What are the hopes of man? Old Egypt's king Cheops erected the first pyramid, And largest, thinking it was just the thing To keep his memory whole, and mummy hid; But somebody or other, rummaging, Burglariously broke his coffin's lid: Let not a monument... Don Juan, with notes. Complete ed - Seite 52von George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1857Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1878 - 636 Seiten
...dust, A name, a wretched picture, and worse busL ccxix. What are the hopes of man ? Old Egypt's king Cheops erected the first pyramid, And largest, thinking...Cheops. ccxx. But I, being fond of true philosophy, Say very often to myself, "Alas I All things that have been born were born to die. And flesh (which... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1880 - 630 Seiten
...dust, A name, a wretched picture, and worse hust. CCXIX. What are the hopes of man? Old Egypt's king nnot hear to leave you thus. somehody or other, rummaging, Burglariously hroke his coffin's lid : Let not a monument give you or... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1881 - 800 Seiten
...[taper.' A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust. ccxix. What are the hopes of man ? Old Egypt's king canals they go, And under the Rialto Say very often to myself, ' Alas 1 All things that have been born were born to die, And flesh (which... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1881 - 680 Seiten
...dust, A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust. ccxix. What are the hopes of man? Old Egypt's king Cheops erected the first pyramid, And largest, thinking...somebody or other, rummaging, Burglariously broke his coffin s lid : I * t not a monument give you or me hopes, Since not a pinch of dust remains of Cheops.... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1881 - 610 Seiten
...name, a wretehed pieture, and worse bust. What are the hopes of man ? Old Egypt's King Cheops ereeted the first pyramid And largest, thinking it was just...thing To keep his memory whole, and mummy hid ; But somehody or other rummaging Burglarously broke his eoffin's lid : Let not a monument give you or me... | |
| Half hours - 1881 - 402 Seiten
...hotel-keeper has packed any soda-water or pale ale for lunch, for it is very hot : or mutters with Byron, " Let not a monument give you or me hopes, Since not a pinch of dust remains of Cheops." It is, after all, very humiliating to think how a slight pain in foot or head, a disagreeable argument,... | |
| Charles Francis Blackburn - 1884 - 204 Seiten
...observatory, tomb, and temple, by RA PBOCTOB. Chatto, 1883 What are the hopes of man ? Old Egypt's king Cheops erected the first pyramid And largest, thinking...it was just the thing To keep his memory whole, and mammy hid ; But somebody or other rummaging. Burglariously broke bis coffin's lid: Let not a monument... | |
| Norman Macleod - 1884 - 362 Seiten
...geologists, until at last the chances are that one gets bewildered and dreamy, and mutters with Byron : — " Let not a monument give you or me hopes, Since not a pinch of dust remains of Cheops." Yet confessedly, few can escape in such circumstances an awed feeling of vast and unknown antiquity,... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1885 - 284 Seiten
..."midnight taper," To have, when the original is dust, ccxix. What are the hopes of man ? Old Egypt's King Cheops erected the first pyramid And largest, thinking...or me hopes, Since not a pinch of dust remains of Cheops.54 But I being fond of true philosophy, Say very often to myself, " Alas ! All things that have... | |
| 1886 - 476 Seiten
...of their corporeal frame which they especially sought, is exactly what they have missed attaining. Let not a monument give you or me hopes, ^ Since not a pinch of dust remains of Che6ps, says the doggerel of the satiric Byron ; and it is the absolute fact that while thousands of... | |
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