 | Lyre - 1841 - 366 σελίδες
...AND thou hast walked about—how strange a story I—- In Thebes's streets three thousand years ago ! Those temples, palaces, and piles stupendous, Of which the very ruins are tremendous ! Speak, for thou long enough hast acted Dummy ! Thou hast a tongue—come—let us hear its tune!... | |
 | Elizabeth Parker (editor.) - 1841 - 354 σελίδες
...overthrow AND thou hast walked about, (how strange a story !) In Thebes's street three thousand years ago; Those temples, palaces, and piles stupendous, Of which the very ruins are tremendous. Speak! for thou long enough hast acted dummy,— Thou hast a tongue, come, let us hear its tune; Thou'rt... | |
 | Benjamin Moore Norman - 1843 - 414 σελίδες
...of the present generation of civilized men walking the streets of this once mighty city, and amid " Those temples, palaces, and piles stupendous, Of which the very ruins are tremendous." For a long time I was so distracted with the multitude of objects which crowded upon my mind, that... | |
 | Benjamin Moore Norman - 1843 - 408 σελίδες
...probably, of the present generation of civilized men walking the streets of this once mighty city, and amid “Those temples, palaces, and piles stupendous, Of which the very ruins are tremendous.” For a long time I was so distracted with the multitude of objects which crowded upon my mind, that... | |
 | Benjamin Moore Norman - 1843 - 390 σελίδες
...of the present generation of civilized men walking the streets of this once mighty city, and amid " Those temples, palaces, and piles stupendous, Of which the very ruins are tremendous." For a long time I was so distracted with the multitude of objects which crowded upon my mind, that... | |
 | Benjamin Moore Norman - 1843 - 396 σελίδες
...of the present generation of civilized men walking the streets of this once mighty city, and amid " Those temples, palaces, and piles stupendous, Of which the very ruins are tremendous." For a long time I was so distracted with the multitude of objects which crowded upon my mind, that... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 482 σελίδες
...thousand years ago; When the Memnonium was in all its glory, And Time had not begun to overthrow 36* Those temples, palaces, and piles stupendous, Of which the very ruins are tremendous. Speak ! for thou long enough hast acted dummy; Thou hast a tongue — come, let us hear its tune; Thou'rt... | |
 | Miles Gerald Keon - 1847 - 120 σελίδες
...his more than royal residence. Those alone who have been in Italy, and who have wandered through " Those temples, palaces, and piles stupendous, Of which the very ruins are tremendous," can form any adequate idea of the majestic edifices in which the ancient Romans lived; and which were,... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders, Joshua Chase Sanders - 1855 - 472 σελίδες
...of the present generation of civilized men, walking the streets of this once mighty city, and amid " Those temples, palaces, and piles stupendous, Of which the very ruins are tremendous." 6. For a long time I was so distracted with the multitude of objects which crowded upon my mind, that... | |
 | Michigan State Agricultural Society - 1856 - 850 σελίδες
...developed: of which, "The silent pillar, lone and gray," the obelisks and catacombs of ancient Egypt, and "Those temples, palaces, and piles stupendous, Of which the very ruins are tremendous," stand as imperishable monuments. By its operation the prison bars have been broken, and the oppressed... | |
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Those temples, palaces, and piles stupendous, Of which the very ruins are tremendous.' " The class are asked if they know anything of the author of these lines, and of the traveller Belzoni; and having stated such facts as they have been able to procure... 
