian spires are sunk; Ach:ii;i. Home, and Egypt moulder down. Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones; And tottering empires rusti by their own weight This huge rotundity we tread grows old, And all those worlds... | |
 | Henrietta Dumont - Flower language - 1852 - 330 pages
...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...down. Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires crush by their own weight. Armstrong. The clock upon the mantel-piece is ticking... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...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...walls of brass, Descend; the Babylonian spires are sank; Achaia, Rome, and Egypt moulder down. Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - Books and reading - 1855 - 232 pages
...thunder and the warring winds, Shook by the sure but slow destroyer Time, Now hangs in doubtful ruin o'er its base, And flinty pyramids and walls of brass...down. Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires sink with their own weight." There is a sound of solemn sadness in the saying, that... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 610 pages
...had stood The erush 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, Deseend ; the Babylonian spires are sunk ; Aehaia, Rome, and Egypt moulder down. Time shakes the stable... | |
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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, Rome, and Egypt, moulder down.... 
