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" The rocky summits, split and rent, Form'd turret, dome, or battlement, Or seem'd fantastically set With cupola or minaret, Wild crests as pagod ever deck'd, Or mosque of Eastern architect. "
The Donegal highlands [by J. MacDevitt]. - Page 101
by James MacDevitt (bp. of Raphoe.) - 1866
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A Journey Through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, in the ...

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...
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The Edinburgh Observer: Or, Town and Country Magazine, Issues 1-11

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...
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The poetical works of Walter Scott, Volume 5

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...
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The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volume 4

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...
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The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott

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...
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Guide to the Romantic Scenery of Loch-Lomond, Loch-Ketturin, the Trosachs, &c

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...
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The recess, or autumnal relaxation in the Highlands and Lowlands, a tour to ...

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,...
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Tourist's Guide Through Scotland: Upon a New and Improved Plan

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...
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The Lady of the Lake: A Poem

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...
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The Far West, Or, A Tour Beyond the Mountains: Embracing Outlines ..., Volume 1

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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