 | Eustace Alfred Reynolds-Ball - Cairo (Egypt) - 1897 - 408 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,...die, and Islam will wither away; and the Englishman, straining forever to hold his loved India, will plant a firm foot on the banks of the Nile, and sit... | |
 | Joseph Pollard - Cairo (Egypt) - 1898 - 530 pages
...Empire — upon battle and pestilence . . . 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 . . . will plant a firm foot on the banks of the Nile, and sit in the seats of the Faithful and still... | |
 | James Carlile McCoan - Egypt - 1900 - 474 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,...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... | |
 | Success - 1902 - 532 pages
...travelers—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,...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... | |
 | James Carlile McCoan, Wilfred C. Lay - Egypt - 1902 - 494 pages
...— Herodotus yesterday, Warburton today — 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... | |
 | Robert D. Blackman - American literature - 1904 - 1196 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,...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... | |
 | Readers, American - 1905 - 474 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,...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... | |
 | 1905 - 712 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...die, and Islam will wither away, and the Englishman, straining forever to hold his loved India, will plant a firm foot on the banks of the Nile and sit... | |
 | Alexander William Kinglake - Middle East - 1906 - 342 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... | |
 | Albert Stratford George Canning - Civilization, Ancient - 1907 - 306 pages
...Empire — upon battle and pestilence . . . 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 linn foot on the banks of the Nile and sit... | |
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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. 
