 | Walter Scott - Arthurian legend - 1810 - 454 pages
...or battlement, Or seemed fantastically set 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 brows displayed, Far o'er the unfathomable... | |
 | Religion - 1811 - 872 pages
...or battlement, Or seemed fantastically set With cupola or minaret, Wild crests as pngod 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 brows displayed, Far, o'er the unfathomable... | |
 | James Justinian Morier - Armenia - 1816 - 454 pages
...as to give to many parts of the coast, an appearance of towns with their churches and castles. Their rocky summits, split and rent, Form'd turret, dome,...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
...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...pagod ever deck'd, Or mosque of eastern architect." Lady of the Lake, Canto lit. We were now on classic ground : we ascended the promontory on which the... | |
 | James Duncan - Roads - 1820 - 250 pages
...battlement, Or seemed fantastically set 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; Por, from their shivered brows displayed, Par o'er the unfathomable... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1822 - 400 pages
...vain Presumptuous piled on Shinar's plain. The rocky summits, split and rent, Form'd turret, dome, or battlement, Or seem'd fantastically set With cupola...many a banner fair ; For, from their shiver'd brows displayed, Far o'er the unfathomable glade, All twinkling with the dew-drops sheen, The briar-rose... | |
 | 1828 - 452 pages
...battlement ; Or seemed fantastically set 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 brow displayed, Far o'er the unfathomable... | |
 | Walter Scott - Scottish poetry - 1831 - 582 pages
...vain Presumptuous piled on Shinar's plain. The rocky summits, split and rent, Form'd turret, dome, or battlement, Or seem'd fantastically set With cupola...Nor lack'd they many a banner fair , For, from their shi? er"d brows display'd, Far o'er the unfathomable glade, All twinkling with the dew-drops sheen,... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...or battlement, Or seemed fantastically set 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 brows displayed, Far o'er the unfathomable... | |
 | 1831 - 62 pages
...Presumptuous piled on Shinar's plain, — The rocky summits split and rent, Form'd turret, dome, or battlement; Or seem'd fantastically set With cupola...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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Round many an insulated mass, The 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, dome, or battlement, Or seem'd fantastically set With cupola or... 
