 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1819 - 240 pages
...midnight taper," To have, when the original is dust, A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust. CCXIX. What are the hopes of man ? old Egypt's King Cheops...hopes, Since not a pinch of dust remains of Cheops. ccxx. But I being fond of true philosophy, Say very often to myself, " Alas! " All things that have... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1819 - 242 pages
...their " midnight taper," To have, when the original is dust, A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust What are the hopes of man ? old Egypt's King Cheops...his coffin's lid : Let not a monument give you or mft hopes, Since not a pinch of dust remains of Cheops. CCXIX. But I being fond of true philosophy,... | |
 | 1819 - 608 pages
..." midnight taper," To have, when the original is dust, A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust. What are the hopes of man ? old Egypt's King Cheops...just the thing To keep his memory whole, and mummy bid ; Bot somebody or other rumaging, Burglariously broke his coffin's lid : l«t not a monument give... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1819 - 572 pages
..." midnight taper," To have, when the original is dust, A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust. Let not a monument give you or me hopes, Since not a pinch of dust remains of Cheops. * But I, being fond of true philosophy, Say very often to myself, " Alas ! AH things that have been... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English literature - 1821 - 486 pages
...midnight taper, » To have, when the original is dust, A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust. CCXIX. What are the hopes of man ? old Egypt's King Cheops...hopes Since not a pinch of dust remains of Cheops, i CCXX. But I, being fond of true philosophy, Say very often to myself, « Alas ! « All things that... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1821 - 460 pages
...du$t, A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust. ccxrx; What are the hopes of man? old,Egypt's lying Cheops erected the first pyramid And largest, thinking...was just the thing To keep his .memory whole, and nmmmy hid; But Somebody or other rummaging, Burglariously broke his coffin's lid : Let not a monument... | |
 | 1821 - 456 pages
...mingling with the dust of its inhabitant, he would have been disappointed, and we exclaim with the Poet, " Let not a monument give you or me hopes, Since not a pinch of dust remains of Cheops." 'Yet we say again, this is not the case here : the history of the man whose bones lie beneath is familiar... | |
 | 1820 - 696 pages
...mingling with the dust of its inhabitant, he would have been disappointed, and we exclaim with the Poet, " Let not a monument give you or me hopes, Since not a piucb of dust remains of Cheops." Yet we say again, this is not the case here : the history of the... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1822 - 426 pages
...midnight taper, » To have, when the original is dust, A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust. CCXIX. What are the hopes of man ? old Egypt's King Cheops...hopes, Since not a pinch of dust remains of Cheops. CCXX. But I, being fond of true philosophv, Say very often to myself, « Alas ! « All things that... | |
 | Walter Blunt, Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1822 - 504 pages
...mingling with the dust of its inhabitant, he would have been disappointed, and we exclaim with the Poet, " Let not a monument give you or me hopes, Since not a pinch of oust remains of Cheops." Yet we say again, that is not the case here: the history of the man whose... | |
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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... 
