Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now ; The very sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers : dost thou flow, Old Tiber ! through a marble wilderness ? Rise, with thy yellow waves, and mantle her distress. Childe Harold's pilgrimage: Italy - Page 64by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1872Full view - About this book
 | Theology - 1845 - 816 pages
...woe ; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago ; The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now ; The very sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers." We have thus traced the history of two grand experiments in government. The first system was beautiful,... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 494 pages
...flow, Old Tiber! through a marble wilderness? Rise, with thy yellow waves, and mantle her distress. The Goth, the Christian, Time, War, Flood, and Fire, Have dealt upon the seven-hilled city's pride. She saw her glories star by star expire, And up the steep barbarian monarchs... | |
 | William Mitchell Gillespie - Rome (Italy) - 1845 - 230 pages
...there, where once lay the bodies of the dead for whom it was excavated. But " The Scipios' tombs contain no ashes now ; The very sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers." 6 All have been dug up to gratify our Gothic curiosity, and at the end of the subterraneous labyrinth,... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1846 - 314 pages
...was scatter'd long ago ; The Scipio's tomb contains no ashes now; The very sepulchres lie tenantlcss Of their heroic dwellers : dost thou flow, Old Tiber...Rise, with thy yellow waves, and mantle her distress. The Goth, the Christian, Time, War, Flood, and Fire, Have dealt upon the seven-hill'd city's pride;... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 764 pages
...tenant lees Of their heroic dwellers : dosl thou flow, Old Tiber! through a marble wilderness? 1'ise, h* ) seven-hill'd city's pride ; She saw her glories star by star expire, And up the steep barbarian monarch*... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1846 - 420 pages
...comparatively moderate limits of pure tone. The orotund is the distinctive quality of grandeur and power. Of their heroic dwellers : — dost thou flow, Old...Rise, with thy yellow waves, and mantle her distress !' Repose, Solemnity, and Sublimity. Evening. — Milton. •" Now came still evening on ; and twilight... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 1068 pages
...very sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers: dost Ihou flow, Old Tiber! through a maride wilderness? Rise, with thy yellow waves, and mantle...The Goth, the Christian, Time, War, Flood, and Fire, Нате dealt upon the seven-hill'd city's pride ; She saw her glories star by star expire, And up... | |
 | Quintus Horatius Flaccus - 1846 - 452 pages
...established phrase, nor do I know a better." (Rome in the Nineteenth Century, vol. i. D. 84.) Compare: Dost thou flow. Old Tiber, through a marble wilderness...Rise, with thy yellow waves, and mantle her distress. CHILDB HAR. IV. 79. 14. Litore Etrusco. The violence of the storm forced the waves of the Tiber from... | |
 | Quintus Horatius Flaccus - 1846 - 452 pages
...established phrase, nor do I know a better." (Borne in the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1. D. 84.) Compare : Dost thou flow. Old Tiber, through a marble wilderness ? Rise, with thy yellow waves, and mantle her distrcs*. CHILDB HAB. IV. 79. 14. Litare Etrvtco. The violence of the itorm forced the waves of the... | |
 | William Ingraham Kip - Rome (Italy) - 1846 - 474 pages
...this would be despoiled of its noble dust, and turned into a common show-place ! " The Scipios' lomb contains no ashes now ; The very sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers." In the same vineyard is a large Columbarium, a place where were deposited urns filled with the ashes... | |
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