| 1837 - 236 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,...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... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1838 - 268 pages
...Presumptuous piled on Shinar's plain. The rocky summits, split and rent. Formed turret, dome, or hattlement, Or seemed fantastically set With cupola or minaret,...pagod ever decked, Or mosque of eastern architect. Nor were these earth-horn castles hare, Nor lacked they many a hanner fair ; For, from their shivered... | |
| Edmund Flagg - Illinois - 1838 - 306 pages
...fire. * » * * « Their rocky summits, split and rent, Form'd turret, dome, or battlement, Or seem'd fantastically set With cupola or minaret, Wild crests...pagod ever decked Or mosque of eastern architect." All of these precipices, not less than those on the Ohio, betray palpable indication of having once... | |
| Edmund Flagg - Illinois - 1838 - 280 pages
...fire. » » * * » Their 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 decked Or mo»que of eastern architect." All of these precipices, not less than those on the Ohio, betray palpable... | |
| Walter Scott, J. W. Lake - Poetry - 1838 - 496 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 seemed fa.uastically set With cupola or minaret, Wild crests as pagod ever decked, Or mosque of eastern architect.... | |
| William Gibson - History - 1841 - 484 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 seemed fantastically set With cupola or minaret :" yet to the practised eye of an American, who has seen the wild and transcendently beautiful features... | |
| 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....pagod ever decked, Or mosque of eastern architect. Nor were these earth-horn castles hora. Nor lacked they many a hanner fair ; For, from their shivered... | |
| 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,...pagod ever decked, Or mosque of Eastern architect. Nor were these earth-born castles bare, Nor lacked they many a banner fair ; For, from their shivered... | |
| 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,...pagod ever decked, Or mosque of Eastern architect. Nor were these earth-born castles bare, Nor lacked they many a banner fair ; For, from their shivered... | |
| 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... | |
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