 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1882 - 430 Seiten
...the poet or the painter ; and as Mason has beautifully described the change, — ' Time Has mouldered into beauty many a tower, Which, when it frowned with all its battlements, Was only terrible ' *' The monastery, too, which was at first but a fantastic monument of the superstitious devotion... | |
 | James Fawckner Nicholls - 1885 - 202 Seiten
...being just two miles and a half. WALKS FOR THE ARCH/EOLOGIST. " TIME'S gradual touch Has moulder'd into beauty many a tower, Which when it frowned with all its battlements Was only terrible." }AY a passing visit to gUl $aitttiS' fhttWh ,- two of the early Anglo-Norman pillars remain at the... | |
 | James John Hissey - 1887 - 466 Seiten
...the drawbridge. Impressive all this, but no longer warlike or to be dreaded, for Time's gradual touch Has moulded into beauty many a tower Which, when it...frowned with all its battlements, Was only terrible. As we stood before this grand old gateway and guarding towers, with their crossbow loopholes, so eloquent... | |
 | P. Garrett - 1888 - 952 Seiten
...actions are the substance of life, and good sayings the ornament of it. Time's gradual touch Has molded into beauty many a tower Which when it frowned with all its battlements, Was only terrible. Mason. Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 Seiten
...us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer. — Burke. Time's gradual touch has mouldered into beauty many a tower, which when it frowned with all its battlements was only terrible. — Mason. I do by no means advise you to throw away your time in ransacking, like a dull antiquarian,... | |
 | 1897 - 308 Seiten
...Cornwall. Life, however short, is still made shorter by waste of time. — Johnson. Time's gradual touch has moulded into beauty many a tower, which when it...frowned with all its battlements was only terrible. — Mason. A pebble cast in ocean's farthest deep Impels the wave to its remotest shore ; The wid'ning... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1900 - 562 Seiten
...for the poet or the painter ; and as Mason has beautifully described the change, Time Has mouldered into beauty many a tower, Which, when it frowned with all its battlement*, Was only terrible. The monastery, too, which was at first but a fantastic monument of... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 860 Seiten
...once had roused our hatred. But to Time, Not her, the praise is due : his gradual touch Has mouldered . Now owns in tears the punishment was just. But how had all his fortunes felt a wrack Had ; and many a fane Monastic, which, when decked with all its spires, Served but to feed some pampered... | |
 | Phineas Garrett - 1904 - 896 Seiten
...again, and blew the dust From the worn features and disfigured limb. Laniior. Time's gradual touch has moulded into beauty many a tower, which when it...frowned with all its battlements was only terrible. Mason. The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has... | |
 | Phineas Garrett - 1904 - 890 Seiten
...up again, and blew the dust From the worn features and disfigured limb. Landor. Time's gradual touch has moulded into beauty many a tower, which when it...frowned with all its battlements was only terrible. Mason. The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has... | |
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