| Moses Severance - Readers - 1841 - 316 pages
...London, 1. AND thou hast walk'd about (how strange a story !. In Thebes' streets three thousand yeais ago, When the Memnonium was in all its glory, And...stupendous, Of which the very ruins are tremendous. 2. Speak ! for thou long enough hast acted Dummy. Thou hast a tongue — come, let us hear its tune;... | |
| P. Sadler - 1841 - 362 pages
...death ! ADDRESS TO AN EGYPTIAN MUMMY, And thou hastwalk'd about (2)— how strange a story !In Thebes' streets three thousand years ago , When the Memnonium...all its glory, And time had not begun to overthrow (3) Those temples, palaces, and piles (4) stupendous (H). Of which the very ruins are tremendous. Why... | |
| Benjamin Moore Norman - English language - 1843 - 418 pages
...of the present generation of civilized men walking the streets of this once mighty city, and amid " Those temples, palaces, and piles stupendous, Of which the very ruins are tremendous." For a long time I was so distracted with the multitude of objects which crowded upon my mind, that... | |
| Readings - English poetry - 1843 - 466 pages
...overthrow AND thou hast walked about, (how strange a story!) In Thebes's street three thousand years ago; Those temples, palaces, and piles stupendous, Of which the very ruins are tremendous. Tell us, for doubtless thou canst recollect, Was Cheops or Cephrenes architect Of either pyramid that... | |
| John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...IN BELZONJ'S EXHIBITION. HORACE SMITH. AND thou hast walk'd about (how strange a story !) In Thebes' streets three thousand years ago, When the Memnonium...dummy, Thou hast a tongue — come let us hear its tune ; Thou'rt standing on thy legs, above ground, Mummy ! Revisiting the glimpses of the moon, Not like... | |
| William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 494 pages
...LESSON CL. The Mummy. HORACE SMITH. AND thou hast walked about, — how strange a story ! In Thebes's streets, three thousand years ago ; When the Memnonium...Thou hast a tongue — come, let us hear its tune ; Thou'rt standing on thy legs, above ground, mummy ! " Revisiting the glimpses of the moon ; " Not... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...above ! ADDRESS TO AN EGYPTIAN MUMMY. thou hast walk'd about — how strange a story ! — In Thebes's streets, three thousand years ago ! When the Memnonium...the very ruins are tremendous ! Speak ! — for thou lojig enough hast acted dummy, Thou hast a tongue,— come — let us hear its tune! Thou'rt standing... | |
| Old Humphrey - London (England) - 1845 - 298 pages
...walk'd about, how strange a story ! In Thebes's streets, three thousand years ago, When the Memnoniutn was in all its glory, And time had not begun to overthrow...stupendous, Of which the very ruins are tremendous." It may not be so with all, but it is with many, that the very sight of these remnants of former ages... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...; — how strange a story ! — In Thebes's streets three thousand years ago ; When the Memnonium4 was in all its glory, And time had not begun to overthrow...stupendous, Of which the very ruins are tremendous. 1 Beget, 4r. — recall, and as it were create anew, the scenes of boyhood. This faculty, which the... | |
| William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 482 pages
...LESSON CL. The Mummy. HORACE SMITH. AND thou hast walked about, — how strange a story! In Thebes's streets, three thousand years ago; When the Memnonium...all its glory, And Time had not begun to overthrow 36 * Those temples, palaces, and piles stupendous, Of which the very ruins are tremendous. Speak !... | |
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