 | John Milton - 1857 - 664 pages
...dross that floated on the top of the burning ore." — Pearce. With golden architrave ; nor did thfie want Cornice or frieze, with bossy sculptures graven ; The roof was fretted gold. Not Babylon, Nor great Alcairo 1 such magnificence Equalled in all their glories, to inshrine Belus... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1857 - 372 pages
...ruined pillars, out of pity, taken A load would sink a navy. Henry VIII., ui. 2. Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave PL, i. 714. As in a fiery column charioting His godlike presence SA, 27. Like pillars fixed more firmly,... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet — Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars...bossy sculptures graven: The roof was fretted gold. Not Babilon Nor great Alcairo such magnificence Equalled in all their glories, to inshrine Belus or... | |
 | James Richardson - Africa, North - 1970 - 506 pages
...Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies, and voices sweet, Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars...sculptures graven ; The roof was fretted gold." ***** " The ascending pile Stood fix'd her stately height; and straight the doors Opening their brazen folds, discover,... | |
 | Heinrich Mutschmann - 1924 - 80 pages
...and voices sweet, Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid 715 With golden architrave; nor did there want Cornice...bossy sculptures graven; The roof was fretted gold. Not Babylon, Nor great Alcairo, such magnificence Equalled in all their glories, to enshrine 720 Belus... | |
 | Bernard Marie Dupriez - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 572 pages
...Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars...bossy sculptures graven; The roof was fretted gold. Not Babylon, Nor great Alcairo such magnificence Equalled in all their glories, to enshrine Belus or... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...it to be an architectural blasphemy, a perversion of true worship, a cathedral more fit for devils: pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid...bossy sculptures graven; The roof was fretted gold. Not Babylon Nor great Alcairo such magnificence Equalled in all their glories, to enshrine Belus or... | |
 | John Summerson - Architecture - 1998 - 308 pages
...character, arched and vaulted and equipped with cornices of a diabolical order: Built like a Temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars...overlaid With golden architrave; nor did there want 124 Cornice or frieze, with bossy sculptures graven: The roof was fretted gold. Gandy had projected... | |
 | Euripides - Drama - 1999 - 285 pages
...Iphigenia at Tauris (Oxford, 1938), n. at 129) quotes Milton, Paradise Lost 1.713-15: Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave. 137 Here I am: Iphigenia had made it plain to the audience that she wished to see the Chorus at 64-5.... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - Poetry - 2000 - 678 pages
...stone has the hue of ages." 31 Poe probably had in mind Paradise Lost, I, 713-719: Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars...there want Cornice or frieze, with bossy sculptures grav'n, The roof was fretted gold. Not Babylon. Nor great Alcairo such magnificence Equal'd in all... | |
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Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet— Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave; nor did there want Cornice or frieze, with bossy sculptures graven:... 
