 | 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... | |
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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:... 
