 | William Wordsworth - 1899 - 308 pages
...Red-cross Knight, they urge their way, To lead in memorable triumph home Truth, their immortal Una ? Babylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly,...Speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her; — Memphis,Tyre, are gone With all their Arts, — but classic lore glides on By these Religious saved... | |
 | Claudius James Rich - 1839 - 490 pages
... HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY BABYLON AND PERSEPOLIS. BABYLON, LEARNED AND WISE, HATH PERISH'D UTTERLY, NOR LEAVES HER SPEECH ONE WORD TO AID THE SIGH THAT WOULD LAMENT HER. WORDSWORTH. O NARRATIVE OF A JOURNEY 70 THE SITE OF BABYLON IN 1811, NOW FIRST PUBLISHED: MEMOIR ON... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 688 pages
...Red-cross Knight, they urge their way, To lead in memorable triumph home Truth, their immortal Una t Babylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly,...Speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her ; — Memphis, Tyre, arc gone With all their Arts, — but classic lore glides on By these Religious... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...Red-cross Knight, they urge theirway, To lead in memorable triumph home Truth, their immortal Una ? Babylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly,...leaves her Speech one word to aid the sigh That would I amen t her ; — Memphis, Tyre, are gone With all then- Arts, — but classic lore glides ou By these... | |
 | George Frederick Graham, Henry Reed - 1847 - 374 pages
...Through the still night ; PL, x. 845. To find her, or forever to deplore Her loss Id., viii. 47». Babylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly,...speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her. WORDSWOBTH. ' Ecckt. Sotuuti.' Full oft our human foresight I deplore ; Trembling, through my unworthiness,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1851 - 748 pages
...Ramsey Monastery. t Penances were removable by the performance of ac« of charity and benevolence. Nor leaves her speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her; — Memphis, Tyre, are gone With all their Arts, — but classic Lore glides on, By these Religious... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 416 pages
...longer understanding one another's speech — one generation, too, becoming unintelligible to another. So must it ever be as long as a cloud of divine displeasure...speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her." yet not one word survives that was spoken by the tens of thousands who toiled in building them : "Egyptian... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1856 - 484 pages
...passed forever out of the memory of man. " Palmyra, central in the desert,"* is no more than a name; and "Babylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly,...speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her/'f Britain did not lie in the path of the ancient world. J am very sure that when we think of ancient... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 242 pages
...longer understanding one another's speech — one generation, too, becoming unintelligible to another. So must it ever be as long as a cloud of divine displeasure...Pyramids, mysterious in their unnumbered centuries, ar« standing almost as imperishable as the Nile, and yet not one word survives that was spoken by... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1857 - 372 pages
...still night ; PL, x. 845. 1 waked To find her, or forever to deplore Her loss Id., viii. 479. Bahylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly, Nor leaves...speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her. WORDSWORTH. ' Eccles. Full oft our human foresight I deplore ; Tremhling, through my unworthiness,... | |
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Babylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly, Nor leaves her Speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her... 
