 His wandering step Obedient to high thoughts, has visited The awful ruins of the days of old : Athens, and Tyre, and Balbec, and the waste Where stood Jerusalem, the fallen towers Of Babylon, the eternal pyramids, Memphis and Thebes, and whatsoe'er of...  The Influence of Milton on English Poetry - Page 230by Raymond Dexter Havens - 1922 - 722 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...leaf rustles in the brake, suspend Her timid steps to gaze upon a form More graceful than her own. His wandering step, Obedient to high thoughts, has...awful ruins of the days of old : Athens, and Tyre, and Balbee, and the waste Where stood Jerusalem, the fallen towers Of Babylon, the eternal pyramids, Memphis... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1847 - 344 pages
...leaf rustles in the brake, suspends Her timid steps, to gaze upon a form More graceful than her own. His wandering step, Obedient to high thoughts, has...on alabaster obelisk Or jasper tomb, or mutilated Sphinx — Dark Ethiopia on her desert hills Conceals. Among the ruined temples there, Stupendous columns,... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Fore-edge painting - 1847 - 578 pages
...leaf rustles in the brake, suspend Her timid steps, to gaze upon a form More graceful than her own. His wandering step, Obedient to high thoughts, has...on alabaster obelisk, Or jasper tomb, or mutilated sphinx, Dark Ethiopia on her desert hills Conceals. Among the ruined temples there, Stupendous columns,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1847 - 638 pages
...leaf rostles in the brake, sunpcnd Her timid steps, to gaze upon a form More graceful than her own. His wandering step, Obedient to high thoughts, has...Jerusalem, the fallen towers Of Babylon, the eternal pj'ramids, Memphis and Thebes, and whatsoe'er of strange, Sculptur'd on alabaster obelisk, Of jasper... | |
 | Ralph Nickolson Wornum - 1847 - 534 pages
...imposing grandeur of its works now so impressive upon the modern traveller along the banks of the Nile. The Eternal Pyramids, Memphis and Thebes, and whatsoe'er...on alabaster obelisk, Or jasper tomb, or mutilated Sphinx, Dark Ethiopia on her desert hills Conceals.* The history of art in Egypt may be divided into... | |
 | Ralph Nicholson Wornum - Painting - 1847 - 520 pages
...imposing grandeur of its works now so impressive upon the modern traveller along the banks of the Nile. The Eternal Pyramids, Memphis and Thebes, and whatsoe'er...on alabaster obelisk, Or jasper tomb, or mutilated Sphinx, Dark Ethiopia on her desert hills Conceals.* The history of art in Egypt may be divided into... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1849 - 406 pages
...leaf rustles in the brake, suspend Her timid steps, to gaze upon a form More graceful than her own. ,\ His wandering step, Obedient to high thoughts, has...on alabaster obelisk, Or jasper tomb, or mutilated sphinx. Dark Ethiopia on her desert hills Conceals. Among the ruined temples there, Stupendous columns,... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks - Bible - 1850 - 462 pages
...obelisks, 28. JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE UP THE NILE, MADE BETWEEN THE MONTHS OF NOVEMBER, 1848, AND APRIL, 1849. -His wandering step, Obedient to high thoughts, has...awful ruins of the days of old : Athens, and Tyre, and Balbcc, and the waste Where stood Jerusalem, the fallen towers Of Babylon, the eternal pyramids, Memphis... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1852 - 482 pages
...either from their situation, history, or monuments. Our imaginary pilgrimage will carry us to— " the eternal pyramids ; Memphis and Thebes, and whatsoe'er of strange, Sculptured on alabaster obelisk, Dark Ethiopia on her desert hills Or jasper tomb, or mutilated sphinx: Conceals, among the ruined temples... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1860 - 522 pages
...leaf rustles in the brake, suspend Her timid steps, to gaze upon a form More graceful than her own. His wandering step, Obedient to high thoughts, has...on alabaster obelisk, Or jasper tomb, or mutilated sphinx, Dark Ethiopia on her desert hills Conceals. Among the ruined temples there Stupendous columns,... | |
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