 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - History - 1835 - 248 pages
...general subjects, as are prominently indicative of the scenes and intellectual influences of Italy. ROME. " The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless...withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago." " Yet, this is Rome, That sat upon her seven hills, and, from her throne Of beauty, ruPd the world... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 356 pages
...world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. LXXVI. LXXIX. The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Q) Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her wither'd hands, Whose holy dust was scatter'd long ago ; The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now; (2)... | |
 | Theology - 1839 - 536 pages
...Italy, the queen of Europe, the conqueress of the world. — The ' lone mother of dead empires,' " The Niobe of nations ! There she stands, Childless and crownless in her voiceless woe !" Time has been, that her senators were princes of the earth ; that pleading nations came to receive... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 982 pages
...she stands,(l) Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe; An empty urn within her wither'd bands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago; The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now ; (2) The very sepulchres lie tenantless Of their beroic dwellers : dost thou flow, Old Tiber! through... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1837 - 352 pages
...world is at our feet as fragile as our elay. Lxxvl. LxxIx. The Niohe of nations ! there she stands, l Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her wither'd hands, Whose holy dust was scatter'd long ago ; The Scipios' tomh contains no ashes now ;2... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 480 pages
...— A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. LXXIX. The Niobe of nations! there she stands,(1) Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe; An empty urn within her wither'd hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago; The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now; (2)... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1837 - 356 pages
...of enjoying the beauties of that poet — MOOBB. J LXX1X. The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, l Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her wither'd hands, Whose holy dust was scatter'd long ago ; The Scipios1 tomb contains no ashes now ;... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1839 - 1050 pages
...Italy, the queen of Europe, the conqueress of the world. — The ' lone mother of dead empires,' " The Niobe of nations ! There she stands, Childless and crownless in her voiceless woe !" Time has been, that her senators were princes of the earth ; that pleading nations came to receive... | |
 | Religion - 1839 - 542 pages
...Italy, the queen of Europe, the conqueress of the world. — The ' lone mother of dead empires,' " The Niobe of nations ! There she stands, Childless and crownless in her voiceless woe !" Time has been, that her senators were princes of the earth ; that -pleading nations came to receive... | |
 | Rembrandt Peale - American literature - 1839 - 276 pages
...and 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 and crownless, in her voiceless wo — * * * * * * The Goth, the Christian, Time, War, Flood, and Fire, Have dealt upon the seven-hilled... | |
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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... 
