 What then is to insure this pile which now towers above me from sharing the fate of mightier mausoleums? The time must come when its gilded vaults, which now spring so loftily, shall lie in rubbish beneath the feet ; when, instead of the sound of melody...  The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent - Side 242af Washington Irving - 1868 - 507 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Washington Irving - 1836 - 250 sider
...embalmment? The remains of Alexander the Great have been scattered to the wind, and his empty sarcophagus is now the mere curiosity of a museum. " The Egyptian...shall lie in rubbish beneath the feet ; when, instead of the sound of melody and *Sir Thomas Brown. praise, the wind shall whistle through the broken arches,... | |
 | Sir John Rose Cormack - 1836 - 210 sider
...Lawyer.1 " Make mummy of my flesh, and sell me to the apothecaries." Shirley's Bird in the Cage? " The Egyptian mummies, which Cambyses or time hath spared, avarice now consumeth. Mummy is become merchandize, Mizraim cures wounds, and Pharaoh is sold for balsams." Sir Thomas Browne's... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1839 - 362 sider
...The remains of Alexander the Great', have been scattered to the wind', and his empty sarcophagus'' is now the mere curiosity of a museum'." " The Egyptian...Pharaoh is sold for balsams'." What', then', is to ensure this pile which now towers above me', from sharing the fate of mightier mausoleums'?d The time... | |
 | John Alonzo Clark - 1840 - 588 sider
...take my leave of this grand structure, my reflections were not unlike those of a visitor, who says : " What, then, is to insure this pile, which now towers...gilded vaults, which now spring so loftily, shall be in rubbish beneath the feet; when, instead of the sound of melody and praise, the wind shall whistle... | |
 | John Alonzo Clark - 1840 - 476 sider
...my leave of this grand structure, my reflections were not unlike those of a visitor, who says: — " What, then, is to insure this pile, which now towers...gilded vaults, which now spring so loftily, shall be in rubbish beneath the feet; when, instead of the sound of melody and praise, the wind shall whistle... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1840 - 514 sider
...consistences, to attend the return of their souls. But all was vanity, feeding the wind and folly. The Egyptian mummies, which Cambyses, or time hath spared, avarice now consumeth. Mummy has become merchandise, Mizraim cures wounds, and Pharaoh is sold for balsams. " In vain do individuals... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1841 - 306 sider
...consistencies to attend the return of their souls. But all was vanity, feeding the wind, and folly. The Egyptian mummies, which Cambyses or time hath spared, avarice now consumeth. Mummy is become merchandise. Mizriam cures wounds, and Pharaoh is sold for balsams."* .... "There is... | |
 | David Hoffman - 1841 - 382 sider
...again, hath the same Sir Thomas Brown beautifully said, 'all is vanity, feeding the wind, and folly: for the Egyptian mummies, which Cambyses, or time hath spared, avarice now consumeth. Mummy hath become merchandise, Misraim cures wounds, and Pharaoh is sold for balsams /' And though... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1841 - 346 sider
...consistences, to attend the return of their souls. But all was vanity, feeding the wind, and folly.(169) The Egyptian mummies, which Cambyses or time hath spared, avarice now consumeth. Mummy is become merchandize ; Mizraim cures wounds, and Pharaoh is sold for balsams. (l70) In vain... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1842 - 386 sider
...The remains of Alexander the Great', have been scattered to the wind', and his empty sarcophagusb is now the mere curiosity of a museum'.' " The Egyptian...and Pharaoh is sold for balsams'." What', then', is toensure this pile which now towers above me', from sharing the fate of mightier mausoleums'?d The... | |
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