Crossword-Solution: BABYLONS 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

Our towns are copied fragments from our breast; And all man’s Babylons strive but to impart The grandeurs of his Babylonian heart.

These words, which were spoken in a joking tone, contrasted so sadly with the mutilated features of his once handsome friend, that Darius wept, and when at last the almost impregnable fortress was really won by Zopyrus' stratagem, he exclaimed: "I would give a hundred Babylons, if my Zopyrus had not thus mutilated himself." He then appointed his friend lord of the giant city, gave him its entire revenues, and honored him every year with the rarest presents.

These words, which were spoken in a joking tone, contrasted so sadly with the mutilated features of his once handsome friend, that Darius wept, and when at last the almost impregnable fortress was really won by Zopyrus’ stratagem, he exclaimed: “I would give a hundred Babylons, if my Zopyrus had not thus mutilated himself.” He then appointed his friend lord of the giant city, gave him its entire revenues, and honored him every year with the rarest presents.

The remains of their cities--the Ninevehs and Babylons of the New World-- lie buried in the tropical jungle, where Europeans first saw them, four hundred years ago.

The world would be covered with huge and densely-peopled excrescences--with Babylons, Romes, and Londons--in which wealth, power, and corruption were securely and permanently intrenched, and from which the human race would ne'er diverge but under the pressure of absolute impossibility to wrench a subsistence from their over-peopled vicinities.