| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1824 - 608 páginas
...been fine, their surfaces and corners smooth, sharp, and uninjured by time. They are neither grey nor blackened ; like the bones of man, they seem to whiten...fig-tree to robe them, and to conceal their deformities, anil bloom above them. No : — all is the nakedness of desolation — the colossal skeleton of a giant... | |
| Moyle Sherer - 1825 - 454 páginas
...been fine, their surfaces and corners smooth, sharp, and uninjured by time. They are neither grey nor blackened ; like the bones of man, they seem to whiten...to conceal their deformities, and bloom above them. No;—all is the nakedness of desolation,— the colossal skeleton of a giant fabric standing in the... | |
| 1825 - 598 páginas
...been tine, their surfaces and corners smooth, sharp sun-injured by time. They are neither grey nor blackened ; like the bones of man, they seem to whiten...lichen, no moss, no rank grass or mantling ivy, no waU flower, or wild figtree to robe them, and to conceal their deformities, and bloom above •them.... | |
| John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 páginas
...been fine, their surfaces and corners smooth, sharp, and uninjured by time. They are neither grey nor blackened; like the bones of man, they seem to whiten...no wallflower or wild fig-tree to robe them, and to con* ceal their deformities, and bloom above them. No ; —all is the nakedness of desolation—the... | |
| Dugald Moore - 1831 - 276 páginas
...war-horse, and the shout as of a king among them, all on this silent spot ; the ruins are neither grey nor blackened, — like the bones of man they seem to...sun of the desert ; here is no lichen, no moss, no wall-flower, or wild fig-tree to conceal their deformities ; no ; all is the nakedness of desolation,... | |
| John L. Stephens - 1837 - 686 páginas
...there is no lichen, no moss, no rank grass or mantling ivy, to robe them and conceal their deformities. Like the bones of man, they seem to whiten under the sun of the desert." The sand of Africa has been their most fearful enemy ; blown upon them for more than three thousand... | |
| St. Leger Landon Carter - 1844 - 230 páginas
...gallery of pictures by the Sun. * They are neither gray nor blackened. They have no lichen nor moss, but like the bones of man, they seem to whiten under the sun of the desert — Stephens. 118 A MENTAL RETROSPECTION. I once could see, but now am blind — The world is dark... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 754 páginas
...been fine, their surfaces and corners smooth, sharp, and uninjured by time. They are neither grey nor blackened; like the bones of man, they seem to whiten...conceal their deformities, and bloom above them. No ; — nil is the nakedness of desolation — the colossal skeleton of a giant fabric standing in the... | |
| 1850 - 386 páginas
...their surfaces and corners smooth, sharp, and uninjured by time. They are neither grey nor blackdied ; like the bones of man, they seem to whiten under the...conceal their deformities, and bloom above them. No, all the nakedness of desolation—the colossal skeleton of a giant fabric standing m the unwatered sand,... | |
| Salem Town - 1850 - 374 páginas
...is no lichen, no moss, no rank grass, or mantling ivy, to robe them ' and conceal their deformities. Like the bones of man, they seem to whiten under the sun of the desert. The sand of Africa has been their most fearful enemy ; blown upon them. for more than three thousand... | |
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