 | 1828 - Broj stranica: 454
...as their labours closed ; Slime the materials, but the slime was turn'd To adamant by their petrific touch; Frail were their frames, ephemeral their lives,...to carry on the process, Which out of water brought for;h solid rock. • • • •• • • • " Compared with this amazing edifice, Raised by the... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1827 - Broj stranica: 198
...as their labours closed: Slime the material, but the slime was turn'd To adamant, by their petrific touch ; Frail were their frames, ephemeral their lives,...process, Which out of water brought forth solid rock. Atom by atom thus the burthen grew, Even like an infant in the womb, till Time Deliver'd ocean of that... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1827 - Broj stranica: 296
...labours closed : Slime the material, but the slime was turn'd To adamant, by their petrific touch ; c 2 Frail were their frames, ephemeral their lives, Their...process, Which out of water brought forth solid rock. Atom by atom thus the burthen grew, Even like an infant in the womb, till Tune Deliver'd ocean of that... | |
 | 1827 - Broj stranica: 808
...architects, Still dying upwards as their labours closed : Slime the material, but the slime was turn -I To adamant, by their pétrifie touch ; Frail were...lives. Their masonry imperishable. All Life's needful function*, food, exertion, rest, By nice economy of Piovidenee Were overruled to carry on the process.... | |
 | 1828 - Broj stranica: 924
...as their labours clos'd : Slime the material, but the slime was turn'd To adamant by their petrific touch; Frail were their frames, ephemeral their lives,...process, Which out of water brought forth solid rock. — Atom by atom, thus the burthen grew," &c. This is but a brief specimen of one of the finest pieces... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1829 - Broj stranica: 520
...was turn'd To adamant, by their pétrifie touch; Frail were their frames, ephemeral llieir live», Their masonry imperishable. All Life's needful functions,...process, Which out of water brought forth solid rock. Atom by atom thus the burthen grew, Even like an infant in the womb, till Time Deliver' d ocean of... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1830 - Broj stranica: 514
...architects, Sr ill dying upwards as their labors closed : Slime the material, but the ulime was tura'd To adamant, by their pétrifie touch ; Frail were...process, Which out of water brought forth solid rock. Atom by atom thus the burthen grew, Even like an infant in the womb, till Time Delrver'd ocean of that... | |
 | 1827 - Broj stranica: 822
...their petrific touch ; Frail were their frames, ephemeral their lives, Their masonry imperisliahle. All Life's needful functions, food, exertion, rest,...process, Which out of water brought forth solid rock. 1'he comparison instituted between the labours of these minute architects and the wonders of Babylon... | |
 | 1836 - Broj stranica: 514
...touch ; Frail were Iheir frames, ephemeral their lives, Tlieir masonry imperishable. All i .ill '- needful functions, food, exertion, rest, By nice economy of Providence Were overruled to cany on the process, Which out of water brought forth solid rock. Alom by ntom thus the burthen grew,... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1838 - Broj stranica: 372
...as their labours closed ; Slime the material, but the sliine was turned To adamant by their petrific touch. Frail were their frames, ephemeral their lives,...process Which out of water brought forth solid rock. Atom by atom, thus the mountain grew A coral island, stretching east and west ; Steep were the flanks,... | |
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To adamant, by their petrific touch; Frail were their frames, ephemeral their lives, Their masonry imperishable. All Life's needful functions, food, exertion, rest, By nice economy of Providence Were overruled to carry on the process, Which out of water... 
