..."Plymouth Folly;" to give some future poet of the Pacific shore a chance of saying with Shelley — "I met a traveller from an antique land Who said :...them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, . . . Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and...

..."Plymouth Folly;" to give some future poet of the Pacific shore a chance of saying with Shelley — "I met a traveller from an antique land Who said :...them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, . . . Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and...

...monuments do not provide an everlasting memorial. No one described that better than Percy Bysshe Shelley in Ozymandias: I met a traveller from an antique land...in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shatter 'd visage lies, whose frown And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command Tell that its sculptor...

...Rameses' many names, "Ozymandias": / met a traveler from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunk/ess legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them,...frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,...

...Science and Western Culture: The Issue of Time," History of European Ideas 3, no. 4 (1982): 371-401. 9. "I met a traveller from an antique land Who said:...frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,...

...monument, whose toppled colossi would later mock his presumption, inspiring Shelle's sonnet Ramses II I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two...frown, And wrinkled lip. and sneer of cold command Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,...

...soon as he saw it, Eliot started quoting one of Shelley's poems, 'Ozymandias', written about it. '/ met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two...frown And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things....

...treated as English words (for instance, tsar, Duma, oblasts, polpreds). OZYMANDIAS I MET a Traveler from an antique land, Who said, "Two vast and trunkless...frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,...

...His irony-laced meditation on the "ravages of time" may outlast the statue itself: I met a traveler from an antique land Who said: "Two vast and trunkless...frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,...

...civilizations buried under . . . nothing. In "Ozymandias," Shelley mocked their pretensions: . . . Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the...frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read . . . And on the pedestal these words appear: "My name...