 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...fence of stone, Such as an army's baffled strength delays, Standing with half its battlements alone, And with two thousand years of ivy grown, The garland...tower of strength ? within its cave What treasure by so lock'd, so hid 1 — A woman's grave. But who was she, the lady of the dead, Tomb'd in a palace<!... | |
 | G. A. Perdicaris - Greece - 1845 - 336 pages
...baffled strength delays, Standing with half its battlements alone, And with two thousand years of laurel grown, The garland of eternity ; where wave The green leaves over all by time o'erthrown.' The ruins of Messene, unlike the remains of Tyrinth and Mycenae, are, comparatively speaking, of modern... | |
 | Hugh Swinton Legaré - Attorneys general - 1845 - 606 pages
...same kind of extravagance. He is speaking of a tower — "Standing with half its battlements alone, And with two thousand years of ivy grown, The garland of eternity, &c. Canto IV. 99. Again — "Admire, exult — despise — laugh, weep, — for here There is such... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 1068 pages
...fence of stone, Such as an army's baffled strength delays, Standing with half its battlements alone, And with two thousand years of ivy grown, The garland...of strength ? within its cave What treasure lay so lock'd, so hid?— A woman's grave. i ' <r. ABudine 10 ibe lamb of Cecilia Melena, called Capo dl Bove.... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 848 pages
...fence of stone, Such as ал nrmy's baffled strength delays, Standing with half its battlements alone, And with two thousand years of ivy grown, The garland...of strength? within its cave What treasure lay so lock'd, so hid ? — A woman's grave. C. But who was she, the lady of the dead, Tumb'd in a palace?... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...fence of stone, Such as an army's baffled strength delays, Standing with half its battlements alone, And with two thousand years of ivy grown, The garland...time o'erthrown ; — What was this tower of strength 1 within its cave What treasure lay so lock'd, so hid ? — A woman's grave. Dut who was she, the lady... | |
 | William Ingraham Kip - Rome (Italy) - 1846 - 478 pages
...the Middle Ages, covered with rank vegetation, the wild vines trailing around them, or sometimes " with two thousand years of ivy grown The garland of...wave The green leaves over all by time o'erthrown." We first stopped at one of those to which Cicero refers — the tomb of the Scipios. It is in a vineyard... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 pages
...army's baffled strength delays, Standing with half its battlements alone, And with two thousand yean , 4 , lock'd, so hid ? — A woman's grave. a But who was she, the lady of the dead, Tomb'd in a palace ?... | |
 | Arminianism - 1847 - 672 pages
...of the middle ages, covered with rank vegetation, the wild vines trailing around them, or sometimes "with two thousand years of ivy grown, The garland...wave The green leaves over all by time o'erthrown." We first stopped at one of those to which Cicero refers, the tomb of the Scipios. It is in a vineyard... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - Architecture - 1848 - 512 pages
...fence of stone, Such as an army's baffled strength delays, Standing with half its battlements alone, And with two thousand years of ivy grown, The garland...its cave What treasure lay so locked, so hid ? — A woman's grave. — "-Thus much alone we know — Metella died, The wealthiest Roman's wife ; behold... | |
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There is a stern round tower of other days, Firm as a fortress, with its fence of stone. Such as an army's baffled strength delays, Standing with half its battlements alone, And with two thousand years of ivy grown, The garland of eternity, where wave... 
