If you doe this There is an Arme Armipotent that can fling you Into a base grave, and your Pallaces With Lightning strike and of their Ruines make A Tombe for you, unpitied and abhorr'd.
I come to knit the nerves of your lost strength, To build your ruines up, to set you free From this your voluntary banishment, And give new being to your murd'red fame.
We stayed at Bethlem that night, and the next day we went from thence to the mountaines of Iudea, which are about eight miles from Ierusalem, where are the ruines of an olde monasterie.
O, a loss of losses; Our lives, and ruines of our families, The utter being nothing of our names, Were nothing near it.
That this wall was of stone also, the ruines therof (which haue ministred much matter to such as dwell néere therevnto in their buildings) is triall sufficient.
Wherfore I hold with them, which make Westminster to be the place where Lucius builded his church vpon the ruines of that Flamine 264.
Leland supposeth the ruines that are found therein to haue béene of an old priorie sometimes called Lille, which was a cell belonging to the monasterie [Sidenote: Londy.
Certes I will not saie whether these were set into the places where they now stand by the gentiles, or brought thither from other ruines of the towne it selfe, and placed afterward in those wals, in their necessarie reparations.
Lord, curse Edom's traiterous kinde, Beare in minde In our ruines how they revell'd.
The sonnes of Day he favoureth, I see, And by myruines thinkes to make them great: To make one great by others losse, is bad excheat.
Mother Hubberds Tale, Tears of 1591 Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors, the Muses, Ruines of Time, Henry VI.
And when thy ruines shall disclame To be the treas'rer of his name, His name, that cannot fade, shall bee An everlasting monument to thee.
Atlas of photographs in his Cités et Ruines Américaines, a part of which volume consists of the architectural speculations of Viollet le Duc.
A passage in the Ruines of Time (see the lines beginning 'O grief of griefs!
The sonnes of Day he fauoureth, I see, 8 And by my ruines thinkes to make them great: To make one great by others losse, is bad excheat.
This so amazed our men that stood in the breach, not knowing from whence that terror came, as they forsooke their Commanders, and left them among the ruines of the mine.
The towne is nowe againe somewhat repaired, but in effect there remaine but the ruinesof the former Towne.
Do we not see that avarice heaping up millions for the nurture and support of foreign dominions on the ruines of that country that grants them?
If they would reflect (when they talk of French influence) that they seek protection from a German Usurper, who is hourly aggrandizing himself and raising his foreign dominions upon the ruines of the deluded people of England.
My country bleeds, and in itsruines lie Thousands.
And AEther seems but one continued flame; Clouds dash'd on clouds with utmost fury rend, And on the drowned earth their watery ruines send.
But much of Gods justice, & mans folly will at length be discovered, through all the filmes and pretentions of Religion, in which Polititians wrap up their designes: in vaine do men hope to build their Piety on the Ruines of loyalty.
And suddenly a great number of the Turkes skipping vpon the ruines thereof, displayed their Ensignes, euen to the toppe of the same.
Raise from his ruines once more this sunk Cedar, That all may fear thy power, and I proclaim it.
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