The Seven wonders of the world, with their associations in art and history (1878)
London ; New York : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 295
maritime power as is Britain, it necessarilyrequires on its iron-bound coast, numerous light-houses. The immense service rendered by these struc-tures to mariners need not here be detailed; andalthough they are not so perfectly arranged as we candesire, the British government has never been chary… … COLOSSUS AT RHODES. THE COLOSSUS OF P^HODES, HYMN OF APOLLO. The sleepless Hours who watch me as I lie,Curtaind with star-enwoven tapestries,From the broad moonlight of the sky, Fanning the busy dreams from my dim eyes,—Waken me when their mother, the gray dawn.Tells them that dreams and that the…
Seven Wonders of the World · Architecture, Ancient
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