In the full prospect yonder hill commands, O'er barren heaths, and cultivated plains ; The vestige of an ancient abbey stands, Close by a ruin'd castle's rude remains. Half buried, there, lie many a broken bust, And obelisk, and urn, o'erthrown by Time;... Gleanings and Reminiscences - Página 471por Frank Thorpe Porter - 1875 - 500 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Francis Grose - 1784 - 350 páginas
...a garden, than that of an ancient decayed abbey. How unike the beautiful description of the poet ! Half buried there lie many a broken bust, And obelisk, and urn o'erthrown by time ; And many a cherub here descends in dust From the rent roof and portico sublime. Where rev'rend shrines in Gothic grandeur... | |
| Tintern Monm, abbey - 1798 - 78 páginas
...garden, than that of an ancient decayed abbey. - How unlike the beautiful description of the poet : Half buried there lie many a broken bust, And obelisk...and urn o'erthrown by time ; • And many a Cherub here descends in dust From the rent roof and portico sublime. •:. '.. .: . .Where rev'rend shrines... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 622 páginas
...murorum moles, praruptaque saxa ! Janus Vital!». Omnia/tempus edax depascitur, omnia earpit, Seneca. IN the full prospect yonder hill commands, O'er barren...there, lie many a broken bust, And obelisk, and urn, o'crthrown by Time; And many a cherub, there, descends in dust From the rent roof, and portico sublime.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 628 páginas
...murorum moles, praeruptaque saxa ! Janus Vitalis. Omnia, tempus edax depascitur, omnia carpit. Seneca. IN the full prospect yonder hill commands, O'er barren...buried, there, lie many a broken bust, And obelisk, and nrn, o'erthrown by Time ; And many a cherub, there, descends in dust From the rent roof, and portico... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 622 páginas
...IN the full prospect yonder hill commands. O'er barren heaths, and cultivated plaids ; The vcstiee images oCtiiiiiirs, By chance combin'd, have struck...,-oul Trtb deeper impulse, or, connected long, Hav obel'sk, and urn, o'erthrown by Time; And many a cherub, there, descends in dust From the rent roof,... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 290 páginas
...11n1rnn1i11 moles, pra?rnptaqae saxn ! JANCS VITALIS. Omnia, tempos edax depascitnr, omnia carpit. SENECA. IN the full prospect yonder hill commands, O'er barren...descends in dust From the rent roof, and portico sublime. The rivulets, oft frighted at the sound Of fragments tumbling from the towers on high, Plunge to their... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 560 páginas
...murorura moles, przruptaqne uxa ! JA US VITAUS; •mnta, tempns edax depaseitur, omma carpit SENECA. IN the full prospect yonder hill commands, O'er barren...The vestige of an ancient abbey stands, Close by a rviin'd castle's rude remains. Half buried, there lie many a broken bust, And obelisk, and urn, o'erthrown... | |
| 1826 - 310 páginas
...his child unjust, The tears may trickle from a father's eye. Jerningham. ELEGY ON A PILE OF RUINS. IN the full prospect yonder hill commands, O'er barren...descends in dust From the rent roof, and portico sublime. The rivulets, oft frighted at the sound t>f fragments tumbling from the tow'rs on high, Flung'd to... | |
| Jacob Green - 1831 - 296 páginas
...realized among several of the ruins at York, and at other places, is altogether inapplicable here — Half buried there, lie many a broken bust, And obelisk, and urn o'ertbrown by time, And many a cherub, there descends in dust, From the rent roof and portico sublime.... | |
| William Beattie, William Henry Bartlett - 1844 - 436 páginas
...abbcg." " How unlike," he adds, " the beautiful description of the poet ! — ' Half-buried there lies many a broken bust, And obelisk and urn, o'erthrown by time, And many a cherub here descends in dust, From the rent roof and portico sublime; Where reverend shrines in Gothic grandeur... | |
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