 | Robert Southey - 1816 - 268 pages
.... . Pair city, worthy of her ancient fame. The season of her splendour is gone by, Yet every where its monuments remain; Temples which rear their stately...Wide streets and squares, with many a court and hall XV; XVI. Time hath not wronged her, nor hath Ruin sought Rudely her splendid structures to destroy,... | |
 | Christopher Kelly - 1817 - 550 pages
...Southey on thie cily are peculiarly apposite : " The season of her splendour is gone by, Yet every where its monuments remain ; Temples which rear their stately...and squares, with many a court and hall Spacious and undefac'd, but ancient all. Time hath not wrong'd her, nor hath Ruin sought Rudely her splendid structurel... | |
 | Christopher Kelly - 1818 - 568 pages
...splendour is gone by, Yet every where it! monuments remain ; Temples which rear their stately beads on high, Canals that intersect the fertile plain, Wide streets and squares, with many a court and ball Spacious and undefac'd, but ancient all. Time hath not wrong'd her, nor hath Ruin sought Rudely... | |
 | 1836 - 790 pages
..." Fair city, worthy or her ancient fame, The aeuon of her splendour U gone by ; Yet every where iti monuments remain ; Temples, which rear their stately...and squares, with many a court and hall Spacious and undefaced, but ancient all. When I may read of tilts in days of old, Of tournays graced by chieftains... | |
 | Seth William Stevenson - 1827 - 928 pages
...objects. It is respectable from its neatness ; agreeable for its airiness ; venerable in its display of Wide streets and squares, with many a court and hall, Spacious and nndefaced, but ancient all. SOUTHEY. Sept. 4. — Precisely at five o'clock I pursued my route for... | |
 | 1834 - 864 pages
...manufacture at Leeds. Well may Mr. Southey exclaim ' The season of her splendour is gone by, Yet every where its monuments remain : Temples which rear their stately...squares, with many a court and hall, Spacious and undefaced — but ancient all ' When I may read of tilts in days of old, And tourneys graced by chieftains... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1834 - 596 pages
...manufacture at Leeds. Well may Mr. Southey exclaim ' The season of her splendour is gone by, Yet every where its monuments remain: Temples which rear their stately...squares, with many a court and hall, Spacious and undefaced — but ancient all ' When I may read of tilts in days of old, And tourneys graced by chieftains... | |
 | Joseph Octave Delepierre - 1835 - 334 pages
...splendeur is gone hy, Têt every where its monuments remain, Temples which rear their stately heads on Canals that intersect the fertile plain Wide streets...and squares, with many a court and hall Spacious and undefaced, but ancient ail. When I may read of tilt» in days of old, Of tournays graced by chieftains... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1838 - 612 pages
...wealth and prosperity. Fair city, worthy of her ancient fame ! The season of her splendour is gone by, Yet everywhere its monuments remain : Temples which...squares, with many a court and hall, Spacious and undefaced — but ancient all. "When I may read of tilts in days of old, Of tournays graced by chieftains... | |
 | 1834 - 602 pages
...and its manufacture at Leeds. Well may Mr. Southey exclaim ' The season of her splendour is gone by, Yet everywhere its monuments remain: Temples which...squares, with many a court and hall, Spacious and undefaced — but ancient all ' When I may read of tilts in days of old, And tourneys graced by chieftains... | |
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Fair city, worthy of her ancient fame ! The season of her splendour is gone by, Yet everywhere its monuments remain : Temples which rear their stately heads on high, Canals that intersect the fertile plain — "Wide streets and squares, with many a court... 
