| John Ruskin - 1889 - 638 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... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1890 - 458 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 u banner fair ; For, from their shivered... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1890 - 460 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 as paged ever decked, Or mosque of Eastern architect. Nor were these earth-born castles bare, Nor lacked... | |
| Walter Scott - 1890 - 290 pages
...bulwarks of the pass, 195 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... | |
| John Ruskin - 1891 - 520 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... | |
| John Ruskin - English literature - 1894 - 508 pages
...both her beholding and transforming powers are seen in their simplicity. " 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... | |
| John A. Gutteridge - Alaska - 1895 - 338 pages
...hills their level way; Each snowy peak, each flinty spire, Was bathed in floods of living fire. The rocky summits, split and rent, Formed turret, dome...Or seemed fantastically set With cupola or minaret. The wander's eye could barely view The summer heaven's delicious blue; So wonderous wild, the whole... | |
| Charles Mackay - English poetry - 1896 - 680 pages
...bulwarks of the pass. Huge as the tower which builders vxia Presumptuous piled on Shinir'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 bore, Nor lacked they many a banner fait ; For, from their shivered... | |
| Romesh Chunder Dutt - Europe - 1896 - 440 pages
...suspended in the air, and creepers, plants, and wild flowers were to be seen in abundance. • " 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... | |
| Charles Mackay - 1897 - 666 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... | |
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