 | James Thomson, Samuel Johnson - 1813 - 180 pages
...revolving power Were first th' unwieldy planets launched along Th1 illimitable void ! Thus to remain, Amid the flux of many thousand years. That oft has swept the toiling race of Men, .\nd all their laboured monuments away, Firm, unremitting, matchless, in their course; To the kind-temper'd... | |
 | Samuel Parkes - Chemistry - 1818 - 616 pages
...apparent diminution. Where they were originally fixed by the hand of Nature — " they still remain, Amid the flux of many thousand years, That oft has swept the toiling race of incn, And all their labour'd monuments away." THOMSON. In this arrangement we perceive nothing like... | |
 | John Barrow - Denmark - 1834 - 424 pages
...than the one we had crossed, and there was considerably more snow upon it, but fortunately the road descended towards the valley. The mountain cottages...though they had alone stood — " Amid the flux of many_thousand years, That oft has swept the toiling race of men, And all their labour' d monuments... | |
 | James Thomson - 1836 - 164 pages
...revolving pow'r Were first the unwieldy planeta launch'd along Th' illimitable void ! thus to remain, Amid the flux of many thousand years. That oft has swept the toiling race of men, And .ill their labour'd monuments, away, Firm, unremitting, matchless in their course ; To the kind-temper'd... | |
 | William Cowper - 1851 - 624 pages
...world-revolving ¡lower Were first the unwieldy planets launch'd along The illimitable void! thus to remain, Amid the flux of many thousand years, That oft has swept the toiling raee of men, And all their labour'd monuments away, Firm, unremitting, matchless, in their course ;... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 612 pages
...world-revolving p-iwer Were first the unwieldy planets launeh'd along The illimitable void ! Thus to remain Amid the flux of many thousand years, That oft has swept the toiling raee of men, And all their labour'd monuments away, Firm, unremitting, matehless in their eourse •... | |
 | George Blair - Cemeteries - 1857 - 400 pages
...said with reference to the granite rocks of the globe, in contradistinction to man and his works:— Amid the flux of many thousand years. That oft has swept the toilmg race of men, And all their labored monuments away." " They still remain The pyramids of Egypt... | |
 | James Thomson - 1877 - 112 pages
...world-revolving Power Were first the unwieldy planets launched along The illimitable void ! thus to remain, Amid the flux of many thousand years, That oft has swept the toiling race of men, Aud all their labored monuments away, Firm, unremitting, matchless, in their course ; To the kind-tempered... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Reference - 2004 - 320 pages
...World-revolving Power Were first the unweildy Planets launch'd along Th' illimitable Void! Thus to remain Amid the Flux of many thousand Years, That oft has swept the busy Race of Men, And all their labour'd Monuments away: Unresting, changeless, matchless, in their... | |
 | Horatio Hastings Weld - English poetry - 1869 - 474 pages
...world-revolving power Were first the unwieldy planets launched along The illimitable void ! Thus to remain, Amid the flux of many thousand years, That oft has swept the toiling race of men And al^ their laboured monuments away, Firm, unremitting, matchless, in their course; To the kind tempered... | |
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