 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1088 pagina’s
...King Cheops erected the first pyramid And largest, thinking it was just the thing To keep his memory 81R 1750 Let not a monument give you or me hopes, Since not a pinch of dust remains of Cheops. ccxx But... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1110 pagina’s
...King Cheops erected the first pyramid And largest, thinking it was just the thing To keep his memory his God must strive: xxxiv Or, it may be, with demons, who impair The strength of bette fid: 1750 Let not a monument give you or me hopes, Since not a pinch of dust remains of Cheops. ccxx... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1906 - 488 pagina’s
...King Cheops erected the first Pyramid And largest, thinking it was just the thing To keep his Memory whole, and Mummy hid, But Somebody or Other rummaging...Monument give you or me hopes, Since not a pinch of dust is left of Cheops ! l I have written to you several letters, some with additions, and some upon the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1907 - 486 pagina’s
...King Cheops erected the first Pyramid And largest, thinking it was just the thing To keep his Memory whole, and Mummy hid, But Somebody or Other rummaging...Let not a Monument give you or me hopes, Since not a piuch of dust is left of Cheops! 1 I have written to you several letters, some with additions, and... | |
 | University of Calcutta - 1912 - 746 pagina’s
...King Cheops erected the first pyramid .And largest, thinking it was just the thing To keep his memory whole, and mummy hid ; But somebody or other rummaging...coffin's lid : Let not a monument give you or me hopes ^ince not a pinch of dust remains of Cheops(tn) Thou Great Unknown ! * * * * Superlative Nil ! A vox... | |
 | George Horton - 1913 - 344 pagina’s
...represent a higher civilization, though if one is to believe Lord Byron, even pyramids are futile : "Let not a monument give you or me hopes, Since not a pinch of dust remains of Cheops. ' ' It is a capital of which any country might be proud : with its wide, clean streets, its white buildings... | |
 | Stephen Coleridge - 1916 - 242 pagina’s
...launched into the world of letters the grotesque style and invited it to accept such couplets as this : Let not a monument give you or me hopes Since not a pinch of dust remains of Cheops. or this : Forgetting each omission is a loss to The world, not quite so great as Ariosto. or, There's... | |
 | Olwen Ward Campbell - 1924 - 362 pagina’s
...King Cheops erected the first pyramid, And largest, thinking it was just the thing To keep his memory whole, and mummy hid ; But somebody or other, rummaging....hopes Since not a pinch of dust remains of Cheops." From being affected, he has become effective. And it was not only in Don Juan that Byron had learned... | |
 | John Dover Wilson - 1927 - 310 pagina’s
...King Cheops erected the first pyramid And largest, thinking it was just the thing To keep his memory whole, and mummy hid: But somebody or other rummaging,...hopes, Since not a pinch of dust remains of Cheops. 160 But I, being fond of true philosophy, Say very often to myself, "Alas! All things that have been... | |
 | Harold Nicolson - 1927 - 170 pagina’s
...doctrine of the blessed Trinity" ("Do not start, my dear Coleridge"), Byron at Venice was writing: Let not a monument give you or me hopes Since not a pinch of dust is left to Cheops. Both Byron and Arnold, in their respective manners, were extreme; and yet the vast... | |
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What are the hopes of man? Old Egypt's king Cheops erected the first pyramid, And largest, thinking it was just the thing To keep his memory whole, and mummy hid; But somebody or other, rummaging, Burglariously broke his coffin's lid: Let not a monument... 
