 | 1828 - 454 pages
...labours closed ; Slime the materials, but the slime was turn'd To adamant by their petrific touch; Frail were their frames, ephemeral their lives, Their...to carry on the process, Which out of water brought for;h solid rock. • • • •• • • • " Compared with this amazing edifice, Raised by the... | |
 | James Montgomery - English poetry - 1827 - 296 pages
...labours closed : Slime the material, but the slime was turn'd To adamant, by their petrific touch ; c 2 Frail were their frames, ephemeral their lives, Their...carry on the process, Which out of water brought forth solid rock. Atom by atom thus the burthen grew, Even like an infant in the womb, till Tune Deliver'd... | |
 | Asia - 1827 - 864 pages
...labours closed : Slime the material, but the slime was turn'd To adamant, by their pétrifie touch ; Frail were their frames, ephemeral their lives, Their...carry on the process, Which out of water brought forth solid rock. The comparison instituted between the labours of these minute architects and the wonders... | |
 | Scotland - 1827 - 808 pages
...labours closed : Slime the material, but the slime was turn -I To adamant, by their pétrifie touch ; Frail were their frames, ephemeral their lives. Their masonry imperishable. All Life's needful function*, food, exertion, rest, By nice economy of Piovidenee Were overruled to carry on the process.... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1828 - 924 pages
...their labours clos'd : Slime the material, but the slime was turn'd To adamant by their petrific touch; Frail were their frames, ephemeral their lives, Their...carry on the process, Which out of water brought forth solid rock. — Atom by atom, thus the burthen grew," &c. This is but a brief specimen of one of the... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1829 - 520 pages
...was turn'd To adamant, by their pétrifie touch; Frail were their frames, ephemeral llieir live», Their masonry imperishable. All Life's needful functions,...carry on the process, Which out of water brought forth solid rock. Atom by atom thus the burthen grew, Even like an infant in the womb, till Time Deliver'... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 514 pages
...labors closed : Slime the material, but the ulime was tura'd To adamant, by their pétrifie touch ; Frail were their frames, ephemeral their lives, Their...carry on the process, Which out of water brought forth solid rock. Atom by atom thus the burthen grew, Even like an infant in the womb, till Time Delrver'd... | |
 | Asia - 1827 - 822 pages
...their petrific touch ; Frail were their frames, ephemeral their lives, Their masonry imperisliahle. All Life's needful functions, food, exertion, rest,...carry on the process, Which out of water brought forth solid rock. 1'he comparison instituted between the labours of these minute architects and the wonders... | |
 | English poetry - 1836 - 514 pages
...touch ; Frail were Iheir frames, ephemeral their lives, Tlieir masonry imperishable. All i .ill '- needful functions, food, exertion, rest, By nice economy of Providence Were overruled to cany on the process, Which out of water brought forth solid rock. Alom by ntom thus the burthen grew,... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - Geology - 1838 - 372 pages
...labours closed ; Slime the material, but the sliine was turned To adamant by their petrific touch. Frail were their frames, ephemeral their lives, Their...carry on the process Which out of water brought forth solid rock. Atom by atom, thus the mountain grew A coral island, stretching east and west ; Steep were... | |
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To adamant, by their petrific touch; Frail were their frames, ephemeral their lives, Their masonry imperishable. All Life's needful functions, food, exertion, rest, By nice economy of Providence Were overruled to carry on the process, Which out of water... 
