 | Alexander William Kinglake - Middle East - 1864 - 348 pages
...Herodotus yesterday, and Warburton to-day — upon all and more this unworldly Sphynx has watched, and watched like a Providence with the same earnest eyes,...die, and Islam will wither away, and the Englishman straining far over to hold his loved India, will plant a firm foot on the banks of the Nile and sit... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Egypt - 1867 - 232 pages
...Herodotus yesterday, and Warburton to-day; — upon all and more this unworldly Sphinx has watched, and watched like a Providence with the same earnest eyes,...sad, tranquil mien. And we, we shall die, and Islam wither away; and the Englishman, straining far over to hold his loved India, will plant a firm foot... | |
 | Albert De Burton - Middle East - 1870 - 392 pages
...Herodotus yesterday and Warburton to-day ;— upon all and more, this unworldly sphinx has watched and watched, like a providence, with the same earnest eyes and the same sad. tranquil mien ; and we shall die, and Islam shall wither away, and still that sleepless rock will be watching and watching... | |
 | English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...Herodotus yesterday, Warburton to-day — upon all and more this unworldly Sphynx has watched, and watched like a Providence with the same earnest eyes,...die, and Islam will wither away, and the Englishman straining far over to hold his loved India, will plant a firm foot on the banks of the Nile, and sit... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1874 - 810 pages
...Herodotus yesterday, and Warburton to-day, — upon all and more this un; worldly Sphinx has watched, and watched like a Providence, with the same earnest eyes...die, and Islam will wither away, and the Englishman, straining far over to hold his loved India, will plant a firm foot on the banks of the Nile and sit... | |
 | William Pembroke Fetridge - Europe - 1874 - 688 pages
...Herodotus yesterday and Warburton to-day; upon all and more, this unworldly Sphinx has watched and watched, like a Providence, with the same earnest eyes and the same sad, tranquil mien ; and we shall die, and Islam shall wither away, and still that sleepless rock will lie watching and watching... | |
 | Readers - 1875 - 324 pages
...Herodotus yesterday, Warburton to-day — upon all and more this unworldly Sphinx has watched, and watched like a Providence with the same earnest eyes,...die, and Islam will wither away, and the Englishman, straining far over to hold his loved India, will plant a firm foot on the banks of the Nile, and sit... | |
 | Hugues Charles S. Cassal, Théodore Karcher - 1876 - 312 pages
...Herodotus yesterday, and Warburton to-day — upon all and more this unworldly Sphynx has watched, and watched like a Providence with the same earnest eyes,...we shall die, and Islam will wither away, and the Englishmen straining far over to hold his loved India, will plant a firm foot on the banks of the Nile,... | |
 | Richard Mayde - Egypt - 1876 - 132 pages
...pestilence, upon keen-eyed travellers ; — upon all, and more, this unworldly Sphinx has watched, and watched like a providence, with the same earnest eyes...sad, tranquil mien. And we, we shall die, and Islam wither away, and still that sleepless rock will lie watching and watching the works of the new busy... | |
 | Robert Brown - 1876 - 384 pages
...Herodotus yesterday, "VVarburton to-day — upon all and more the unworldly Sphinx has watched and watched like a Providence, with the same earnest eyes...sad, tranquil mien. And we, we shall die, and Islam wither away ; aud the Englishman, straining far over to hold his loved India, will plant a firm foot... | |
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India, will plant a firm foot on the banks of the Nile and sit in the seats of the Faithful, and still that sleepless rock will lie watching and watching the works of the new busy race, with those same sad earnest eyes, and the same tranquil mien everlasting. 
