 | 1800 - 322 страници
...wrestle but in vain With all-subduing time; her cank'ring hand With calm, delib'rate malice wasteth them : Worn on the edge of days, the brass consumes, The busto moulders, and the deep-cut marble, Unsteady to the steei, gives up its charge. Ambition, half-convicted of her folly,... | |
 | Robert Blair - 1804 - 132 страници
...wrestle but in vain "With all-subduing Time; her can'krihg hand 'With calm deliberate malice wasteth them: Worn on the edge of days, the brass consumes,...the deep Cut marble, Unsteady to the steel, gives up its charge, Ambition, half convicted of her folly, Hangs down the head, and reddens at the tale* Here... | |
 | 1806 - 330 страници
...wrestle but in vain With all-subduing time; her cank'ring hand With calm, delib'rate malice wasteth them : Worn on the edge of days, the brass consumes, The busto moulders, and the deep-cut marble, Unsteady to the steel, gives up its charge. Ambition, half-convicted of her folly,... | |
 | Francis Collins - 1809 - 354 страници
...Roman Emperors, whose tottering vestiges loudly proclaim the transitory nature of human grandeur. " Worn on the edge of days, the brass consumes, " The...deep cut marble, " Unsteady to the steel, gives up its charge, " Ambition, half convicted ef her folly, angs down her head, and reddens at the tale."... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 страници
...vain With all-subduing Time ; her cant-'ring hand With calm deliberate malice wusteih them : BOOK I. thou, with that harsh grating tongua. Depreciate T>irds of warbling long Jeep-cut marble, Unsteady to the sleel, gives up its charge. Ambition, half convicted of her folly,... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 страници
...wrestle but in vain With all-subduing time; her cauk'ring hand With calm, delib'rate malice wasteth them : Worn on the edge of days, the brass consumes, The busto moulders, and the deep-cut marble. Unsteady to the steel, gives up its charge, Ambition, half-convicted of her folly,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 680 страници
...wTestle but in vain With all-subduing Time; her cank'ring hand With calm, ddib'rare malice wasteth them: Worn on the edge of days, the brass consumes, The busto moulders, anil the deep-cut marble, Unsteady to the steel, gives up its charge. Ambition, half convicted of her... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 страници
...wrestle, but in vain, With all-subduing time : his cauk'ring hand With calm delib'rate malice wasteth them : Worn on the edge of days the brass consumes, The busto moulders, and the deep-cut marble, Unsteady to the steel, gives up its charge. Ambition, half convicted of her folly,... | |
 | 1817 - 314 страници
...misshapen length of ruins. Sepulchral columns wrestle, but in vain, With all-subduing Time: her cankering hand With calm deliberate malice wastcth them : Worn...days the brass consumes, The busto moulders, and the deep-cut marble, Unsteady to the steel, gives up its charge. Ambition, half convicted of her folly,... | |
 | 1821 - 270 страници
...wrestle but in vain With all-subduing Time ; his cankering hand With calm deliberate malice wasteth them : Worn on the edge of days, the brass consumes, The busto moulders, and the deep-cut marble, Unsteady to the steel, gives up its charge. Ambition, half-convicted of her folly,... | |
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Time: her cankering hand With calm deliberate malice wasteth them: Worn on the edge of days, the brass consumes, The busto moulders, and the deep-cut marble, Unsteady to the steel, gives up its charge. 
