 | Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - 1851 - 374 sidor
...universe ; the last ray is gone, and horror reigns ! A wail of terror fills the murky air, the clangour of brazen trumpets resounds, an agony of despair dashes...stands. The monument reared to his honour stands ; and although the touch of time has effaced the lettering of his name, it is powerless, and cannot destroy... | |
 | Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - 1851 - 366 sidor
...blow, and that blow struck by a single arm. And now do you demand the name of this wonderful man 1 Alas ! what a lesson of the instability of earthly...stands. The monument reared to his honour stands ; and although the touch of time has effaced the lettering of his name, it is powerless, and cannot destroy... | |
 | 1852 - 452 sidor
...instability of earthly fame are we taught in this simple recital. Ho who had raised himself immeasurably above his race, who must have been regarded by his...name, age, country are all swept into oblivion, but the proud achievement remains. The monument reared to his honor stands ; and, although the touch of... | |
 | 1852 - 844 sidor
...instability of earthly fame are we taught in this simple recital. He who had raised himself immeasurably above his race, who must have been regarded by his...name, age, country are all swept into oblivion, but the proud achievement remains. The monument reared to his honor stands ; and, although the touch of... | |
 | 1854 - 862 sidor
...instability of earthly fame are we taught in this simple recital. He who had raised himself immeasurably above his race, — who must have been regarded by...proud achievement stands. The monument reared to his honor stands, and although the touch of time has effaced the lettering of his name, it is powerless,and... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 490 sidor
...ip^amnty of earthly fame are we taught in this simple recital ! lle^TTo had raised himself immeasurably above his race, who must have been regarded by his...point of a diamond,"" even this one has perished/ LXXVIII. — SELECT PASSAGES IN VEBSB. 1. A PRATER. — Thornton. FATHER of light and life ! thou Good... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 488 sidor
...instability of earthly fame are we taught in this simple recital ! He who had raised himself immeasurably above his race, who must have been regarded by his...the sun, with a " pen of iron, and the point of a diamond,"*1 even this one has perished from the earth ; name, age, country, are all swept into oblivion.... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1859 - 450 sidor
...recital ! He who had raised himself immeasurably above his race, who must have been regarded by hia fellows as little less than a god, who had inscribed...into oblivion. But his proud achievement stands. The monument2' reared to his honor stands, and although the touch of time has effaced the lettering of... | |
 | Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - 1860 - 698 sidor
...universe ; the last ray is gone, and horror reigns ! A wail of terror fills the murky air, the clangour of brazen trumpets resounds, an agony of despair dashes...stands. The monument reared to his honour stands ; and although the touch of time has effaeed the lettering of his name, it is powerless, and cannot destroy... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 530 sidor
...instability of earthly fame are we taught in this simple recital ! He who had raised him00 self immeasurably above his race, — who must have been regarded by...who had inscribed his fame on the very heavens, and written it in the sun, with a " pen of iron, and the point of a diamond," even this one had perished... | |
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He who had raised himself immeasureably above his race, who must have been regarded by his fellows as little less than a god, who had inscribed his fame on the very heavens, and had written it in the sun, with a " pen of iron, and the point of a diamond,"... 
