 | 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...With 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... | |
 | 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...With 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... | |
 | 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...With 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 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,...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... | |
 | John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1848 - 266 pages
...passage from Scott, where both her beholding and transforming powers are seen in their simplicity : " The rocky summits— split and rent, Formed turret, dome,...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... | |
 | Willard C. George - Europe - 1852 - 266 pages
...bulwarks of the pass, Huge as the towers that builders vain, Presumptuous piled on Shinar's plain, The rocky summits split and rent, Formed turret, dome...pagod ever decked, Or mosque of eastern architect. Nor were these earth-borne castles bare, Nor lacked they many a banner fair: For, from their shivering... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1852 - 594 pages
...bulwarks of the pass, Huge as the tower which builders vam 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... | |
 | Robert Blachford Mansfield - 1854 - 142 pages
...form, like a party of colossal idols picnieing in the valley. The ,rocky summits split and rent. Farmed turret, dome, or battlement, Or seemed fantastically...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... | |
 | Henry Howe - Mississippi River Valley - 1855 - 908 pages
...promontories, which, at a distance present the terrible array of dilapidated battlements and desolate towers: Or seemed fantastically set With cupola or minaret, Wild crests as pagod ever decked, Or mosqne of eastern minaret." In some places the waves have lashed down the lower strata, while the upper... | |
 | John Ruskin - ART - 1856 - 252 pages
...passage from Scott, where both her beholding and transforming powers are seen in their simplicity : " The rocky summits, split and rent, Formed turret, dome,...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... | |
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The rocky summits, split and rent, Formed turret, dome, or battlement, Or seemed fantastically set With cupola or minaret, Wild crests as pagod ever decked, Or mosque of Eastern architect. 
