 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 trang
...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 long ago; •The Scipio's tomb contains no ashes now ; The very sepulchres lie tenantless... | |
 | John Miley - 1843 - 382 trang
...giants ; where myriads of the slain have been left to rot and bleach under the torrid sun. CHAPTER II. " The Niobe of nations ! there she stands Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe." Childe Harold, cant. iv. " Quid salvum est si Roma perit ?" S. Hieron. Ep. xi. ad Ageruchiam. WHEN... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1844 - 544 trang
...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 dust was scattered long ago ; The Scipios1 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 - 1844 - 564 trang
...beneath her, and around her, all is a sepulchre,^ where the conqueror is entombed with 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 dust was scattered long ago ; The Scipios'... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1845 - 830 trang
...and temples, Ye! Whose agonies are evils of a day— A world is at our feet, as fragile ae our clay. The Niobe of nations! there she stands Childless and...tomb contains no ashes now ; The very sepulchres lie tenantlces Of'their heroic dwellers." '. We have thus traced the history of two grand experiments in... | |
 | 1845 - 818 trang
...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 and...tomb contains no ashes now ; The very sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers." We have thus traced the history of two grand experiments in government.... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 494 trang
...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...tomb contains no ashes now ; The very sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers : dost thou flow, Old Tiber! through a marble wilderness? Rise,... | |
 | 1845 - 816 trang
...temples, Ye ! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet, as fragile ae our clay. The Niobe of nations! there she stands Childless and...tomb contains no ashes now ; The very sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers." We have thus traced the history of two grand experiments in government.... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1845 - 492 trang
...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...urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scatter'd long ago ; The Scipio's tomb contains no ashes now; The very sepulchres lie tenantlcss Of... | |
 | Joel Tyler Headley - 1845 - 240 trang
...paused, and turning toward the city, now dim in the smoky distance, bade it a long, last farewell. • " There she stands, Childless and crownless, in her...withered hands Whose holy dust was scattered long ago." Stopping to breakfast, about 12 o'clock, at a small inn, I wandered off in the fields. On returning,... | |
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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... 
