 | 1828 - 454 pagina’s
...architects, Still dying upwards as their labours closed ; Slime the materials, but the slime was turn'd To adamant by their petrific touch; Frail were their...to carry on the process, Which out of water brought for;h solid rock. • • • •• • • • " Compared with this amazing edifice, Raised by the... | |
 | 1827 - 864 pagina’s
...their labours closed : Slime the material, but the slime was turn'd To adamant, by their pétrifie touch ; Frail were their frames, ephemeral their lives,...process, Which out of water brought forth solid rock. The comparison instituted between the labours of these minute architects and the wonders of Babylon... | |
 | 1827 - 808 pagina’s
...their labours closed : Slime the material, but the slime was turn -I To adamant, by their pétrifie touch ; Frail were their frames, ephemeral their lives. Their masonry imperishable. All Life's needful function*, food, exertion, rest, By nice economy of Piovidenee Were overruled to carry on the process.... | |
 | 1827 - 822 pagina’s
...architects, Still dying upwards as their labours closed : Slime the material, but the slime was turn'd To adamant, by their petrific touch ; Frail were their frames, ephemeral their lives, Their masonry imperisliahle. All Life's needful functions, food, exertion, rest, By nice economy of Providence Were... | |
 | 1833 - 270 pagina’s
...architects, Still dying upwards as their labours closed : Slime the material ; but the slime was turu'd To adamant by their petrific touch ; Frail were their...ephemeral their lives, Their masonry imperishable. ***** ******** A point at first, It peer'd above those waves a point so small, I just perceived it... | |
 | 1836 - 514 pagina’s
...touch ; Frail were Iheir frames, ephemeral their lives, Tlieir masonry imperishable. All i .ill '- needful functions, food, exertion, rest, By nice economy of Providence Were overruled to cany on the process, Which out of water brought forth solid rock. Alom by ntom thus the burthen grew,... | |
 | 1839 - 428 pagina’s
...of its architects, Still dying upwards as their labours closed : Slime the material; but the slime was turned To adamant by their petrific touch ; Frail...ephemeral their lives, Their masonry imperishable. A point at first, It peered above those waves a point so small, I just perceived it fixed where all... | |
 | 1845 - 558 pagina’s
...their labours closed. Slime the material, — but the slime was turn'd To adamant by their pétrifie touch,— Frail were their frames — ephemeral their...process, Which out of water brought forth solid rock " • • • * " A coral island, stretching east and west, In God'e own language, to its parent saying,... | |
 | 398 pagina’s
...architects, Still dying upwards as their labours closed ; Slime the material, but the slime was turu'd To adamant, by their petrific touch ; Frail were their frames, ephemeral their lires, Their masonry imperishable. All Life's needful functions, food, exertion, rest. By nice economy... | |
 | William Samuel Symonds - 1855 - 178 pagina’s
...architects, Still dying upwards as their labours clos'd, Slime the materials ; but the slime was turn'd To adamant by their petrific touch. Frail were their...ephemeral their lives ; Their masonry imperishable." Montgomery's " Pelican Island." Some important discoveries have been made by Mr. Charles Darwin on... | |
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... rearing A new creation in the secret deep. Omnipotence wrought in them, with them, by them; Hence what Omnipotence alone could do Worms did. I saw the living pile ascend, The mausoleum of its architects, Still dying upwards as their labours closed... 
