 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
 | Anthologia Anglica - 1873 - 512 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 - 1874 - 660 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,...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... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1876 - 562 pages
...bulwarks of the pass, Huge as ths tower which builders vain Presumptuous piled on Shinar's plain. Their rocky summits, split and rent, Formed turret, dome, or battlement, Or seemed fantastieally set With cupola or minaret, Wild crests as pagod ever decked, Or mosque of Eastern architect.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1877 - 688 pages
...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,...fantastically set With cupola or minaret, Wild crests as paged ever decked, Or mosque of eastern architect. Nor were these earth-born castles bare, Nor lacked... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1877 - 78 pages
...over a mountain chain. 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 fantastically set 200 With cupola or minaret, Wild crests as pagod ever decked, Or mosque of Eastern architect. Nor were... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1878 - 280 pages
...Huge as the tower which builders vain Presumptuous piled on Shinar's plain. LaDg of tfje Lake, 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... | |
 | Jabez Marrat - Landscapes - 1879 - 250 pages
...native bulwarks of the pass, Huge as the tower which builders vaia Presumptuous piled on Shinar's plain, The rocky summits, split and rent, Formed turret,...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... | |
 | Maurice Paterson - 1880 - 392 pages
...bulwarks of the pass, Huge as the tower which builders vain Presumptuous piled on Shinar's plain. 2. The rocky summits, split and rent, Formed turret,...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... | |
 | Ascott Robert Hope Moncrieff - Physical sciences - 1880 - 136 pages
...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,...With cupola or minaret, Wild crests as pagod ever decked, Or mosque of Eastern architect." All that is wildest, weirdest, grandest, awfullest, appeared... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...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,...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... | |
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