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" 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 62
by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1872
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The complete works of lord Byron, repr. from the last London ed ..., Volume 1

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 982 pages
...ago; The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now ; (2) The very sepulchres lie tenantless Of their beroic dwellers : dost thou flow, Old Tiber! through a marble...her distress. LXXX. The Goth, the Christian, Time, \Var, Flood, and Fire, Have dealt upon the seven-hill'd city's pride; She saw her glories star by star...
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Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt, Volume 1

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1837 - 352 pages
...flow, Old Tiher ! through a marhle wilderness ? 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 ; She saw her glories star hy star expire, And up the steep harharian monarchs...
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Impressions at home and abroad; or, A year of real life

James Roderick O'Flanagan - 1837 - 716 pages
...tourist surveys the outlines of the land which contains magnificent Rome ! INTRODUCTION TO MY TOUR. 213 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 raonarchs...
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The New-York Review, Volume 3

1838 - 514 pages
...never be able to throw its oblivious mantle over these works of genius, which have survived all that "The Goth, the Christian, Time, War, Flood, and Fire," have dealt upon them. Well might Petrarch exclaim, as he embraced the silent volume of a manuscript Homer, just brought...
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Portfolio of an Artist

Rembrandt Peale - American literature - 1839 - 276 pages
...The Niobe of nations ! there she stands Childless and crownless, in her voiceless wo — * * * * * * 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...
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Rome, and Its Surrounding Scenery

Rome (Italy) - 1840 - 382 pages
...to form one of the most interesting shrines for the visits of the pilgrims ; but— " The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now ; The very sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers." One sarcophagus, that of Scipio Barbatus, has been removed to the Vatican museum, and forms but an...
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The Complete Works of Lord Byron: Reprinted from the Last London Edition ...

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 pages
...wither'd hands, Whose holy dust was scatter'd long ago; The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now ; (2) r clank, I saw it silently decline — And so perchance...the deer and wolf; To him this dungeon was a gulf, seven-hill'd city's pride; She saw her glories star by star expire, And up the steep barbarian monarch*...
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Letters from an Artist, Sojourning on the Continent

Joshua Horner - Art - 1841 - 162 pages
...woe; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago ; The Sciplo's tomb contains no ashes now ; The very sepulchres lie...Rise, with thy yellow waves, and mantle her distress ! The Goth, the Chtlstlan, Time, War, Flood, and Fire, Have dealt upon the seven-hilled city's pride...
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Sir Henry Delmé, by a bushman

sir Henry Delmé (fict.name.) - 1841 - 524 pages
...voiceless woe; An empty urn within her wither'd hands, Whose holy dust was scatter'd long ago. The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now; The very sepulchres lie...Rise, with thy yellow waves, and mantle her distress." UNDERTAKERS ! uot one word shall henceforth pass our lips in your dispraise! An useful and meritorious...
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The works of lord Byron, with notes by T. Moore [and others].

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 pages
...wither'd hands, Whose holy dust was scatter'd long ago ; The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now; б hem fall. LXIL But these recede. Above me are the...pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eterni dbtress. maturity. I certainly do not speak on this point from ялу pique or aversion towards the...
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