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" ... to some misshapen idol over the ruined dome of our proudest temple, and shall see a single naked fisherman wash his nets in the river of the ten thousand masts... "
Knight's Quarterly Magazine - Page 304
1824
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 3

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 424 pages
...mouldering pedestal the name of our proudest chief; shall hear savage hymns chaunted to some misshapen idol over the ruined dome of our proudest temple:...glory will still survive, — fresh in eternal youth, except from mutability and decay, immortal as the intellectual principle from which they derived their...
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District School Journal, of the State of New-York, Volumes 4-6

Education - 1843 - 798 pages
...fixeJ their abode in distant continents ; when the sceptre shall have passed away from England ; — her influence and her glory will still survive ; —...fresh in eternal youth, exempt from mutability and deeay; immortal as the intellectual principle from which they derived their origie, and orer which...
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The Book of Eloquence: A Collection of Extracts in Prose and Verse, from the ...

Readers - 1853 - 458 pages
...mouldering pedestal the name of our proudest chief; shall hear savage hymns chanted to some misshapen idol over the ruined dome of our proudest temple : and shall see a single naked fisherman wasli his nets in the river of the ten thousand masts, — her influence and her glory would still...
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Progressive Fifth Elocutionary Reader

Salem Town - 1857 - 524 pages
...moldcring pedustal the name of our proudest chief; shall hear savage hymns chanted to sonic misshapen idol over the ruined dome of our proudest temple ;...shall see a single, naked fisherman wash his nets '.•n the river of the ten thousand masts, — her influence and her glory will still survive, fresh...
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Hygiene: Or, Health as Depending Upon the Conditions of the Atmosphere ...

James H. Pickford - Hygiene - 1858 - 336 pages
...par CF Volney, chap. ii. p. 10, Horace AValpole to Sir H. Mann. Peter Bell the Third, by PB Shelley. idol over the ruined dome of our proudest temple ; and shall see a single naked fishermen wash his nets in the river of the ten thousand masts." 1036. "Of the drainage area of London,"...
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Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 1-2

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1897 - 1102 pages
...mouldering pedestal the name of our proudest chief; shall hear savage hymns chaunted to some misshapen idol, over the ruined dome of our proudest temple;...principle from which they derived their origin, and ever which jhey exercise their control. (EdMurgh Rttiea, August 182S.) TOWARDS the close of the year...
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Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays and Poems, Volumes 1-2

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1860 - 1084 pages
...mouldering pedestal the name of our proudest chief; shall hear savage hymns chaunted to some misshapen idol, over the ruined dome of our proudest temple...still survive, — fresh in eternal youth, exempt from muta* bility and decay, immortal as the intellectual principle from which they derived their origin,...
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The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, Volume 56

1860 - 998 pages
...pedestal the name of our proudest chief— shall hear savage hymns chanted to some misshapen idol on the ruined dome of our proudest temple — and shall...his nets in the river of the ten thousand masts." All this magniloquence of ruin would shrink to its natural dimensions, if writers would take the pains...
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The New York Speaker: A Selection of Pieces Designed for Academic Exercises ...

Warren P. Edgarton - Recitations - 1860 - 530 pages
...moldering pedestal the name of our proudest chief; shall hear savage hymns chanted to some mis-shapen idol over the ruined dome of our proudest temple :...naked fisherman wash his nets in the river of the ton thousand masts, — her influence and her glory would still survive, — fresh in eternal youth,...
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The Miscellaneous Writings of Lord Macaulay: Contributions to Knight's ...

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 426 pages
...of our proudest chief; shall hear savage hymns chaunted to some misshapen idol over the ruined N 2 dome of our proudest temple ; and shall see a single...fisherman wash his nets in the river of the ten thousand masts;—her influence and her glory will still survive,— fresh in eternal youth, exempt from mutability...
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