 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...  The Naturalist - Page 141857Full view - About this book
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - Scotland - 1842 - 598 pages
...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 as pagod ever deck'd, Or mosque of Eastern architect. Nor were these earth-born castles bare, Nor lack'd they many a banner... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1843 - 732 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. Wild crests as pagod ever decked, Or mosque of eastern architect. Nor were these earth-horn castles hora. Nor lacked they many... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 110 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,...With cupola or minaret, Wild crests as pagod ever decked, Or mosque of Eastern architect. Nor were these earth-born castles bare, Nor lacked they many... | |
 | West Point (N.Y.) - 1844 - 126 pages
...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 as pagod ever deck'd, Or mosque of eastern architect. Nor were these earth-born castles bare, Nor lack'd they many a banner... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1846 - 922 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,...With cupola or minaret, Wild crests as pagod ever decked, Or mosque of Eastern architect. Nor were these earth-born castles bare, Nor lacked they many... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...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 as pagod ever deck'd, Or mosque of Eastern architect. Nor were these earth-born castles bare, Nor lack'd they many a banner... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Tracts - 1846 - 282 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,...fantastically set With cupola or minaret, Wild crests aspagod ever decked, Or mosque of Eastern architect. Nor were these earth-born castles bare, Nor lacked... | |
 | Robert Turnbull - Scotland - 1847 - 396 pages
...which, gleaming under the rays of the morning sun, appeared to the eye of poetical inspiration, " Like turret, dome or battlement, Or seemed fantastically...cupola or minaret, Wild crests as pagod ever deck'd, Or mosque of Eastern minaret." And not only so, but richly adorned with foresttrees and wild flowers among... | |
 | 1847 - 558 pages
...which builders vain. Presumptuous piled on Shiner's plain. The rocVy summits, split and rent, FormM turret, dome, or battlement' Or seemed fantastically...cupola, or minaret, Wild crests as Pagod ever deck'd. Or mosque of Eastern architect." Lady of the Lake, Canto L Ireland must not be forgotteu. In a political... | |
 | Freemasonry - 1847 - 538 pages
...which builders vain. Presumptuous piled on Shinar's plain. The rocKy summits, split and rent, Form'it turret, dome, or battlement. Or seemed fantastically...cupola, or minaret, Wild crests as Pagod ever deck'd. Or mosque of Eastern architect." Lady of the Lake, Canto L Ireland must not be forgotten. In a political... | |
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