 Banqueting through the flowery vales ; — And, Jordan, those sweet banks of thine, And woods, so full of nightingales ! But nought can charm the luckless Peri ; Her soul is sad — her wings are weary — Joyless she sees the sun look down On that great...  Lalla Rookh: An Oriental Romance - Side 130af Thomas Moore - 1817 - 335 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1841 - 532 sider
...magnificent ruins and marvellous columns that stand upon the soil beneath which countless generations sleep, Flinging their shadows from on high, Like dials which the wizard time Hath raised to count his ages by. The physician boasts of his splendid illustrations of morbid anatomy,... | |
 | Samuel Osgood - 1842 - 426 sider
...magnificent ruins and marvellous columns that stand upon the soil beneath which countless generations sleep, Flinging their shadows from on high, Like dials which the wizard Time Hath raised to count his ages by. The physician boasts of his splendid illustrations of morbid anatomy,... | |
 | Benjamin Moore Norman - 1843 - 396 sider
...have been old in the days of Pharaoh. Before the eye of the imagination — COMPARISON. 177 " Their lonely columns stand sublime, Flinging their shadows...from on high, Like dials, which the wizard Time Had raised to count his ages by." The reader is already sufficiently familiar with the general structure... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 sider
...her wings are weary — Joyless she sees the sun look down On that great temple, once his own, Whose lonely columns stand sublime, Flinging their shadows...from on high, Like dials, which the wizard, Time, Had raised to count his ages by ! Yet haply there may lie conceal'd Beneath those Chambers of the Sun;... | |
 | Benjamin Moore Norman - 1843 - 418 sider
...days of Pharaoh. . Before the eye of the imagination — COMPARISON. 177 " Their lonely columns sta»d sublime, Flinging their shadows from on high, Like dials, which the wizard Time Had raised to count his ages by." The reader is already sufficiently familiar with the general structure... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1844 - 318 sider
...her wings are weary — Joyless she sees the sun look down On that great temple, once his own, Whose lonely columns stand sublime, Flinging their shadows...from on high, Like dials, which the wizard, Time, Had raised to count bis ages by 1 Yet haply there may lie conceal'd Beneath those Chambers of the Sun,... | |
 | Charles Sealsfield - 1844 - 376 sider
...now a ' proierb and an astonishment,' a dim spectre among the well known kingdoms of antiquity. " Her lonely columns stand sublime, Flinging their shadows from on high, Like dials which the wizard Time Has raised to count his ages by." It is the most instructive work of the kind ever issued — full... | |
 | Henry Brown - 1844 - 526 sider
...now a ' proverb and an astonishment,' a dimtpectr* among the well known kingdoms of antiquity. " Her lonely columns stand sublime, Flinging their shadows from on high, Like dials which the wizard Time Hu raised to count his ages by.** It is the most instructive work of the kind ever issued — full... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1844 - 514 sider
...and gorgeous as the sun she worshipped, hails our notice, and well does she deserve it. rt Her ruined columns stand sublime, Flinging their shadows from on high ; Like dials which the wizard Time, Had raised to count his age gone by." A traveller has described it as " a grand ruin," and it is most emphatically... | |
 | William W. Campbell - 1844 - 212 sider
...— now a . proverb and an astonishment,' a dim spectre among the we known kingdoms of antiquity "Her lonely columns stand sublime, Flinging their shadows from on high, Like dials which the wizard Time Has raised to count his ages by." It is the most instructive work of the kind ever issued — full... | |
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