| 1827 - 698 pages
...the bottom of the ocean become a fertile soil ; whole races of animals become extinct, and the bone* and exuviae of one class covered with the remains of another ; and upon those graves of past generations, the marble or rocky tombs, as it were, of a former animated world,... | |
| 1829 - 512 pages
...the genius of artists, and power and riches of nations now past away , with how much deeper feelings of admiration must we consider those grand monuments...graves of past generations — the marble or rocky tomh, as it were, of a former animated world — new generations rising, and order and harmony established,... | |
| Samuel Felton - 1830 - 270 pages
...fragments of Greek sculpture in the Acropolis of Athens, or in our own Museum, as proofs of the genius of artists, and power and riches of nations now past...harmony established, and a system of life and beauty pro107 JACOB BOBART, the elder, is an admirable portrait, by D. Loggan, taken at his age of eighty-one,... | |
| 1832 - 524 pages
...fragments of Greek sculpture in the Acropolis of Athens, or in our own Museum, as proofs of the genius of artists, and power and riches of nations now past...established, and a system of life and beauty produced, as it were, out of chaos and death ; proving the infinite power, wisdom and goodness of the ' Great... | |
| 1832 - 440 pages
...continents broken into islands ; one land produced, another destroyed ; the bottom of the ocean becomes a fertile soil; whole races of animals extinct, and...graves of past generations — the marble or rocky tombs, as it were of a former animated world— new generations arising, and order and harmony established... | |
| 1832 - 526 pages
...produced, another destroyed ; the bottom of the ocean become a fertile soilwhole races of animals extinct j and the bones and exuviae of one class covered with...graves of past generations— the marble or rocky tomh, as it were, ofa former animated world — new generations rising, and order and harmon; established,... | |
| 1833 - 310 pages
...bottom of the ocean become a fertile soil ; whole races of animals extinct ; and the bones and exuviffi of one class, covered with the remains of another,...upon the graves of past generations — the marble, a rocky tomb, as it were, of a former animated world — new generations rising, and order and harmony... | |
| Thomas Staunton St. Clair - 1834 - 412 pages
...continents broken into islands ; one land produced, another destroyed ; the bottom of the ocean become fertile soil ; whole races of animals extinct, and...and, upon the graves of past generations, the marble, a rocky tomb, as it were, of a former animated world ; new generations rising, and order and harmony... | |
| William Evans Burton, Edgar Allan Poe - 1840 - 616 pages
...bottom of the ocean become a fertile soil ; whole races of animals extinct, and the hones and exuvia of one class covered with the remains of another ;...graves of past generations — the marble or rocky tombs, as it were, of a former animated world — new generations arising, and order and harmony established;... | |
| 1840 - 326 pages
...bottom of the ocean become a fertile soil ; whole races of animals extinct, and the bones and exuvia of one class covered with the remains of another ;...graves of past generations — the marble or rocky tombs, as it were, of a former animated world — new generations arising, and order and harmony established... | |
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