 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1810 - 468 pages
...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....decked, Or mosque of eastern architect. Nor were these earth-born castles bare, Nor lacked they many a banner fair ; For, from their shivered brows displayed,... | |
 | 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,...decked, Or mosque of eastern architect. Nor were these earth-born castles bare, Nor lacked they many a banner fair ; • For, from their shivered brows displayed,... | |
 | 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,...decked, Or mosque of eastern architect. Nor were these earth-born castles bare, Nor lacked they many a banner fair ; For, from their shivered brows displayed,... | |
 | 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,...pagod ever decked, " Or mosque of eastern architect." The dreary solitude, and the storms and snow of Farit, did not in the smallest degree prevent the inhabitants... | |
 | 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,...decked, Or mosque of eastern architect. Nor were these earth-horn castles har Nor lacked they many a hanner fair ; For, from their shivered hrows displayed,... | |
 | James Duncan - Roads - 1820 - 250 pages
...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;...decked, Or mosque of eastern architect. Nor were these earth-born castles bare, Nor lacked they many a banner fair; Por, from their shivered brows displayed,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 282 pages
...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, Form'd turret, dome, or battlement, Or seem'd fantastically set With cupola or minaret, Wild crests... | |
 | Henry Rowe Schoolcraft - History - 1821 - 470 pages
...array of dilapidated battlements and desolate towers. " Their rocky summits split and rent, " Form'd turret, dome, or battlement, '•" Or seemed fantastically set " With cupola or minaret, " Wild rrest? as pagod ever decked, " Or mosque of eastern architect." In some places the- v waves, .have... | |
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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... 
