 | Henry Pemberton - Evolution - 1902 - 420 pages
...by the slow but sure destroyer Time, Now hangs in doubtful ruins o'er its base, And flinty paramids and walls of brass Descend. The Babylonian spires...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 learning,... | |
 | Henry Pemberton - Evolution - 1902 - 416 pages
...slow but sure destroyer Time, Now hangs in doubtful ruins o'er its base, And flinty paramids and walla of brass Descend. The Babylonian spires are sunk ;...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 learning,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1902 - 864 pages
...sure destroyer Time, Now hangs in doubtful nuns o'er its base, And flinty pyramids and walls of bras-, Chambers Robert" Robert Chambers( tottering empires crush by their own weight. This huge rotundity we tread grows old ; And all those... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1903 - 534 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... | |
 | P. Garrett - American literature - 1910 - 872 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 if it be too much or indiscreetly... | |
 | George Douglas - English poetry - 1911 - 212 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... | |
 | Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland) - 1913 - 752 pages
...long had stood The crush of thunder and the warring winds, Shook hy 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 worlds... | |
 | 1921 - 498 pages
...thunder and the warring winds, Shook by the slow but sure destroyer Time, Now hangs in doubtful rums o'er its base, And flinty pyramids and walls of brass...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 Kemp Philp - 464 pages
...The crush of thunder and the warring winds, Shook by the slow but sure destroyer. Time, Now hanjrs in doubtful ruins o'er its base, And flinty pyramids and walls of brass Descend. Embosomed amid the finest scenery in Kent, this once strong pile stands also in a very favourable position... | |
 | Iolo Aneurin Williams - English literature - 1924 - 252 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... | |
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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.... 
