| James Justinian Morier - 1816 - 454 pages
...towns with their churches and castles. Their rocky summits, split and rent, Form'd turret, dome, and battlement, Or seem'd fantastically set With cupola...pagod ever deck'd, Or mosque of eastern architect. , Lady of the Lake, Canto I. xi. One piece of land in particular, forming an entrance to the bay behind... | |
| 1817 - 292 pages
...thousand shapes, and diverse dimensions : " Round many an insulated man, The native bulwarks of the pass, The rocky summits, split and rent, Form'd turret, dome, or battlement, Or secm'd fantastically set With cupola or minaret. Wild crests as pagod ever deck'd, Or mosque of eastern... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 282 pages
...native bulwarks of the pass, Huge as the tower which builders vain Presumptuous piled on Shinar's plain. The rocky summits, split and rent, Form'd turret,...pagod ever deck'd, Or mosque of eastern architect. Nor were these earth-born castles bare, Nor lack'd they many a banner fair ; For, from their shiver'd... | |
| Walter Scott - 1822 - 400 pages
...native bulwarks of the pass, Huge as the tower which builders vain Presumptuous piled on Shinar's plain. The rocky summits, split and rent, Form'd turret,...pagod ever deck'd, Or mosque of eastern architect. Nor were these earth-born castles bare, Nor lack'd they many a banner fair ; For, from their shiver'd... | |
| Walter Scott - 1831 - 582 pages
...bulwarks of the pass, Huge aft the tower which builders vain Presumptuous piled on Shinar's plain. The rocky summits, split and rent, Form'd turret,...pagod ever deck'd, Or mosque of eastern architect Nor were these earth-born castles bare, Nor lack'd they many a banner fair , For, from their shi? er"d... | |
| 1831 - 62 pages
...bulwarks of the pass, Huge as the tower which builders vain Presumptuous piled on Shinar's plain, — The rocky summits split and rent, Form'd turret, dome,...pagod ever deck'd, Or mosque of eastern architect. We here too behold that those earth-born castles are not lacking in fair and brilliant banners; for... | |
| James Johnson - 1834 - 262 pages
...on Shinar's plain. The rocky summits, split and rent, Form'd turret, dome, or battlement, Orseem'd fantastically set With cupola or minaret, Wild crests...pagod ever deck'd, Or mosque of eastern architect." The tourist, while winding his way through the Trosachs, will look in vain for the cupola, pagoda,... | |
| 1837 - 236 pages
...piled on Shinar's plain. The rocky summits split and rent Formed turret, dome, or battlement, Or seemed fantastically set With cupola or minaret ; Wild crests...Pagod ever deck'd, Or mosque of Eastern architect. Nor were these earth-born castles bare, Nor lack'd they many a banner fair ; For from their shivered... | |
| Walter Scott - 1838 - 380 pages
...native bulwarks of the pass, Huge as the tower which builders vain Presumptuous piled on Shinar's plain. The rocky summits, split and rent, Form'd turret,...pagod ever deck'd, Or mosque of eastern architect. Nor were these earth-born castles bare, Nor lack'd they many a banner fair ; For, from their shiver... | |
| Edmund Flagg - 1838 - 306 pages
...I.— G Each purple peak, each flinty spire, Was bathed in floods of living fire. * » * * « Their rocky summits, split and rent, Form'd turret, dome,...With cupola or minaret, Wild crests as pagod ever decked Or mosque of eastern architect." All of these precipices, not less than those on the Ohio, betray... | |
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