 | John Armstrong (Physician & Poet.) - 1880 - 692 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...of brass, Descend: the Babylonian spires are sunk; 540 Achaia, Rome, and Egypt moulder down. Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1881 - 842 pages
...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... | |
 | Readers - 1883 - 804 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 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... | |
 | Charles F. Beezley - Literature - 1891 - 436 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 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... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1896 - 794 pages
...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... | |
 | 1897 - 318 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Ina Russelle Warren - Medicine - 1897 - 324 pages
...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 - Literature - 1898 - 542 pages
...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...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 worlds... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1902 - 860 pages
...long had stood The crush of thunder and the warring winds. Shook by the slow but sure destroyer Time, ke the Genius of the Constitution. From the tapestry...with indignation at the disgrace of his country. In tottering empires crush by their own weight. This huge rotundity we tread grows old : And all those... | |
 | Henry Pemberton - Evolution - 1902 - 420 pages
...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...down. Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires rush by their own weight." • THE empire of Rome, with its civilization and its... | |
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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.... 
