 | James Edward Murdoch, William Russell - 1845 - 374 ページ
...shout, shout aloud for joy ! " Fear: — "With noiseless foot she treads the marble floor." Grief: — " The Niobe of nations ! there she stands Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe/ " " Oh ! pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers ! "... | |
 | John Frost - 1845 - 458 ページ
...sigh, a tear, so sweet, he wish'd not to control. 212 THE AMERICAN SPEAKER. 82. DESCRIPTION OF ROME. THE Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless wo ; An empty urn within her wither'd hands, Whose holy dust was scatter'd long ago : The Scipios'... | |
 | William Mitchell Gillespie - 1845 - 230 ページ
...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,... | |
 | William Russell - 1846 - 420 ページ
...temples, Ye ! Whose agonies are evils of a day : — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. ' The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless...hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago ; — The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now ; The very sepulchres lie tenantless * Pathos, repose, and solemnity,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 848 ページ
...Whose agonies are cvili of a day— A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. LXXIX. Ilie Niobo b withcr'd hands, Whose huly dust was scatter' d long ago ; Tne Scipios1 I omb contains no ashes now;41... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1846 - 312 ページ
...our feet as fragile as our clay. The Niobe of nations! there she stands, Childless and crovvnless, in her voiceless woe; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scatter'd long ago ; The Scipio's tomb contains no ashes now; The very sepulchres lie tenantlcss Of... | |
 | D. L. Carroll - 1846 - 386 ページ
...which are deaf to every cry save that of an inexorable and fiendish cupidity! Poor, bleeding Africa! ! "The Niobe of nations— there she stands, Childless and crownless in her voiceless wo." Her weeds of mourning have never been laid aside for centuries. Her cheeks have never been free... | |
 | William Ingraham Kip - 1846 - 478 ページ
...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... | |
 | D. L. Carroll - 1846 - 384 ページ
...are deaf to every cry save that of an inexorable and fiendish cupidity! Poor, bleeding Africa !! " The Niobe of nations — there she stands, Childless and crownless in her voiceless wo." Her weeds of mourning have never been laid aside for centuries. Her cheeks have never been free... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 ページ
...temples, Ye ! Whose agonies are evils of a day— A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. LXXIX. rosit video ingenium ; alterius sic Altera posc wither'd hands, Whose holy dust was scatter'd long ago; The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now; *... | |
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The Niobe of nations, — there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago ; The Scipios... 
