 | Jeremiah Donovan - 1844 - 1002 pages
...fortress, with its fence of stone, Such as an army's baffled strength delays, Standing with half its battlements alone, And with two thousand years of...eternity, where wave The green leaves over all by time overthrown;— What was this tower of strength? within its cave What treasure lay so locked, so hid?... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pages
...fortress, with its fence of stone, Such as an army's baffled strength delays, Standing with half its battlements alone, And with two thousand years of...tower of strength ? within its cave What treasure by so lock'd, so hid 1 — A woman's grave. But who was she, the lady of the dead, Tomb'd in a palace<!... | |
 | G. A. Perdicaris - 1845 - 336 pages
...baffled strength delays, Standing with half its battlements alone, And with two thousand years of laurel grown, The garland of eternity ; where wave The green leaves over all by time o'erthrown.' The ruins of Messene, unlike the remains of Tyrinth and Mycenae, are, comparatively speaking, of modern... | |
 | Hugh Swinton Legaré - 1845 - 606 pages
...Another instance of the same kind of extravagance. He is speaking of a tower — "Standing with half its battlements alone, And with two thousand years of ivy grown, The garland of eternity, &c. Canto IV. 99. Again — "Admire, exult — despise — laugh, weep, — for here There is such... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 1068 pages
...fortress, with its fence of stone, Such as an army's baffled strength delays, Standing with half its battlements alone, And with two thousand years of...within its cave What treasure lay so lock'd, so hid?— A woman's grave. i ' <r. ABudine 10 ibe lamb of Cecilia Melena, called Capo dl Bove. 4ч gulnrieal... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 848 pages
...fortress, with its fence of stone, Such as ал nrmy's baffled strength delays, Standing with half its s combat to make One submit ; Or league to teach all...the lion down, shnll we Pay the wolf homage ? proff ? — A woman's grave. C. But who was she, the lady of the dead, Tumb'd in a palace? Was she chaste... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pages
...fortress, with its fence of stone, Such as an army's baffled strength delays, Standing with half its battlements alone, And with two thousand years of...time o'erthrown ; — What was this tower of strength 1 within its cave What treasure lay so lock'd, so hid ? — A woman's grave. Dut who was she, the lady... | |
 | William Ingraham Kip - 1846 - 478 pages
...the Middle Ages, covered with rank vegetation, the wild vines trailing around them, or sometimes " with two thousand years of ivy grown The garland of...wave The green leaves over all by time o'erthrown." We first stopped at one of those to which Cicero refers — the tomb of the Scipios. It is in a vineyard... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 pages
...army's baffled strength delays, Standing with half its battlements alone, And with two thousand yean , 4 , ? — A woman's grave. a But who was she, the lady of the dead, Tomb'd in a palace ? Was she chaste... | |
 | 1847 - 672 pages
...of the middle ages, covered with rank vegetation, the wild vines trailing around them, or sometimes "with two thousand years of ivy grown, The garland...wave The green leaves over all by time o'erthrown." We first stopped at one of those to which Cicero refers, the tomb of the Scipios. It is in a vineyard... | |
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There is a stern round tower of other days, Firm as a fortress, with its fence of stone, Such as an army's baffled strength delays, Standing with half its battlements alone, And with two thousand years of ivy grown, The garland of eternity, where wave... 
