 | Charles Richard Weld - Auvergne - 1801 - 376 pages
...who have bowed to a mighty spirit with whom is life eternal, have felt this. Thus the poet sings — Not vainly did the early Persian make His altar, the...places, and the peak Of earth, o'ergazing mountains, and thus take A fit and unwall'd temple, there to seek The Spirit, in whose honour shrines are weak... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 pages
...all things with beauty; — 'twould disarm The spectre Death, had he substantial power to harm. CXI. Not vainly did the early Persian make His altar the...places and the peak Of earth- o'ergazing mountains, z° and thus take A fit and nnwall'd temple, there to seek The Spirit, in whose honour shrines are... | |
 | Walter Scott - Europe - 1820 - 748 pages
...religious solemnity in the very atmosphere, which I could never perceive above the dome of St Peter's. Not vainly did the early Persian make His altar the high places and the peak Of earth o'er gazing mountain*. Both the moral and intellectual character of a genuine Swiss, is as superior... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1821 - 478 pages
...all things with beauty; — 'twould disarm The spectre Death, had he substantial power to harm. XCI. Not vainly did the early Persian make His altar the high places and the peak Of earth-o'ergazing mountains, and thus take A (it and uuwall'd temple, there to seek The Spirit, m whose... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 234 pages
...Binding all things with beauty ;—'twould disarm The spectre Death, had he substantial power to harm. Not vainly did the early Persian make His altar the high places and the peak Of earth-o'ergazing mountains, and thus take A fit and unwall'd temple, there to seek The Spirit, in whose... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 334 pages
...all things with heauty ; — 'twould disarm The speetre Death, had he suhstantial power to harm. XCt. Not vainly did the early Persian make His altar the high places and the peak Of earth-o'ergazing mountains, (20) and thus The Spirit, in whose honour shrines are weak, Uprear'd of... | |
 | Poets, English - 1825 - 450 pages
...explicitly tells us. In the third canto of "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" is the following stanza : " Not vainly did the early Persian make His altar the...places, and the peak Of earth, o'ergazing mountains, and thus take A fit and unwall'd temple, there to seek The Spirit, in whose honour shrines are weak,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 906 pages
...all things with beauty;—'t would disarm The spectre death, had he substantial power to harm. XCI. Not vainly did the early Persian make His altar the high places and the peak Of earth-o'ergazing mountains, 30 and thus take A fit and unwall'd temple, there to seek The spirit, in... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1826 - 170 pages
...all things with beauty ; — 'twould disarm The spectre Death, had he substantial power to harm. XCI. Not vainly did the early Persian make His altar the high places and the peak Of earth-o'crgazing mountains, (20) and thus take A fit and nnwall'd temple, there to seek The Spirit... | |
 | George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 804 pages
...all things with beauty ;— 'twould disarm The spectre Death, had he substantial power to harm. \ot ey have power — The tyranny of pleasure and of pain ; They make DJ earth-o'ergaxing mountains, and thus take A fit and unwall'd temple, there to seek The Spirit, in whose... | |
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Uprear'd of human hands. Come, and compare Columns and idol-dwellings, Goth or Greek, With Nature's realms of worship, earth and air... 
