 | John Murray (Firm) - 1843 - 616 pages
...and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples ! ye, Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. The...crownless, in her voiceless woe; An empty urn within her wither'd hands, Whose holy dust was scatter''! long ago ; 246 The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now;... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 432 pages
...must turn to thee, Lone mother of dead empires ! and control In their shut breasts their petty misery. The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless...hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago ; The Scipio's tomb contains no ashes now ; The very sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers :... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1843 - 570 pages
...eleven centuries, submitted too, to the barbarian. •Niebuhr's History of Rome, vol. II. p. 35. " The Niobe of nations ; there she stands, Childless...hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago ; The Scipio's tomb contains no ashes now ; The very sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers ;... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 424 pages
...mother of dead empires I and control In their shut breasts their petty misery. The Niobe of nations I there she stands, Childless and crownless in her voiceless...hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago ; The Scipio's tomb contains no ashes now ; The very sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers :... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 pages
...and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, Ye ! Whose agonies are evils of a day — world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. The Niobe of nations! there she stands, Childless and erownless, in her voiceless woe; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scatter'd... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - 548 pages
...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...sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers : dost thou flow, Old Tiber ! through a marble wildernesss ? Rise, with thy yellow waves, and mantle her distress.... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1844 - 564 pages
...the conquered. The Niobe of nations! there she stands, Childless and crownless in her voiceless wo ; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy...sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers : dost thou flow Old Tiber ! through a marble wilderness ? Rise with thy yellow waves and mantle her distress... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 494 pages
...and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, Ye ! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. The...sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers : dost thou flow, Old Tiber! through a marble wilderness? Rise, with thy yellow waves, and mantle her distress.... | |
 | 1845 - 818 pages
...and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, Ye ! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet, as fragile as our clay. The...sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers." We have thus traced the history of two grand experiments in government. The first system was beautiful,... | |
 | 1845 - 824 pages
...and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, Ye ! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet, as fragile as our clay. The...sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers." We have thus traced the history of two grand experiments in government. The first system was beautiful,... | |
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The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago ; The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now ; The very sepulchres lie tenantless Of their... 
