 | British poets - 1822 - 272 Seiten
...speaks the soul a slave. Instead of useful works, like Nature's, great, Enormous, cruel wonders crush'd the land; And round a tyrant's tomb -, who none deserved, For one vile carcass perish'd countless lives. Then the great Dragon 3 , couch'd amid his floods, Swell'd his fierce... | |
 | Herodotus - 1830 - 346 Seiten
...the Egyptian monarchs. Instead of useful works, like Nature, great, Enormous cruel wonders crush 'd the land, And round a tyrant's tomb, who none deserved, For one vile carcass perish'd countless lives- — Thomson. When we consider the religious prejudices of the Egyptians,... | |
 | James Ewing Cooley - 1843 - 668 Seiten
...both of them upon their death-beds commanded their servants to bury them in some obscure place."f " Instead of useful works, like nature, great, Enormous,...round a tyrant's tomb, who none deserved, For one vile carcass perished countless lives." Wilkinson, after pronouncing the pyramids of Ghizeh the oldest monuments... | |
 | Bartholomew Elliott George Warburton - 1845 - 552 Seiten
...be equalled by the profound ignorance of those who administer the laws. CHAPTER XXX. THE PYRAMIDS. Instead of useful works, like Nature great, Enormous, cruel wonders crushed the land. ANON. Upon the desert's edge, at last I lay, Before me rose, in wonderful array, Those works where... | |
 | John Wilson - 1847 - 598 Seiten
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 | Redmond Barry (Sir) - 1854 - 214 Seiten
...comfort and convenience of their subjects. Indeed, we may adopt the exclamation of the poet Thomson— " Instead of useful works, like nature ; great, Enormous,...round a tyrant's tomb, who none deserved, For one vile carcass, perish'd countless lives." —" Liberty." Byron also sarcastically observes— " What are... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1856 - 592 Seiten
...of the tyrant who raised it, was a direct tax upon the profitable labor of the rest of the people. "Instead of useful works, like nature great, Enormous cruel wonders crushed the land." But admitting that it is sometimes desirable for nations and governments to erect monuments which are... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1856 - 554 Seiten
...of the tyrant who raised it, was a direct tax upon the profitable labor of the rest of the people. " Instead of useful works, like nature great, Enormous cruel wonders crushed the land." But admitting that it is sometimes desirable for nations and governments to erect monuments which are... | |
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... of polished life, and human kind. But, when mysterious, superstition came, And, with her civil sister leagued, involved In studied darkness the desponding mind — Then tyrant power the righteous scourge unloosed : For yielded reason speaks the soul... 
