| 1906 - 638 páginas
...mighty mounds That overlook the rivers, or that rise In the dim forests crowded with old o.'iks Answer. A race, that long has passed away, Built them ; — a disciplined and populous race Heaped with long toil, the earth, while yet the Greek Was hewing the Pentelicus to forms Of symmetry, and rearing on... | |
| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1866 - 508 páginas
...made and sent to his friend, JG Swift. To most youths of his age those remains of structures, built "while yet the Greek Was hewing the Pentelicus to...and rearing on its rock The glittering Parthenon," nological importance which has since been attached to them, he could yet appreciate them as objects... | |
| James Hurt - 1992 - 180 páginas
...pre-Indian people, "a race that long has passed away," he imagines that they were building the mounds while yet the Greek Was hewing the Pentelicus to forms...and rearing on its rock The glittering Parthenon. The gentle, pastoral "mound-builders," he imagines, were slaughtered by Indians, "roaming hunter tribes,... | |
| Robert S. Tilton - 1994 - 278 páginas
...Mound Builders, whom he describes as "a disciplined and populous race / [who] Heaped, with long toil, the earth, while yet the Greek / Was hewing the Pentelicus...symmetry, and rearing on its rock / The glittering Parthenon."76 The Mound Builders cultivated the land, domesticated animals, and presumably lived a... | |
| Jay Parini - 1995 - 788 páginas
...race, that long has passed away, Built them;—a disciplined and populous race Heaped, with long toil, the earth, while yet the Greek Was hewing the Pentelicus...and rearing on its rock The glittering Parthenon. These ample fields Nourished their harvests, here their herds were fed, When haply by their stalls... | |
| Various - 1996 - 496 páginas
...mighty mounds That overlook the rivers, or that rise In the dim forest crowded with old oaks, 45 Answer. A race, that long has passed away, Built them; — a disciplined and populous race Heaped, with long toil, the earth, while yet the Greek Was hewing the Pentelicus to forms Of symmetry, and rearing on... | |
| Alison Hawthorne Deming - 1996 - 362 páginas
...Bryant That overlook the rivers, or that rise & In the dim forest crowded with old oaks, ' Answer. A race, that long has passed away, Built them,- —...a disciplined and populous race Heaped, with long toil, the earth, while yet the Greek Was hewing the Pentelicus to forms Of symmetry, and rearing on... | |
| Andrew R. L. Cayton, Susan E. Gray - 2001 - 270 páginas
...but also "struggled against enemies" who overcame them. The Indians of the late 60 Eric Hinderaker has passed away, / Built them; — a disciplined and populous race / Heaped, with long toil, the earth, while yet the Greek / Was hewing the Pentelicus to forms / of symmetry." What became... | |
| Patrick Brantlinger - 2003 - 276 páginas
...In his 1832 poem, "The Prairies," William Cullen Bryant writes of "the mighty mounds" in Illinois: A race, that long has passed away, Built them;— a disciplined and populous race Heaped, with long toil, the earth, while yet the Greek Was hewing the Pentelicus to forms Of symmetry, and rearing on... | |
| Andrew R. L. Cayton, Richard Sisson, Chris Zacher - 2006 - 1918 páginas
...mighty mounds That overlook the rivers, or that rise In the dim forest crowded with old oaks, Answer. A race, that long has passed away, Built them; — a disciplined and populous race Heaped, with long toil, the earth, while yet the Greek Was hewing the Pentelicus to forms Of symmetry, and rearing on... | |
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