| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1878 - 280 pages
...Huge as the tower which builders vain Presumptuous piled on Shinar's plain. LaDg of tfje Lake, 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... | |
| Jabez Marrat - Landscapes - 1879 - 250 pages
...bulwarks of the pass, Huge as the tower which builders vaia 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... | |
| Ascott Robert Hope Moncrieff - Physical sciences - 1880 - 136 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." All that is wildest, weirdest, grandest, awfullest, appeared to be concentrated in this hitherto unknown... | |
| Maurice Paterson - 1880 - 392 pages
...bulwarks of the pass, Huge as the tower which builders vain Presumptuous piled on Shinar's plain. 2. 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 shiver'd... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1880 - 330 pages
...bulwarks of the pass, Huge as the towers 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... | |
| Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 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... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...Beauty is truth, truth beauty," — that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. JOHN KEATS. Could scarce forbear to cheer. Nor were these earth-born castles bare, Nor lacked they many a banner fair ; For, from their shivered... | |
| Charles Isaac Abee Chapman - Wyoming Valley (Pa.) - 1880 - 124 pages
...vain Presumptuous piled on Shinar's plain. The rocky summits, split and rent, Formed turret, dome and battlement, Or seemed fantastically set With cupola or minaret — Wild crests as Pagod ever deck'd, Or mosque of Eastern architect. Nor were these earth-born castles bare, Nor lacked they many... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882 - 660 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... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882 - 684 pages
...bulwarks of the pass, Huge a5 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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