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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. "
The Edinburgh Annual Register - Page 427
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The School Reader. Fifth Book: Designed as a Sequel to Sanders' Fouth Reader ...

Charles Walton Sanders, Joshua Chase Sanders - 1848 - 468 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." elapsed, that my curiosity was sufficiently under control to enable me to examine them with any minuteness....
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The literary class book; or, Readings in English literature

Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...walk'd about (how strange a story !) In Thebcs's streets three thousand years ago, When the Memnonium was in all its glory, And time had not begun to overthrow...Thou'rt standing on thy legs, above ground, Mummy I Revisiting the glimpses of the moon, Not like thin ghosts or disembodied creatures. But with thy...
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The Poetry and Poets of Britain: From Chaucer to Tennyson ; with ...

Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 pages
...walked about (how strange a story !) In Thebes's streets three thousand years ago, When the Memnoninm was in all its glory, And time had not begun to overthrow...stupendous, Of which the very ruins are tremendous I Speak ! for thou long enough hast acted dumby l Thou hast a tongue, come, let us hear its tune ;...
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English Literature of the Nineteenth Century ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 768 pages
...walked 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 and features....
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Select English poetry, with notes by E. Hughes

Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 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...tremendous. Speak ! for thou long enough hast acted diimm'y, Thou hast a tongue — come let us hear its'tune ; TLou'rt standing on thy legs, above ground,...
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The New American Speaker: A Collection of Oratorical and Dramatical Pieces ...

John Celivergos Zachos - 1851 - 570 pages
...walked 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...and piles stupendous, Of which the very ruins are temendous. Speak ! for thou long enough hast acted dummy, Thou hast a tongue, come let us hear its...
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A Brief Account of a Voyage to England and America

Ishuree Dass - 1851 - 106 pages
...how strange a story ! — In Thebes's streets three thousands years ago ! When the Memnonium was in its glory, And time had not begun to overthrow Those...stupendous, Of which the very ruins are tremendous ! " Tell us — for doubtless thou canst recollect, — To whom should we assign the Sphinx's fame...
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English Literature of the Nineteenth Century ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 pages
...walked about (how strange a story !) In Tliebes'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 tlie very ruins are tremendous! Speak! for thou long enough hast acted dummy; Thou hast a tongue, come,...
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Second collection of instructive extracts: no.vi of a new series of school-books

Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 322 pages
...walk'd 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...for thou long enough hast acted Dummy, Thou hast a tongue—come, let us bear its tune; Thou'rt standing on thy legs, above ground, Mummy ! Revisiting...
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Gaieties and Gravities

Horace Smith - 1852 - 324 pages
...walk'd 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 Those temples, palacee, and piles stupendous, Of which the very ruins are tremendous. Speak ! for thou long enough...
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