| English poetry - 1898 - 344 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... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - Ballads, Scots - 1900 - 604 pages
...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 these earth-born castles bare, Nor lacked they many a banner fair; For, from their shivered... | |
| Ella Marie Powers, Thomas Minard Balliet - Readers - 1902 - 328 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 those earth-born castles bare, Nor lacked they many a banner fair ; For, from their shivered... | |
| Walter Scott - Arthurian romances - 1902 - 254 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 aoo With cupola or minaret, Wild crests as pagod ever decked, Or mosque of Eastern architect. Nor were... | |
| John Ruskin - 1903 - 524 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... | |
| Ella Marie Powers, Thomas Minard Balliet - Readers - 1906 - 296 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... | |
| Mormon Church - 1906 - 602 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...With cupola or minaret, Wild crests as pagod ever deck'd, Or mosque of Eastern architect. Nor were these earth-born castles bare, Nor lack'd they many... | |
| Reuben Gold Thwaites - Mississippi River Valley - 1906 - 390 pages
...living fire. ***** Their rocky summits, split and rent, Form'd turret, dome, or battlement, Or seem'd fantastically set With cupola or minaret, Wild crests...pagod ever decked Or mosque of eastern architect." [74] All of these precipices, not less than those on the Ohio, betray palpable indication of having... | |
| 1855 - 714 pages
...the tower which builders vain, Presumptuous, piled on Shinar's plain. The rocky summits, split aud rent, Formed turret, dome, or battlement; Or seemed...With cupola, or minaret, Wild crests as pagod ever deck'd — Or mosque of Eastern architect. Nor were those earth-born castles bare, Nor lack'd they... | |
| Adrien Baret - 1909 - 332 pages
...bul'warks of the pass, Huge as the tower wAich buil'ders vain Presum'pluous piled on Shi'nar's plain. Thé roc'ky sum'mits, split and rent, Formed tur'ret, dome...fantas'tical'ly set With cu'pola or min'aret', Wild crest as pag'od ev'er deck Or mosque of ea'stern ar'chitect'. Nor were these eartA'-born cas'tles bare,... | |
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