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
| James Montgomery - 1860 - 420 Seiten
...seal'd, each in its shrine, A statue in this temple of oblivion ! Millions of millions thus, from ago to age, With simplest skill, and toil unweariable,...brightening gradual mound, By marvellous structure climbing tow'rds the day. Each wrought alone, yet all together wrought, Unconscious, not unworthy, instruments,... | |
| Selections - 1862 - 348 Seiten
...Hermetically sealed, each on its shrine A statue in this temple of oblivion I Millions of millions, thus from age to age, With simplest skill and toil unweariable,...spread, To swell the heightening, brightening, gradual mount By marvellous structure, climbing towards the day, Each wrought alone, yet all together wrought,... | |
| Home tutor - 1862 - 532 Seiten
...animalculte : — " Millions of millions thus, from age to nge, With simplest skill and toil vuiweariable, No moment and no movement unimproved, Laid line on...By marvellous structure climbing towards the day. Each wrought alone, yet all together wrought : Unconscious, not unworthy instruments By which a hand... | |
| Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 Seiten
...of oblivion ! Millions of millions thus, from age to age, With simplest skill, and toil unwoaryablo, No moment and no movement unimproved , Laid line on...brightening, gradual mound, By marvellous structure climbing tow'rds the day. Each wrought alone, yet all together wrought, Unconscious, not unworthy, instruments,... | |
| George Nicol Gordon, J. D. G. - 1863 - 322 Seiten
...appear as beautiful as bunches of red roses. The living insects build the tombs of past generations ' With simplest skill and toil unweariable No moment...unimproved, Laid line on line, on terrace, terrace spread." The tower of Babel, pyramids of Egypt, wall of China, English Docks — the mightiest works of the... | |
| Ocean lays - 1864 - 400 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, but all together wrought, Unconscious, not unworthy, instruments, By which a Hand... | |
| 1864 - 422 Seiten
...little task. Millions of millions thus, from age to age, With simplest skill, and toil unweariable, t No moment and no movement unimproved, Laid line on...brightening, gradual mound, By marvellous structure climbing toward the day. Omnipotence wrought in them, with them, by them ; Hence what Omnipotence alone could... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - 1867 - 142 Seiten
...this direction is much greater than a careless observer would suppose. " Millions of millions thus, from age to age, With simplest skill, and toil unweariable, No moment and no movement unimproved, Lay line on line, on terrace terrace spread. . . . Atom by atom, thus the burthen grows, Even like... | |
| Arthur Mangin - 1868 - 480 Seiten
...accomplished their work, man appears, and erects his hut on the fertile soil." * " 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... | |
| Patrick Buchan - 1868 - 276 Seiten
...builders :— « Millions of millions thus, from age to age, < With simplest skill and toil unwearable— No moment and no movement unimproved— Laid line...terrace spread, To swell the heightening, brightening mound. By marvellous structure climbing tow'rds the day, Each wrought alone, yet altogether wrought... | |
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