| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1862 - 706 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 - 1862 - 240 pages
...beholding and transforming powers are seen in their simplicity. VOL. n. 9 " 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... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1864 - 680 pages
...bulwarks of the pass, Huge as the tower which bailders vain Presumptuous piled on Shinar's plain. The rocky summits, split and rent, Formed turret, dome,...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... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 252 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 Bigg - Highlands (Scotland) - 1865 - 186 pages
...which builders vain, Presumptuous piled on Shinar's plain. The rocky summits split and rent, Form'd turret dome or battlement, Or seemed fantastically set With cupola or minaret, Wild crest as pagod ever deck'd, Or mosque of Eastern architect ; Nor were these earthborn castles bare,... | |
| John William Stanhope Hows - English poetry - 1866 - 574 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... | |
| Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1866 - 408 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 - 1866 - 244 pages
...powers are seen in their simplicity. VOL. II. 9 l.)4 OF IMAGINATION CONTEMPLATIVE. [iV.IT K. " The rocky summits — split and rent, Formed turret, dome,...Or seemed fantastically set With cupola or minaret. Nor were these earth-horn castles bare, Nor lacked they many a banner fair, For from their shivered... | |
| Readers - 1866 - 408 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,...battlement; Or seemed fantastically set With cupola or minaretWild crests as pagod ever decked, Or mosque of Eastern architect. Nor were these earth-born... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - 398 pages
...piled on Shlnar's plain. The rocky summits, split and rent, Formed turret, dome, or battlement. < ir seemed fantastically set With cupola or minaret, Wild...pagod ever decked, Or mosque of eastern architect. Nor were these earth-born castles hare, Nor lacked they many a banner fair ; For, from their shivered... | |
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