| Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1882 - 984 pages
...the tower which builders vain Presumptuous piled on Shinar's plain. The rocky summit, split and rout, Formed 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... | |
| John Swett, Charles H. Allen, Josiah Royce - Readers - 1883 - 366 pages
...hid, Round many a rocky pyramid, Shooting abruptly from the dell Its thunder-splintered pinnacle. 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... | |
| Walter Scott - Illustration of books - 1883 - 376 pages
...rocky summits, split and rent, Formed turret, dome, or battlement, Or seemed fantastically set aoa 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 a banner fait ; For, from their shivered... | |
| Walter Scott - Lady of the Lake (Legendary character) - 1883 - 296 pages
...many an insulated mass, The native bulwarks of the pass, Huge as the tower which builders vain XL The rocky summits, split and rent, Formed turret, dome, or battlement, Or seemed fantastically set 200 With cupola or minaret, /./h/4 Wild crests as pagod ever decked, ..''if' \ ^r mos(lue °f Eastern... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - History - 1883 - 382 pages
...piled on Shinar's plain. Their rocky summits, split and rent, Formed turret, dome, or battlement, 3r seemed fantastically set With cupola or minaret, Wild crests as pagod ever decked, )r mosque of Eastern architect. S"or were these earth-born castles bare, STor lacked they many a banner... | |
| James Johonnot - English language - 1885 - 202 pages
...Eound many a rocky pyramid, Shooting abruptly from the dell Its thunder-splintered pinnacle. " 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 silvered... | |
| John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1885 - 654 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... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1885 - 70 pages
...bulwarks of the pass, Huge as the tower which builders vain Presumptuous piled on Shinar's plain. 170 The rocky summits, split and rent, Formed turret, dome, or battlement, Or seemed fantastically set Wild crests as pagod ever decked, 175 Or mosque of Eastern architect. Nor were these earth-born castles... | |
| Walter Scott - 1888 - 682 pages
...bulwarks of the pass, Huge as the tower which builders vain Presumptuous piled on Shinars 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 - 1887 - 664 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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