 Its thunder-splintered pinnacle; Round many an insulated mass, The native bulwarks of the pass, Huge as the tower which builders vain Presumptuous piled on Shinar's plain. The rocky summits, split and rent, Formed turret, dome, or battlement, Or seemed...  The Naturalist - Page 141857Full view - About this book
 | Walter Scott - Arthurian legend - 1810 - 454 pages
...bulwarks of the pass, Huge as the tower which builders vain Presumptuous piled on Shinar's plain. Their rocky summits, split and rent, Formed turret, dome,...With cupola or minaret, Wild crests as pagod ever decked, Or mosque of eastern architect. Nor were these earth-born castles bare, Nor lacked they many... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 444 pages
...bulwarks of the pass, Huge as the tower which builders vain Presumptuous piled on Shinar's plain. Their rocky summits, split and rent, Formed turret, dome,...With cupola or minaret, Wild crests as pagod ever decked, Or mosque of eastern architect. Nor were these earth-born castles bare, Nor lacked they many... | |
 | Religion - 1811 - 872 pages
...bulwarks of tlic país, Hage as the lower which builders vain Presumptuous piled on Sbinar's plain. Their rocky summits, split and rent. Formed turret, dome,...fantastically set With cupola or minaret, Wild crests as pngod ever decked. Or mosque of eastern architect. Nor were these earth-born castles bare, Nor lacked... | |
 | 1811 - 868 pages
...bulwarks of the pass. Huge as the lower which builders van Presumptuous piled on Sbiam's plain. Their rocky summits, split and rent. Formed turret, dome, or battlement, Or seemed fantastically .«et With cupola or minaret. Wild crests as pagod ever decked. Or mosque of eastern architect. Nor... | |
 | Sir William Jackson Hooker - Botany - 1813 - 496 pages
...picture to itself a heap of vast 'and ruined towers, placed upon the top of a sloping bank, " Whose rocky summits, split and rent, " Formed turret, dome,...With cupola or minaret. " Wild crests as pagod ever decked, " Or mosque of eastern architect." The dreary solitude, and the storms and snow of Farit, did... | |
 | James Justinian Morier - Armenia - 1816 - 454 pages
...churches and castles. Their rocky summits, split and rent, Form'd turret, dome, and battlement, Or seem'd fantastically set With cupola or minaret, Wild crests as pagod ever deck'd, Or mosque of eastern architect. , Lady of the Lake, Canto I. xi. One piece of land in particular, forming... | |
 | 1817 - 292 pages
...bulwarks of the pass, The rocky summits, split and rent, Form'd turret, dome, or battlement, Or secm'd fantastically set With cupola or minaret. Wild crests as pagod ever deck'd, Or mosque of eastern architect." Lady of the Lake, Canto lit. We were now on classic ground : we ascended... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1818 - 410 pages
...Presumptuous piled on Shinar's plain. Their rocky summits, split and rent, Formed turret, dome, or hattlement, Or seemed fantastically set With cupola or minaret, Wild crests as pagod ever decked, Or mosque of eastern architect. Nor were these earth-horn castles har Nor lacked they many... | |
 | James Duncan - Roads - 1820 - 250 pages
...native bulwarks of the pass, Huge as the tower which builders vain Presumptuous piled on Shinar's plain; The rocky summits, split and rent; Formed turret,...With cupola, or minaret, Wild crests as pagod ever decked, Or mosque of eastern architect. Nor were these earth-born castles bare, Nor lacked they many... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 282 pages
...on Shinar's plain. The rocky summits, split and rent, Form'd turret, dome, or battlement, Or seem'd fantastically set With cupola or minaret, Wild crests as pagod ever deck'd, Or mosque of eastern architect. Nor were these earth-born castles bare, Nor lack'd they many a banner... | |
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