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" Whose lonely columns stand sublime, Flinging their shadows from on high, Like dials, which the wizard, Time, Had raised to count his ages by... "
The American Biblical Repository - Page 68
1841
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The New Hampshire Book: Being Specimens of the Literature of the Granite ...

Samuel Osgood - 1842 - 426 pages
...up the beautiful conceits and striking expressions of an author ; but he must strive to reproduce yi himself the inspiration of the bard and the enthusiasm...as the very key that unlocks the temple of science. The taste is refined and matured by this same discipline. By constant association with refined society...
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Rambles in Yucatan: Or, Notes of Travel Through the Peninsula, Including a ...

Benjamin Moore Norman - 1843 - 418 pages
...Pharaoh. . Before the eye of the imagination — COMPARISON. 177 " Their lonely columns sta»d sublime, Flinging their shadows from on high, Like dials, which the wizard Time Had raised to count his ages by." The reader is already sufficiently familiar with the general structure...
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An Essay on Elocution: With Elucidatory Passages from Various Authors

John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 pages
...she sees the sun look down On that great temple, once his own, Whose lonely columns stand sublime, Flinging their shadows from on high, Like dials, which the wizard, Time, Had raised to count his ages by ! Yet haply there may lie conceal'd Beneath those Chambers of the Sun;...
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Life in the New World, Or, Sketches of American Society

Charles Sealsfield - 1844 - 376 pages
...astonishment,' a dim spectre among the well known kingdoms of antiquity. " Her lonely columns stand sublime, Flinging their shadows from on high, Like dials which the wizard Time Has raised to count his ages by." It is the most instructive work of the kind ever issued — full...
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A Memoir of Mrs. Judith S. Grant: Late Missionary to Persia

William W. Campbell - 1844 - 212 pages
...astonishment,' a dim spectre among the we known kingdoms of antiquity "Her lonely columns stand sublime, Flinging their shadows from on high, Like dials which the wizard Time Has raised to count his ages by." It is the most instructive work of the kind ever issued — full...
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The History of Illinois, from Its First Discovery and Settlement to the ...

Henry Brown - 1844 - 526 pages
...astonishment,' a dimtpectr* among the well known kingdoms of antiquity. " Her lonely columns stand sublime, Flinging their shadows from on high, Like dials which the wizard Time Hu raised to count his ages by.** It is the most instructive work of the kind ever issued — full...
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The Guide to Knowledge, Or Repertory of Facts: Forming a Complete Library of ...

Robert Sears - 1844 - 514 pages
...she worshipped, hails our notice, and well does she deserve it. rt Her ruined columns stand sublime, Flinging their shadows from on high ; Like dials which the wizard Time, Had raised to count his age gone by." A traveller has described it as " a grand ruin," and it is most...
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Guide to the Town and Neighbourhood of Abergavenny

John White (of Abergavenny.) - 1845 - 108 pages
...that it has been so long standing in a neglected state. The old columns tower lonely and melancholy, flinging their shadows " From on high, Like dials...wizard, Time, Hath raised to count his ages by." The ivy hangs in graceful festoons over their tops, rejoicing over the past, and seeming to say that Time's...
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The Crescent and the Cross: Or, Romance and Realities of Eastern ..., Parts 1-2

Eliot Warburton - 1845 - 572 pages
...XVI. He raw the Sun go down On that great Temple, once his own, Whose lofty columns stand sublime, Flinging their shadows from on high, Like dials which the wizard Time Had raised to count his ages by. Moo HE. 1 WAS obliged to wait at Damascus until the English monthly...
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The Christian guardian (and Church of England magazine).

1845 - 582 pages
...over her glories, and shorn this prince of its towering diadems. " Her lonely columns stand sublime, Flinging their shadows from on high Like dials, which the wizard Time Has raised, to count his ages by." Throughout the range of the western wilds, down in Mexico, Yucatan,...
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