Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped... Job the Silent: A Study in Historical Counterpoint - Page 60by Bruce Zuckerman - 1998 - 305 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...pedestal these words appear : " My name is Ozyrnamlias, king of kings : Look on my works, ye Mighty, nnd k l Q hare The lone and level modi stretch far away. Y г hasten to the dead ! What seek ye there, Vf restless... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1834 - 888 pages
...thy spells did hind To fear himself, and lore all buman kind. SONNET.-OZYMANDIAS. I MET a traveller from an antique land Who said : Two vast and trunkless...Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and hare The lone and level sands stretch far away. VERSES ADDRESSED TO THE NOBLE AND UNFORTUNATE LADY... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1838 - 1070 pages
...awhile, and return to the Montauk, to give an account of what occurred on board that ship. CHAPTER IX. Nothing beside remains ! Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away. SHELLEY. As Captain Truck was so fully aware of the importance of... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - Poets, English - 1840 - 396 pages
...Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart thatfed ; And on the pedestal these words appear : " My name...that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away. ON FG HER voice did quiver as we parted, Yet knew I not that heart... | |
| William Alexander Mackinnon - Civilization - 1846 - 444 pages
...pedestal these words appear : — ' MY NAME IS OZTMANDIAS, KlNG OP KlNGS : LOOK ON MY WORKS, YE MlGHTY, AND DESPAIR ! ' Nothing beside remains. Round the...that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away." From every investigation we can make respecting ancient Egypt, under... | |
| 412 pages
...Mv NAME IS OZYMANDIAS, KI.NO OF KINGS, LOOK ON MY WORKS, YE MIGHTV, AN1> DESPAIR!" Nothing besides remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The loae and level sands stretch far away. — Slutiq/. . THE MINES AND MINERAL WEALTH OF SCOTLAND. By... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1847 - 638 pages
...is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair !" Nothing beside remain!!. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level aands stretch far away. Yi hasten to the dead ! What seek ye there, Of the idle brain, which... | |
| John Keats - Poets, English - 1848 - 420 pages
...well those passions read, Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things, The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed ; And on the pedestal...that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away. PBS HAMPSTEAD, February 21, [1818 ] MY DEAR BROTHERS, I am extremely... | |
| Richard Monckton Milnes (1st baron Houghton.) - 1848 - 328 pages
...that fed ; And on the pedestal these words appear : — " My name is Ozymandias, King of Kiugs : Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair ! " Nothing beside...that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away. PBS HAHPSTEAD, February 21, [1818.] MY DEAB BROTHERS, I am extremely... | |
| Seven wonders - Architecture, Ancient - 1854 - 384 pages
...that fed : And on the pedestal these words appear : "My name is Oxymandius, King of Kings ; . Look on my works ye mighty, and despair !" Nothing beside...decay Of that colossal wreck boundless and bare The loose and level sands stretch far away.' " — SHELLEY. In the remains of the large edifice called... | |
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