 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
 | Anne Bowman - 1856 - 316 pages
...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 seem'd fantastically set With cupola or minaret, Crests — wild as pagod ever deck'd, Or mosque of... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - Scotland - 1856 - 826 pages
...bulwarks of the pass, I luge as the tower which builders vain Presumptuous piled on Shinar's plain. The rocky summits, split and rent, Formed turret, dome, or battlement, Or seem'd fantastically set With cupola or minaret, Or mosque of Eastern architect. Wild crests as pagod... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1857 - 444 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 372 pages
...on Shinar's plain.2 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,8 Nor lack'd they many a banner... | |
 | James Aitken Wylie - Waldenses - 1858 - 412 pages
...written for it : — " 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." Some of these views reminded me of the glimpse we have of St Paul's in... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - Aesthetics - 1859 - 504 pages
...passage from Scott, where both her beholding and transforming powers are seen in their simplicity. " The rocky summits — split and rent, Formed turret,...Or seemed fantastically set With cupola or minaret. Nor were these earth-born castles bare, Nor lacked they many a banner fair, For from their shivered... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - Aesthetics - 1859 - 496 pages
...passage from Scott, where both her beholding and transforming powers are seen in their simplicity. " The rocky summits — split and rent. Formed turret,...Or seemed fantastically set With cupola or minaret. Nor were these earth-born castles bare, Nor lacked they many a banner fair, For from their shivered... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1859 - 504 pages
...both her beholding and transforming powers are seen in their simplicity. " The rocky summits—split and rent, Formed turret, dome, or battlement.— Or seemed fantastically set With cupola or minaret. Nor were these earth-born castles bare, Nor lacked they many a banner fair, For from their shivered... | |
 | John Marius Wilson - 1859 - 476 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. And high aloft the pine-tree hung His shatter'd trunk, and frequent flung... | |
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