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" ... to some misshapen idol over the ruined dome of our proudest temple, and shall see a single naked fisherman wash his nets in the river of the ten thousand masts... "
Passages of a Working Life During Half a Century: With a Prelude of Early ... - Page 333
by Charles Knight - 1864
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 3

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 424 pages
...proudest chief; shall hear savage hymns chaunted to some misshapen idol over the ruined dome of our proudest temple: and shall see a single naked fisherman...glory will still survive, — fresh in eternal youth, except from mutability and decay, immortal as the intellectual principle from which they derived their...
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District School Journal, of the State of New-York, Volumes 4-6

1843 - 798 pages
...fixeJ their abode in distant continents ; when the sceptre shall have passed away from England ; — her influence and her glory will still survive ; —...fresh in eternal youth, exempt from mutability and deeay; immortal as the intellectual principle from which they derived their origie, and orer which...
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The Book of Eloquence: A Collection of Extracts in Prose and Verse, from the ...

1853 - 458 pages
...misshapen idol over the ruined dome of our proudest temple : and shall see a single naked fisherman wasli his nets in the river of the ten thousand masts, — her influence and her glory would still survive, — fresh in eternal youth, exempt from mutability and decay, immortal as the...
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Progressive Fifth Elocutionary Reader

Salem Town - 1857 - 524 pages
...proudest chief; shall hear savage hymns chanted to sonic misshapen idol over the ruined dome of our proudest temple ; and shall see a single, naked fisherman wash his nets '.•n the river of the ten thousand masts, — her influence and her glory will still survive, fresh...
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Proceedings and Debates of the National Quarantine and Sanitary Convention

1859 - 740 pages
...proudest chief; shall hear savage hymns chanted to some misshapen idol over the ruined dome of our proudest temple; and shall see a single naked fisherman...his nets in the river of the ten thousand masts.'" REPORT IMPOBTANCE AND ECONOMY ta BY JOHN BELL, MD, or PHILADELPHIA. CONTENTS. PAOI. Ancient Egyptian...
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Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 1-2

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 1102 pages
...proudest chief; shall hear savage hymns chaunted to some misshapen idol, over the ruined dome of our proudest temple; and shall see a single naked fisherman...principle from which they derived their origin, and ever which jhey exercise their control. (EdMurgh Rttiea, August 182S.) TOWARDS the close of the year...
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Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays and Poems, Volumes 1-2

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1084 pages
...proudest chief; shall hear savage hymns chaunted to some misshapen idol, over the ruined dome of our proudest temple ; and shall see a single naked fisherman...still survive, — fresh in eternal youth, exempt from muta* bility and decay, immortal as the intellectual principle from which they derived their origin,...
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The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, Volume 56

1860 - 996 pages
...proudest chief— shall hear savage hymns chanted to some misshapen idol on the ruined dome of our proudest temple — and shall see a single naked fisherman...his nets in the river of the ten thousand masts." All this magniloquence of ruin would shrink to its natural dimensions, if writers would take the pains...
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The Miscellaneous Writings of Lord Macaulay: In Two Volumes...

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 424 pages
...proudest chief; shall hear savage hymns chaunted to some misshapen idol over the ruined H 2 dome of our proudest temple ; and shall see a single naked fisherman wash his nets in the river of the ten thousand masts;—her influence and her glory will still survive,— fresh in eternal youth, exempt from mutability...
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The New York Speaker: A Selection of Pieces Designed for Academic Exercises ...

Warren P. Edgarton - 1860 - 530 pages
...proudest chief; shall hear savage hymns chanted to some mis-shapen idol over the ruined dome of our proudest temple : and shall see a single naked fisherman wash his nets in the river of the ton thousand masts, — her influence and her glory would still survive, — fresh in eternal youth,...
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