 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 444 pages
...pyramid, Shooting abruptly from the dell Its thunder-splintered pinnacle ; Round many an insulated mass, The native bulwarks of the pass, Huge as the tower...builders vain Presumptuous piled on Shinar's plain. Their rocky summits, split and rent, Formed turret, dome, or battlement, Or seemed fantastically set... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 454 pages
...pyramid, Shooting abruptly from the dell Its thunder-splintered pinnacle; Round many an insulated mass, The native bulwarks of the pass, Huge as the tower...builders vain Presumptuous piled on Shinar's plain. Their rocky summits, split and rent, Formed turret, dome, or battlement, Or seemed fantastically set... | |
 | Sir William Jackson Hooker - 1813 - 496 pages
...was fortunately provided with sufficient shelter from the storm by a lofty and perpendicular rock, " Huge as the tower, which builders vain " Presumptuous piled on Shinar's plain," — the whole so strange in form, and so broken into recesses and projections, that fancy VOL. I. T... | |
 | James Duncan - 1820 - 250 pages
...pyramid, Shooling abruptly from the dell Its thunder.splintered pinnacle ; Round many an insulated mass, The native bulwarks of the pass, Huge as the tower...builders vain Presumptuous piled on Shinar's plain; The rocky summits, split and rent; Formed turret, dome, or battlement, Or seemed fantastically set... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 282 pages
...pyramid, Shooting abruptly from the dell Its thunder-splinter'd pinnacle ; Round many an insulated mass-, The native bulwarks of the pass, Huge as the tower...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... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pages
...KATRINE. Shooting abruptly from the dell Its thunder-splintered pinnacle ; Round many an insulated mass, The native bulwarks of the pass, Huge as the tower...builders vain Presumptuous piled on Shinar's plain. Their rocky summits, split and rent, Formed turret, dome, or battlement, Or seemed fantastically set... | |
 | 1831 - 62 pages
...pyramid, Shooting abruptly from the dell Its thunder-splinter'd pinnacle; Round many an insulated mass, The native bulwarks of the pass, Huge as the tower...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... | |
 | Thomas Rose (topographical writer.) - 1832 - 232 pages
...pyramid ; Shooting abruptly from the dell Its thunder-splintered pinnacle; Round many an insulated mass, The native bulwarks of the pass, Huge as the tower...builders vain Presumptuous piled on Shinar's plain." GRASMERE LAKE AND VILLAGE,— WESTMORLAND. The parish of Grasmere, anciently written Gresmere and Grismere,... | |
 | Thomas Rose - 1832 - 238 pages
...pyramid ; Shooting abruptly from the dell Its thunder-splintered pinnacle ; Round many an insulated mass, The native bulwarks of the pass, Huge as the tower...builders vain Presumptuous piled on Shinar's plain." GRASMERE LAKE AND VILLAGE,— WESTMORLAND. The parish of Grasmere, anciently written Gresmere and Grismere,... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...pyramid, Shooting abruptly from the dell Its thunder-splintered pinnacle; Round many an insulated mass, The native bulwarks of the pass, Huge as the tower...builders vain Presumptuous piled on Shinar's plain. The rocky summit, split and rent, Formed turret, dome, or battlement, Or seemed fantastically set With... | |
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... purple peak, each flinty spire, Was bathed in floods of living fire. But not a setting beam could glow Within the dark ravines below... 
