They stand between the mountains and the sea ; Awful memorials, but of whom we know not ! The seaman, passing, gazes from the deck. The buffalo-driver, in his shaggy cloak, Points to the work of magic and moves on. Poems - Pagina 199di Samuel Rogers - 1822 - 319 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
| 1819 - 654 pagine
...all that need be told, and to express all that can be feit of a scene so strange and so mournful. ' They stand between the mountains and the sea ; Awful...tongues beset The brazen gates for prayer and sacrifice ! How many centuries did the sun go round From Mount Alburnus to the Tyrrhene sea, While, by some spell... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1819 - 112 pagine
...spare himself the recollection.' 77 LINES WRITTEN AT P^ESTUM, MARCH 4, 1815. LINES WRITTEN AT P^ESTUM. THEY stand between the mountains and the sea ; Awful...the deck. The buffalo-driver, in his shaggy cloak, * The temples of Psestum are three in number ; and have survived, nearly nine centuries, the total... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1819 - 110 pagine
...ultimate scheme of metre. — JOHNSON. LINES WRITTEN AT P^STUM MARCH 4, 1815. LINES WRITTEN AT P^STUM. THEY stand between the mountains and the sea ; Awful...! * The seaman, passing, gazes from the deck. The buffalo- driver, in his shaggy cloak, f * The temples of Paestum are three in number; and have survived,... | |
| James Elmes - 1825 - 322 pagine
...poet Rogers, in some beautiful lines written at Peestum, in March, 1815, says of these temples : " They stand between the mountains and the sea Awful memorials, but of whom we know not. Time was they stood along the crowded street, Temples of gods ! and on their ample steps, What various... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1829 - 520 pagine
...age, Though now he little thinks how large his debt, Serve for their monument ! (170) XIX. P.ESTUM. They stand between the mountains and the sea; Awful...memorials, but of whom we know not !' The seaman, passing, Razes from the deck. The buffalo-driver, in his shaggy cloak, Points lo tht: work of magic and moves... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 516 pagine
...not!1 The seaman, pausing, gazes from the deck. The bufialo-drivcr, in his shaggy cloak, Point* to Lhe work of magic and moves on. Time was they stood along the crowded street, Temple« of Gods ! and on their ample steps What various habits, various tongues beset The brazen gates... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 514 pagine
...nge, Though now he little thinks how large his debt, Serve for their monumenl! (170) 74 75 XIX. . THET stand between the mountains and the sea Awful memorials, but of whom we know not!1 The seaman, passing, gazes from the deck. The buffalo-driver, in his shaggy cloak, Points to... | |
| Alexander Whitelaw - 1835 - 470 pagine
...indeed From superstition be released, and from oppression freed. J. HOLLAND. THE RUINS OF P^STUM.* THEY stand between the mountains and the sea • Awful...tongues beset The brazen gates for prayer and sacrifice ! — How many centuries did the sun go round From Mount Alburnus to the Tyrrhene sea, While, by some... | |
| 1836 - 514 pagine
...passing, gazes from the deck. The buf&lo-driver, in his shaggy cloak, Points to the work of magic arid moves on. Time was they stood along the crowded street. Temples of Gods ! and on their ample step« What various habits, various tongues beset The brazen gates for prayer and sacrifice ! Time... | |
| John Aikin, John Frost - 1838 - 752 pagine
...memorials, but of whom we know not !* The seaman, passing, gazes from the deck. The buffalo driver, *! ZQe + uPb B 0 m( 1< ` n = 9 6x Id ݜ) 6 95 /Dd 9+ \\ 'lut various habits, various tongues beset The brazen gates for prayer and sacrifice ! Time was... | |
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