Millions of millions thus, from age to age, With simplest skill and toil unweariable, No moment and no movement unimproved, Laid line on line, on terrace terrace spread, To swell the heightening, brightening gradual mound, By marvellous structure climbing... Recreations in Geology - Seite 228von Rosina Maria Zornlin - 1852 - 396 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 Seiten
...Hermetically sealed, each in its shrine, A statue in this temple of oblivion ! Millions of millions thus, ushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of luxury...never learned to stray ; Along the cool, sequestered A point at first It peered above those waves ; a point so small I just perceived it, fixed where all... | |
| 1872 - 900 Seiten
...of oblivion ! Millions of millions thus, from age to age, With simplest skill and toil unwcariable, mpany marvellousstructureclimbing towards the day. A point at first tt peered above those waves ; a point... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 906 Seiten
...Hermetically sealed, each in its shrine, A statue in this temple of oblivion ! Millions of millions thus, to think their slender tops Were close against the...Than when I was a boy. POEMS OF CHILDHOOD. YOUTH. TH m arvellous structure climbing towards the day. been A point at first It peered above those waves ;... | |
| George Bruce - 1876 - 642 Seiten
...to form large islands, and become a secure habitation for man himself. " Millions of millions thus, from age to age, With simplest skill, and toil unweariable,...By marvellous structure climbing towards the day. Each wrought alone, yet all together wrought, Unconscious, not unworthy, instruments, By which a hand... | |
| Treasures - 1876 - 742 Seiten
.... ll^g.!1 ''•' THE LIVING PILE. 477 As Montgomery finely says : — " Millions of millions thus, from age to age, With simplest skill, and toil unweariable,...By marvellous structure climbing towards the day. Each wrought alone, yet all together wrought, Unconscious, not unworthy, instruments, By which a Hand... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 576 Seiten
...Hermetically sealed, each in its shrine, A statue in this temple of oblivion ! Millions of millions thus, from age to age, With simplest skill and toil unweariable,...swell the heightening, brightening, gradual mound, By marvelous structure climbing towards the day. . . A point at first It peered above those waves ; a... | |
| Frederick Whymper - 1877 - 366 Seiten
..." Millions of millions thus, from ago to age, With simplest skill and toil unwcaryablc, No momcr.t and no movement unimproved, Laid line on line, on...By marvellous structure climbing towards the day. . , 1 saw the living pile ascend, The mausoleum of its architects, Still dying upward as their labour... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 Seiten
...Hermetically sealed, each in its shrine, A statue in this temple of oblivion ! Millions of millions thus, from age to age, With simplest skill and toil unweariable, No moment and no movement unimproved, Ijaid line on line, on terrace terrace spread, To swell the heightening, brightening, gradual mound,... | |
| James Montgomery - 1879 - 572 Seiten
...Hermetically sealed, each in its shrine, A statue in this temple of oblivion ! Millions of millions thus, from age to age, With simplest skill and toil unweariable,...By marvellous structure climbing towards the day. Each wrought alone, yet all together wrought, Unconscious, not unworthy, instruments, By which a hand... | |
| John Ellor Taylor - 1879 - 364 Seiten
...man ! CHAPTEE IV. THE STORY OF A PIECE OF LIMESTONE. •Millions on millions thus, from age to ago, With simplest skill and toil unweariable, No moment and no movement unimproved, I/aid line on line, on terrace terrace spread, To swell the heightening, brightening, gradual mound,... | |
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