 ... dominant, and sitteth upon a sphinx, and looketh unto Memphis and old Thebes, while his sister Oblivion reclineth semisomnous on a pyramid, gloriously triumphing, making puzzles of Titanian erections, and turning old glories into dreams. History sinketh...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 5301870Full view - About this book
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 576 pages
...triumphing, making puzzles of Titanian erections, and turning old glories into dreams. History sinketh beneath her cloud. The traveller as he paceth amazedly...mumbleth something, but what it is he heareth not. Egypt itself is now become the land of obliviousness and doteth. Her ancient civility is gone, and... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 578 pages
...triumphing, making puzzles of Titanian erections, and turning old glories into dreams. History sinketh beneath her cloud. The traveller as he paceth amazedly...mumbleth something, but what it is he heareth not. Egypt itself is now become the land of obliviousness and doteth. Her ancient civility is gone, and... | |
 | 1837 - 704 pages
...triumphing, making puzzles of Titaniau erections, and turning old glories into dreams. 'History sinketh beneath her cloud. The traveller, as he paceth amazedly...mumbleth something, but what it is he heareth not.' We cannot lay aside these volumes without again expressing our conviction, that the works of Sir Thomas... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - Periodicals - 1837 - 648 pages
...pyramid, making puzzles of Titanian erections, and turning old glories into dreams. History sinketh beneath her cloud. The traveller, as he paceth amazedly...mumbleth something, but what it is, he heareth not.' Thus it is, that the position of our being defies all primary or ultimate inquiry. If we look back,... | |
 | John L. Stephens - Arabia, Roman - 1837 - 294 pages
...and turning old glories into dreams. History sinketh beneath her cloud. The traveller, as he passeth amazedly through those deserts, asketh of her who...mumbleth something, but what it is he heareth not." It is now more than three thousand years since the curse went forth against the land of Egypt. The... | |
 | John L. Stephens - Arabs - 1837 - 686 pages
...and turning old glories into dreams. History sinketh beneath her cloud. The traveller, as he passeth amazedly through those deserts, asketh of her who builded them, and she mumblcth something, but what it is he heareth not." It is now more than three thousand years since... | |
 | Alexander Crawford Lindsay Earl of Crawford - Arab countries - 1838 - 436 pages
...triumphing, making puzzles of Titanian erections, and turning old glories into dreams. History sinketh beneath her cloud. The traveller, as he paceth amazedly...mumbleth something, but what it is he heareth not. " Egypt itself is now become the land of obliviousness and doteth. Her ancient civility is gone, and... | |
 | Alexander Crawford Lindsay Earl of Crawford - Arab countries - 1838 - 436 pages
...and turning old glories into dreams. History sinketh beneath her cloud. The traveller, as hepaceth amazedly through those deserts, asketh of her, Who...mumbleth something, but what it is he heareth not. " Egypt itself is now become the land of obliviousness and doteth. Her ancient civility is gone, and... | |
 | John L. Stephens - Arabian Peninsula - 1838 - 282 pages
...History sinketh beneath her cloud. The traveller, as he passeth amazedly through those deserts, askelh of her who builded them, and she mumbleth something, but what it is he heareth not." It is now more than three thousand years since the curse went forth against the land of Egypt. The... | |
 | Comparative government - 1841 - 210 pages
...triumphing, making puzzles of Titanian erections, and turning old glories into dreams. History sinketh beneath her cloud. The traveller, as he paceth amazedly...mumbleth something, but what it is, he heareth not." The discovery of hieroglyphics, the most wonderful discovery of a wonderful age, has thrown great light... | |
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