 Revisiting the glimpses of the moon. Not like thin ghosts or disembodied creatures, But with thy bones and flesh, and limbs and features. Tell us — for doubtless thou canst recollect — To whom should we assign the Sphinx's...  The Edinburgh Annual Register - Page 427edited by - 1824Full view - About this book
 | Star reciter - 1873 - 330 pages
...features. Tell us — for doubtless thou canst recollect — To whom we should assign the Sphinx's fame I Was Cheops or Cephrenes architect Of either pyramid...misnomer ? Had Thebes a hundred gates, as sung by Homer 1 Perhaps thou wert a mason, and forbidden By oath to tell the secrets of thy trade ; Then say, what... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 782 pages
...doubtless thon canst recollect — To whom should wo assign the Sphinx's fame? Was Cheops or Cophrenes torch o '4. thon wert a mason, and forbidden By oath to tell tho secrets of thy trade — Then say, what secret... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 906 pages
...features. Tell us — for doubtless thou canst recollect — To whom should we assign the Sphinx's , I think that I can drink With any that wears a hood....bare, take ye no care ; I am nothing a-cold, — I J Had Thebes a hundred gates, as sung by Homer ? Perhaps thou wert a Mason, and forbidden By oath to... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 912 pages
...aiid features. Tell us— for doubtless thou canst recollect, To «horn ehould we assign the Sphinx's n terrors clad, Not circled with the vengeful band (As by the impious thou art la Pompey's Pillar really a misnomer? Had Thebew a hundred gates, ae sung by Homer? Perhaps thou wert... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 560 pages
...features 1 Tell us, — for doubtless thou canst recollect, — To whom should we assign the Sphinx's fame? Was Cheops or Cephrenes architect Of either pyramid that bears his name t I» Pompey's Pillar really a misnomer ? Had Thebes a hundred gates, as sung by Homer I Perhaps thou... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 576 pages
...features. Tell us — • for doubtless thou canst recollect — To whom should we assign the Sphinx's fame ? Was Cheops or Cephrenes architect Of either...thou wert a Mason, and forbidden By oath to tell the secrets of thy trade, — Then say what secret melody was hidden In Memnon's statue, which at sunrise... | |
 | 1876 - 508 pages
...features. Tell us — for doubtless thou canst recollect — To whom should we assign the Sphinx's fame ? Was Cheops or Cephrenes architect Of either...thou wert a Mason, and forbidden By oath to tell the secrets of thy trade — Then say what secret melody was hidden In Memnon's statue, which at sunrise... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pages
...features. Tell us — for doubtless thou canst recollect — To whom should we assign the Sphinx's t waves, When murmuring homeward to their caves, Or...silence, like thy Throne ! And the pale stars shal secrets of thy trade — Then say, what secret melody was hidden In Memnon's statue, which at sunrise... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 828 pages
...should we assign the Sphinx's fame? Was Cheops or Cephrenes architect Of either pyramid that bears hia ls, A small and sileot dell! O'er stiller place No...heathy, save that swelling slope, Which hath a gay secrets of thy trade — Then say what secret melody was hidden In Memnon's statue, which at sunrise... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - 562 pages
...features I Tell us, — for doubtless thou canst recollect, — To whom should we assign the Sphinx's fame? Was Cheops or Cephrenes architect Of either...bears his name ? Is Pompey's Pillar really a misnomer? Perhaps thou wert a Mason, and forbidden, By oath, to tell the mysteries of thy trade; Then say, what... | |
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