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" 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. "
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The Lyre: Fugitive Poetry of the Nineteenth Century

Lyre - 1841 - 366 pages
...about — how strange a story ! — In Thebes's streets three thousand years ago 1 When the Memnonium was in all its glory, And Time had not begun to overthrow...above ground, Mummy ! Revisiting the glimpses of the Moon ; Not like thin ghosts or disembodied creatures, But with thy bones, and flesh, and limbs, and...
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Cours de versions anglaises ou Recueil choisi d'anecdotes, traits ...

P. Sadler - 1841 - 362 pages
...about (2)— how strange a story !In Thebes' streets three thousand years ago , When the Memnonium was in all its glory, And time had not begun to overthrow (3) Those temples, palaces, and piles (4) stupendous (H). Of which the very ruins are tremendous. Why...
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Rambles in Yucatan: Or, Notes of Travel Through the Peninsula, Including a ...

Benjamin Moore Norman - 1843 - 418 pages
...of the present generation of civilized men walking the streets of this once mighty city, and amid " Those temples, palaces, and piles stupendous, Of which the very ruins are tremendous." For a long time I was so distracted with the multitude of objects which crowded upon my mind, that...
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Readings in poetry: a selection from the best English poets, from Spenser to ...

Readings - 1843 - 466 pages
...overthrow AND thou hast walked about, (how strange a story!) In Thebes's street three thousand years ago; Those temples, palaces, and piles stupendous, Of which the very ruins are tremendous. Tell us, for doubtless thou canst recollect, Was Cheops or Cephrenes architect Of either pyramid that...
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The District School Reader, Or, Exercises in Reading and Speaking: Designed ...

William Draper Swan - 1845 - 494 pages
...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...above ground, mummy ! " Revisiting the glimpses of the moon ; " Not like thin ghosts, or disembodied creatures, But with thy bones, and flesh, and limbs,...
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The rhetorical reader, consisting of choice specimens of oratorical ...

John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...walk'd about (how strange a story !) In Thebes' streets three thousand years ago, When the Memnonium was in all its glory, And time had not begun to overthrow...above ground, Mummy ! Revisiting the glimpses of the moon, Not like thin ghosts or disembodied creatures, But with thy bones and flesh, and limbs and features....
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National Preceptor

Jesse Olney - 1845 - 348 pages
...overthrow Those temples, palaces, and piles stupendous, Of which the very ruins are tremendous. 2. Speak! for thou long enough hast acted Dummy, Thou...above ground, Mummy ! Revisiting the glimpses of the moon, Not like thin ghosts or disembodied creatures, But with thy bones and flesh, and limbs and features....
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The Poets and Poetry of England, in the Nineteenth Century

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pages
...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...the very ruins are tremendous ! Speak ! — for thou lojig enough hast acted dummy, Thou hast a tongue,— come — let us hear its tune! Thou'rt standing...
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Old Humphrey's Walks in London and Its Neighbourhood

Old Humphrey - 1845 - 298 pages
...walk'd about, how strange a story ! In Thebes's streets, three thousand years ago, When the Memnoniutn was in all its glory, And time had not begun to overthrow...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...
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Studies in English poetry [an anthology] with biogr. sketches and notes by J ...

Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...; — how strange a story ! — In Thebes's streets three thousand years ago ; When the Memnonium4 was in all its glory, And time had not begun to overthrow...stupendous, Of which the very ruins are tremendous. 1 Beget, 4r. — recall, and as it were create anew, the scenes of boyhood. This faculty, which the...
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