| Eliot Warburton - Egypt - 1845 - 556 pages
...the island to the Knights Hospitallers when they were dispossessed of Rhodes. CHAPTER V. ALEXANDRIA. Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days ? Thou lookest trom thy towers to-day : yet a few years, and the blast of the desert comes, it howls in thy empty... | |
| Bartholomew Elliott George Warburton - Egypt - 1845 - 552 pages
...the island to the Knights Hospitallers when they were dispossessed of Rhodes. CHAPTER V. ALEXANDRIA. Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days ? Thou lookett irom thy towers to-day : yet a few years, and the blast of the desert comea, it howls in thy... | |
| Bards and bardism - 1847 - 398 pages
...the dwelling of Moina, silence is in the house of her fathers. Raise the song of mourning, O bards! over the land of strangers. They have but fallen before...for one day we must fall. Why dost thou build the ball, son of the winged days? Thou lookest from thy towers to-day : yet a few years, and the blast... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 pages
...out the spot ; By that remcmber'd, or with that forgot. 1303 ON LEAVING NEWSTEAD ABBEY. 2 " Whjr do*t er hostile , tower to-day : yet n Tew year*, and the :•! it or the desert comes. It how'U in thy empty court."... | |
| Methodist Episcopal Church - 1847 - 454 pages
...GRAVE. "WHY," says Ossian, " shouldst thou build thy hall, KI»I <tt' the winged days? Thou lockest from thy towers to-day: yet a few years, and the blast of ihr desert comes: it howls in the empty court, and whistles around thy half-worn shield." The thought... | |
| Eliot Warburton - Egypt - 1848 - 376 pages
...sacrifice of the most venerable of all illusions." — Denon. CHAPTER III. ALEXANDRIA. Why dost thon boild the hall , son of the winged days ? Thou lookest from...the blast of the desert comes, it howls in thy empty courts. — OSSIAN. Towards evening, on the 18th day since leaving England, the low land of Egypt was... | |
| Catherine Sinclair - Wales - 1848 - 478 pages
...events, which they witnessed formerly, when patriots fought and bled in those deserted chambers; — " Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days? Thou lookest from thy tower to-day; yet a few years, and the blast of the desert howls in thy empty courts." From Llandovery... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...silence is in the house of her fathers. Raise the song of mourning, 0 bards ! over the land of itnmgen. ntly, singly, down, down, down they WCLÏ, юп of the winged daysî Thou lookest from thy towers to-day : yet a few years, and the blast of the... | |
| Bartholomew Elliott George Warburton - Egypt - 1852 - 650 pages
..."When we saw a small boat carry at her stern the 24 ALEXANDBIA. CHAPTER in. ALEXANDRIA. Why dost thoa build the hall, son of the winged days? Thou lookest...blast of the desert comes , it howls in thy empty courts. — OSSIAN. Towards evening, on the 18th day since leaving England, the low land of Egypt was... | |
| Du Rieux - 1852 - 290 pages
...Aa-rfjp Trplv /j.ev e\afvrre<: evl tfoolffiv ewo?. LAERTIUS. 'Aet, Säet fj.e<j)ev<yei. ANACRKON. " Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days ? Thou lookest from thy tower to day : — Yet a few years, and the blast of the desert comes, it howls in thy empty court... | |
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