| 1847 - 606 strani
...art, and heroic in history. Voice» from her broken arches and her mouldering walls seem to say, " Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and columns, ye Whose agonies are evils of a day; A world is at your feel, a? fragile as your clay." Summoned... | |
| Samuel Eliot - 1849 - 576 strani
...preparation in the characteristics of the era we have passed. CHAPTER XI. CONQUEST AND CONDITION OF ITALY. " Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples! " BYRON, Childe Harold, IT. 78. "They are no more than links in.tho chain winding round the world."... | |
| John Hanbury Dwyer - 1850 - 318 strani
...ilead empires! and control In their shut breasts their petty misery. What are our woes and sufferance 7 Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, Ye ! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. The Niobe... | |
| John Murray (Firm), Octavian Blewitt - 1850 - 750 strani
...empires ! and control In their shut breasts their petty misery. What are our woes and sufferance ? Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples ! ye. Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. The Niobe... | |
| 1850 - 418 strani
...anil control In their shut breasts their petty misery. What are our woes and sufferance? Come and sc« The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones nnd temples. Yet Wliuse agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay.... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1851 - 352 strani
...dead empires ! and control In their shut breasts their petty misery. What are our woes and sufferance? Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, Ye ! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. LXXIX. The... | |
| 398 strani
...BAALBEC AND ITS HISTORY. " The foremost of the band is seen, An emir by his garb of green." — BYROX " Cypress and ivy, weed and wallflower grown, Matted...mass'd together, hillocks heap'd On what were chambers, arch-cruih'd columns strown In fragments, choked up vaults, and frescoefr steep'd Tn subterranean damps,... | |
| Kenelm Henry Digby - 1851 - 494 strani
...was enough to inspire a child with interest in the past. Ruins surrounded him. On all sides he saw " Cypress and ivy, weed, and wall-flower, grown Matted...mass'd together, hillocks heap'd On what were chambers, arch crush'd, column strown In fragments, choked-up vaults, and frescos steep'd In subterranean damps,... | |
| Ruins - 1852 - 464 strani
...empires ! and control In their shut breasts their petty misery. What are our woes and sufferance ? Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples. Ye ! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. "The Niobe... | |
| Jacob B. Wood - 1852 - 192 strani
...empires ! and control In their shut breasts their petty misery. What are our woes and sufferance 1 Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, Ye ! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. " The Niobe... | |
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