| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1838 - 634 pages
...Philosophy did strain Her lidless eyes for thee ; when o'er the ^Egean main V. Athem arose : a city such as vision Builds from the purple crags and silver towers Of batttemented cloud, as in derision Of kingliest masonry : the ocean-floors Pave it ; the evening sky... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1839 - 408 pages
...murmured, and Philosophy did strain Her lidless eyes for thee ; when o'er the yEgean Athens arose : a eity such as vision Builds from the purple crags and silver...battlemented cloud, as in derision Of kingliest masonry : the oeean floors Pave it ; the evening sky pavilions it ; Ita portals are inhahited By thunder-zoned... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - Fore-edge painting - 1847 - 578 pages
...murmured, and Philosophy did strain Her lidless eyes for thee ; when o'er the /Kgeaii Athene arose : a city such as vision Builds from the purple crags and silver...battlemented cloud, as in derision Of kingliest masonry : the ocean floors Pave it ; the evening sky pavilions it ; Its portals are inhabited By thunder-zoned... | |
| Seven wonders - Architecture, Ancient - 1854 - 384 pages
...philosophy did strain Her lidless eyes for thee ; when o'er the J93gean main Athens arose : a city such as vision Builds from the purple crags and silver...battlemented cloud, as in derision Of kingliest masonry : the ocean-floors Pave it ; the evening sky pavilions it ; Its portals are inhabited By thunder-zoned... | |
| Theodore Alois Buckley - Seven Wonders of the World - 1854 - 332 pages
...and philosophy did strain Her lidless eyes for thee ; when o'er the JEgean main Athens arose : a city such as vision Builds from the purple crags and silver...battlemented cloud, as in derision Of kingliest masonry: the ocean-floors Pave it ; the evening sky pavilions it ; Its portals are inhabited By thunder-zoned... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1855 - 766 pages
...Philosophy did strain Her lidless eyes for thee ; when o'er the .ZEgean main v. Athens arose ; a city such as vision Builds from the purple crags and silver...battlemented cloud, as in derision Of kingliest masonry ; the ocean floors Pave it ; the evening sky pavilions it ; Its portals are inhabited ยป By thunder-zoned... | |
| Demosthenes - 1861 - 432 pages
...Philosophy did strain Her lidless eyes for thee ; when o'er the .SSgean main Athens arose ; a city such as vision Builds from the purple crags and silver...battlemented cloud, as in derision Of kingliest masonry : the ocean floors Pave it ; the evening sky pavilions it ; Its portals are inhabited By thunder-zoned... | |
| Demosthenes - 1861 - 486 pages
...and Philosophy did strain Her lidless eyes for thee ; when o'er the JSgean main Athens arose ; a city such as vision Builds from the purple crags and silver...battlemented cloud, as in derision Of kingliest masonry : the ocean floors Pave it ; the evening sky pavilions it ; Its portals are inhabited By thunder-zoned... | |
| John Addington Symonds - Change - 1863 - 70 pages
...Fancy must not be allowed to dazzle the eyes of our judgment with the picture of that city ; "A city such as vision Builds from the purple crags and silver...battlemented cloud, as in derision Of kingliest masonry." We must not forget what was wanting to her citizens, and which we now possess, with our riper civilization,... | |
| John Addington Symonds - Change - 1863 - 70 pages
...Fancy must not be allowed to dazzle the eyes of our judgment with the picture of that city ; " A city such as vision Builds from the purple crags and silver...battlemented cloud, as in derision Of kingliest masonry." We must not forget what was wanting to her citizens, and which we now possess, with our riper civilization,... | |
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