 AND thou hast walked about (how strange a story!) In Thebes's streets three thousand years ago, When the Memnonium was in all its glory, And time had not begun to overthrow Those temples, palaces, and piles stupendous Of which the very ruins are tremendous.  Spirit of the English Magazines - Page 811821Full view - About this book
 | Conrad Hume Pinches - 1854 - 460 pages
...SMITH'S " Gaieties and Gravities." AND thou hast walked about (how strange a story!) In Thebes' street three thousand years ago ; When the Memnonium was...ruins are tremendous. Speak ! for thou long enough hast acted dummy, — Thou hast a tongue, come, let us hear its tune ; Thou 'rt standing on thy legs,... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1854 - 740 pages
...walked about — how strange a story ! In Thcbcs's streets three thousand yeaft ago, When the Mcmnonium was in all its glory, And time had not begun to overthrow...ruins are tremendous. Speak ! for thou long enough hast acted dummy, Thou hast a tongue — come — let us hear ita tune ; Thou'rt standing on thy legs,... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 332 pages
...walked about (how strange a story!) In Thebes' street three thousand years ago? When the Memnoniumt was in all its glory, And time had not begun to overthrow...temples, palaces, and piles stupendous, Of which the very rums are tremendous ! Speak ! for thou long enough hast acted dummy ; Thou hast a tongue ; come, let... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1854 - 352 pages
...thy life." LESSON LXXII. The Mummy.*—SMITH. 1. AND thou hast walk'd about (how strange a story!) And time had not begun to overthrow Those temples,...stupendous, Of which the very ruins are tremendous. In Thebes'f streets three thousand years ago, When the MemnoniumJ was in all its glory, 2. Speak !... | |
 | William Laxton - 1854 - 608 pages
...the poet — " How etrange the story Of Thehea' streets three thousand years ago; When the Mcmuonitun was in all "its glory, And Time had not begun to overthrow Those ancient piles, and monuments stupendous, Of which the very mills art? tremendous !" The Greek Court.... | |
 | Old Humphrey - 1855 - 304 pages
...the embalmed mummy half unswathed. " And thou hast walk'd about, how strange a story ! In Thebes's streets, three thousand years ago, When the Memnonium...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... | |
 | Charlotte Phillips - 1855 - 188 pages
...mercy. ADDRESS TO AN EGYPTIAN MUMMY. AND thou hast walk'd about, how strange a story ! In Thebe's street three thousand years ago ; When the Memnonium was...stupendous, Of which the very ruins are tremendous. Thou'rt standing on thy legs above ground, Mummy ! Revisiting the glimpses of the moon, Not like thin... | |
 | 1857 - 894 pages
...in which the whole was studied. " And thou hast walked about — how strange a story ! In Thebes's streets, three thousand years ago ; When the Memnonium...stupendous, Of which the very ruins are tremendous." The class are asked if they know anything of the author of these lines, and of the traveller Belzoni... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...walked about (how strange a story !) In Thebes's streets three thousand years ago, When the Memnoninm was in all its glory, And time had not begun to overthrow...ruins are tremendous! Speak ! for thou long enough hast acted dumby , Thou hast a tongue ; come, let us hear its tune ; Thou'rt standing on thy legs above... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 pages
...Wordsworth. ADDRESS TO AN EGYPTIAN MUMMY.3 AND thon hast walked about — how strange a story !In Thebes's streets three thousand years ago ; When the Memnonium*...temples, palaces, and piles stupendous, Of which the verv ruins are tremendous. ( 1 ) Beget, &c. — recall, and as it were create anew, the scenes of hoyhood.... | |
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