 | Martin John Spalding - 1847 - Počet stránok 414
...God's chosen work. While, of the former, existing in her melancholy ruins, we may sav with the poet: "The Niobe of nations, there she stands Childless and crownless in her voiceless woe;" we must say of the latter, that, instead of being childless and crownless, she reckons now, after centuries... | |
 | William Russell - 1849 - Počet stránok 320
...shout aloud for joy ! " Fear : — " With noiseless foot she treads the marble floor." Grief: — " The Niobe of nations ! there she stands Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe .' " " Oh ! pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!"... | |
 | Thomas Roscoe - 1849 - Počet stránok 560
...Méditerranée. La Villa a quelquefois servi de ferme : elle appartient au roi de Naples. ITALY. " The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe." BYRON. THE bridge called the Ponte Sisto was constructed during the pontificate of Sixtus IV., from... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1850 - Počet stránok 318
...and temples, Ye ! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. The Niobe of nations! there she stands, Childless...crownless, in her voiceless woe; An empty urn within her withereil hands, Whose holy dust was scatter'd long ago ; The Scipio's tomb contains no ashes now;... | |
 | 1850 - Počet stránok 418
...Yet Wliuse agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. "The Niobo of nations! there she stands. Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her wither'd hands "Whose holy dust was scatter:d long apo; The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now; The... | |
 | 1850 - Počet stránok 424
...Muses hushed their song forever. And " Now she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless wo; An empty urn, within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago." Thus to the stranger amid her ruins, do the golden days of Athens' pass in review. Beautiful as the... | |
 | John Murray (Firm), Octavian Blewitt - 1850 - Počet stránok 750
...a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. The Niobe of nations ! there she stands,"1 Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her withcr'd hands, Whose holy dust was scatter'd long ago ; The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now ;... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1851 - Počet stránok 352
...temples, Ye ! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. LXXIX. The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless...crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her wither'd hands, Whose holy dust was scatter'd long ago ; The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now ;... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - Počet stránok 1502
...Galileo, the Columbia of the heavens. 3. The Niobe of nations, there she stands, Childless and crowoless, se, form the staple of the English language. " That is — BYRON. 4. Some village Hamdcn, that with dauntless breast The little tyraat of his fields withstood... | |
 | Ruins - 1852 - Počet stránok 464
...and temples. Ye ! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. "The Niobe of nations ! there she stands. Childless...crownless, in her voiceless woe; An empty urn within her wither'd hands. Whose holy dust was scatter' d long ago ; The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now;... | |
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