| English poetry - 1869 - 328 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 eartb-born castles bare, Nor lacked they many a banner fair ; For o'er the unfathomable... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Anthologies - 1869 - 530 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... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1869 - 276 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... | |
| Walter Scott - Scottish poetry - 1869 - 336 pages
...piled on Shinar's plain. The rocky summits, split and rent, Formed turret, dome, or battlement. XI. Or seemed fantastically set With cupola or minaret,...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... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1870 - 798 pages
...bulwarks of the pass, Huge as the tower which builders vaiu Presumptuons piled on Shinar's plain. Their rocky summits, split and rent, Formed turret, dome,...cupola or minaret, Wild crests as pagod ever decked, Or mosqne of eastern architeet. Nor were these earth-born castles bare, Nor lacked they many a banner... | |
| William Steuart Trench - 1871 - 400 pages
...and fissures which to man appear to be impenetrable, form a scene of rare and peculiar beauty. The rocky summits split and rent Formed turret, dome,...Or seemed fantastically set With cupola or minaret. Nor were these earthborn castles bare, Nor lacked they many a banner fair ; For, from their shivered... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1872 - 134 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... | |
| John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - Aesthetics - 1872 - 500 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 - 1872 - 500 pages
...passage from Scott, where both her beholding and transforming powers arc 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... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - Poetry - 1873 - 552 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,...cupola or minaret, , Wild crests as pagod ever decked, a Or mosque of Eastern architect. Nor were these earth-born castles bare, Nor lacked they many a banner... | |
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