A Record of the Pyramids: A Drama in Ten ScenesSaunders and Otley, 1842 - 156 Seiten |
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... Behold those Pyramids ! -those accursed heaps Of black misshapen stone ; and those pale slaves , Those human ants that throng round them in dense Clusters , like bees around their waxen cells ; Toiling to rear them with a zeal as great ...
... Behold those Pyramids ! -those accursed heaps Of black misshapen stone ; and those pale slaves , Those human ants that throng round them in dense Clusters , like bees around their waxen cells ; Toiling to rear them with a zeal as great ...
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... behold Thyself ; thy limbs are cumbered with gilt trappings , The gauds and floating vestments of a woman . Thy brow is bound with silk , not steel : thy face ( For to the body doth the mind accord ) Hath changed its character , and is ...
... behold Thyself ; thy limbs are cumbered with gilt trappings , The gauds and floating vestments of a woman . Thy brow is bound with silk , not steel : thy face ( For to the body doth the mind accord ) Hath changed its character , and is ...
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... Behold , in yonder niche a human form Doth stand immoveable , and points toward me , With look and gesture solemn and severe ; He wears the shape and attitude of Moris , Even like his statue in the porch of Memphis . ( Drawing ...
... Behold , in yonder niche a human form Doth stand immoveable , and points toward me , With look and gesture solemn and severe ; He wears the shape and attitude of Moris , Even like his statue in the porch of Memphis . ( Drawing ...
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... Behold , how darkly they hold commune with us , Pointing through extreme opposites their will , Even from the bosom of my deadliest foe Making thy heart their chosen herald , whilst Embodying what was shadowed in my own ! To waver now ...
... Behold , how darkly they hold commune with us , Pointing through extreme opposites their will , Even from the bosom of my deadliest foe Making thy heart their chosen herald , whilst Embodying what was shadowed in my own ! To waver now ...
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... But it was built to be upheld by men , To bring forth men , which , when it fails to do , Shall perish . NUBIAN . How ! can Memphis fall ? -behold How she is based ! The hill hath turned its SCENE II . ] 23 THE PYRAMIDS .
... But it was built to be upheld by men , To bring forth men , which , when it fails to do , Shall perish . NUBIAN . How ! can Memphis fall ? -behold How she is based ! The hill hath turned its SCENE II . ] 23 THE PYRAMIDS .
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A Record of the Pyramids: A Drama, in Ten Scenes (Classic Reprint) John Edmund Reade Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2018 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
altar Amasis BABYLONIAN bear beautiful Behold beneath blessed bosom breath brow Cambyses CATILINE chains CHIEF HIEROPHANT CHIEF PREFECT crown crushed dared death deeds descend divinity Dost thou doth Drama dream dwell earth Egypt EGYPTIAN embruted EPIMETHEUS eternal eyes falchion fear feel fellow-men felt fire flame forgot freedom gather glory gods guard hands hath hear heard heart heaven Herodotus honour hope human immortal infinite inspiration John Gorham Palfrey justice king labour lake Liberty light LILIS living mankind MEMPHIAN Memphis mighty hearts mind Moris MULTITUDE Nature Nature's never Nile NUBIAN o'er Osiris passions PHOENICIAN Plato Plotinus Poem poet priests PROMETHEUS pure Pyramids records rise round ruins says SCENE SEGED sense shew shrine silent slavery slaves sleep soul spirit Spiritus intus alit stand strength sublime temple Thebes thee thine thou art thou dost thou hast thought throne truth tyranny tyrants voice Voices of prophecy wind worship
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 49 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do; Not light them for themselves: for, if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike
Seite 103 - perils did abound As thick as thought could make them, and appear In forms more horrid, yet my duty, As doth a rock against the chiding flood. Should the approach of this wild river break, And stand
Seite 67 - full meridian of my glory I haste DOW to my setting. I shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the evening. And no man see me more.
Seite 91 - It were all one That I should love a bright particular star. And think to wed it, he is so above me: In
Seite 15 - It is the mind that makes the body rich ; And, as the sun breaks through the darkest cloud, So honour peereth in the meanest habit.
Seite xxv - GOD hath made all things beautiful in their seasons ; also, He hath placed the world in man's heart: yet cannot man find out the work which GOD worketh from the beginning to the end.
Seite 37 - Wilt thou draw near the nature of the gods ? Draw near them, then, in being merciful; Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge
Seite 103 - of beatun brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron. Can be retentive to the strength of spirit!"
Seite 121 - using, as vehicles, every species of terrestrial, winged, and aquatic animals, it finally enters, a second time, into the human body. They affirm that it undergoes all these changes in the space of three thousand years.
Seite 126 - west," behind; "south," the right; and " the north," obscure, or concealed. The three first of these terms denote the position of an adorer of the sun; the last describes the darkness with which the first inhabitants of the earth believed the northern part of the globe to be enveloped.