...appears : With nodding arches, broken temples spread ! The very tombs now vanish'd like their dead ! Some felt the silent stroke of mould'ring age ; Some,...Christian zeal conspire, And papal piety, and Gothic fire. Perhaps by its own ruins sav'd from flame, Some buried marble half preserves a name ; That name, the...

...survey ; Statues of men, scarce less alive than they ! 10 Some felt the silent stroke of mouldering to the central e:irth, his prope Perhaps by its own ruins saved from flame, Some buried marble half preserves a name ; That name the...

...appears : With nodding arches, broken temples spread I The very tombs now vanish'd like their dead ! Some felt the silent stroke of mould'ring age ; Some, hostile fury ; some, religious rage : Barbarian b!indness, Christian zeal conspire, And papal piety, and Gothic fire. Perhaps by its own ruins sav'd...

...survey : Statues of men, scarce less alive than they ! 10 Some felt the silent stroke of mouldering age, Some hostile fury, some religious rage : Barbarian...zeal conspire, And- papal piety, and gothic fire. Perhaps, by its own ruins saved from flame, 15 Some buried marble half preserves a name : That name...

...appears : With nodding arches, broken temples spread ! The very tombs now vanish'd like their dead ! Some felt the silent stroke of mould'ring age ; Some,...Christian zeal conspire, And papal piety and Gothic fire. Perhaps by it« own ruins saved from flame, Some buried marble half preserves a name ; That name, the...

...should have thus sunk into utter annihilation? May we not adopt the language of poetry? < % ^ Some fek the silent stroke of mould'ring age. Some hostile...conspire, And Papal piety, and Gothic fire. Pope's Epistle to Addison. These verses contain a very comprehensive scale of destruction; five causes sufficient...

...not adopt the language of poetry? Some felt the silent stroke of mouhl'ring age. Some hostile furj, some religious rage. Barbarian blindness, Christian zeal conspire, And Papal piety, and Gothic fire. Pope'* Epistle to Addison. These verses contain a very comprehensive scale of destruction; five causes...

...; so true are the lines of the most correct of poets : " Some felt the silent stroke of mouldering age, " Some hostile fury, some religious rage : "...And Papal piety, and Gothic fire." POPE'S EPISTLE TU ADDISON. XX. Spirits of forty Ages ! answer me : " Soldiers !" exclaimed the modern Conqueror of...

...alive than they ! Some felt the silent stroke of mouldering age, Some hostile fury, some religions ssion show, The Naiads wept in every watery bower, And Jove consented in a silent sho Perhaps, by its own ruins saved from flame, Some buried marble half preserves a name ; That name the...

...pride survey ; Statues of men, scarce less alive than they ! Some felt the silent stroke of mouldering 4 Perhaps, by its own ruins sav'd from flame. Some buried marble half preserves a name ; That name the...