 O'er England's abbeys bends the sky, As on its friends, with kindred eye; For out of Thought's interior sphere These wonders rose to upper air; And Nature gladly gave them place, Adopted them into her race, And granted them an equal date With Andes and...  Galleries of Literary Portraits - Page 45by George Gilfillan - 1856Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Starr King - 1860 - 436 pages
...eye; For out of Thought's interior sphere., These wonders rose to upper air; And Nature gladly guve them place, Adopted them into her race, And granted them an equal date With Andes aud with Ararat. We have seen a common rye-field of some fifty acres on the slope of Mount Moriah,... | |
 | Thomas Chase - 1863 - 232 pages
...Greek fever. THE RUINS OF ATHENS. " Earth proudly wears the Parthenon, As the best gem upon her zone. For out of Thought's interior sphere These wonders...granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat." EMERSON. IF you stand in the Street of JEolus, the principal street of modern Athens, you see at its... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1864 - 796 pages
...tiles. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon, As the best gem upon her zone ; And morning opes with baste her lids To gaze upon the Pyramids ; O'er England's...granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat." We do not believe, however, in attempting to reproduce in our democratic land the costly and vast European... | |
 | Thomas Starr King - 1864 - 422 pages
...haste her lids, To gaze upon the Pyramids; O'er England's abbeys bends the sky As on its friends a kindred eye; For out of Thought's interior sphere,...granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat. We have seen a common rye-field of some fifty acres on the slope of Mount Moriah, in the Androscoggin... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1866 - 1010 pages
...opes with haste her lids, To gaze upon the Pyramids ; O'er England's abbeys bends the sky, As on ita friends, with kindred eye; For, out of Thought's interior...granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat. These temples grew as grows the gross ; Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive Master lent his... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1866 - 840 pages
...the sky, As on its friends with kindred eye; For out of Thought's interior sphere, Tbeee wonders roe* to upper air; And Nature gladly gave them place. Adopted...granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat." Whether or not we admit this religions inspiration, mixed with some earthly alloy, we cannot fail to... | |
 | 1868 - 450 pages
...• O.er England's abbeys bonds the sky, As on ita friends, with kindred eye ; For, out of thought.s interior sphere, These wonders rose to upper air ;...granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat." This day will not return to us. The inspiration of man never repeats itself. Yesterday it was Egypt,... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1869 - 264 pages
...the Pyramids ; O'er England's abbeys bends the sky, As on its friends, with kindred eye ; For,'out of Thought's interior sphere, These wonders rose to...granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat. These temples grew as grows the grass ; Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive Master lent his... | |
 | 1872 - 710 pages
...the Parthenon, As the best gem upon her zone ; And Morning opes with haste her lids, To gaza upon tho gather' d for the tomb — There's nothing bright...Heaven ! Thoma» Moore, »53. DECISION, Painful. These temples grew as grows the grass ; Art might obey, but not surpass ; Ths passive Master lent his... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 pages
...words of the poet — " O'er England's abbeys bends the sky, As on its friends, with kindred eye ; For Nature gladly gave them place, Adopted them into her...granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat." Read, and admired, Pope must always be — if not for his poetry •and passion, yet for his elegance,... | |
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