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... A wreck, yet shall its fragments reassemble, And build themselves impregnably In a diviner clime, To Amphionic music on some cape sublime Which frowns above the idle foam ...

— Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle • H. N. Brailsford

... confesse these apprehensions do plainly oppose what heretofore I have conceived; but I have sworn more faithfull friendship with Truth then with myself. And therefore without all remorse lay batterie against mine own edifice: not sparing to shew how weak that is, that my self now deems not impregnably strong. I have at the latter end of the last Canto of Psychathanasia, not without triumph concluded, that the world hath not continued ab aeterno, ...

— Democritus Platonissans • Henry More

... wreck, yet shall its fragments re-assemble, And build themselves again impregnably In a diviner clime, To Amphionic music, on some cape sublime Which frowns above the idle ...

— Winds Of Doctrine - Studies in Contemporary Opinion • George Santayana

... The unborn and the undying. Earth and ocean, Space, and the isles of life or light that gem 770 The sapphire floods of interstellar air, This firmament pavilioned upon chaos, With all its cressets of immortal fire, Whose outwall, bastioned impregnably Against the escape of boldest thoughts, repels them 775 As Calpe the Atlantic clouds—this Whole Of suns, and worlds, and men, and beasts, and flowers, With all the silent or tempestuous workings By which they have been, ...

— The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume I • Percy Bysshe Shelley

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