 Its thunder-splintered pinnacle; 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, Formed turret, dome, or battlement, Or seemed...  Black's Picturesque Tourist of Scotland - Page 159by Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1856 - 659 pagesFull view - About this book
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1810 - 468 pages
...Its thunder-splintered pinnacle ; Round many an insulated mass, The native bulwarks of the pass, Huge as the tower which builders vain Presumptuous piled...split and rent, Formed turret, dome, or battlement, Or seemed fantastically set With cupola or minaret, Wild crests as pagod ever decked, Or mosque of eastern... | |
 | Sir William Jackson Hooker - 1813 - 512 pages
...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 might here,... | |
 | James Duncan - 1820 - 250 pages
...Its thunder.splintered pinnacle ; Round many an insulated mass, The native bulwarks of the pass, Huge as the tower which builders vain Presumptuous piled...split and rent; Formed turret, dome, or battlement, Or seemed fantastically set With cupola, or minaret, Wild crests as pagod ever decked, Or mosque of eastern... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 282 pages
...thunder-splinter'd pinnacle ; Round many an insulated mass-, The native bulwarks of the pass, Huge as the tower which builders vain Presumptuous piled...Shinar's plain. The rocky summits, split and rent, Form'd turret, dome, or battlement, Or seem'd fantastically set With cupola or minaret, Wild crests... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1822 - 400 pages
...Its thunder-splinter'd pinnacle ; Round many an insulated mass, The native bulwarks of the pass, Huge as the tower which builders vain Presumptuous piled...Shinar's plain. The rocky summits, split and rent, Form'd turret, dome, or battlement, Or seem'd fantastically set With cupola or minaret, Wild crests... | |
 | 1828 - 452 pages
...Round many an insulated mass, The native bulwarks of the pass, Huge as the towers which builders rain Presumptuous piled on Shinar's plain. The rocky summits,...and rent, Formed turret, dome, or battlement ; Or seemed fantastically set With cupola or minaret, Wild crests as pagod ever decked, Or mosque of eastern... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1831 - 582 pages
...thunder-splinler'd pinnacle; Round many an insuldtcd mass, Tbe native 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, dome, or battlement, Or seem'd fantastically set With cupola or minaret. Wild crests... | |
 | 1831 - 62 pages
...Its thunder-splinter'd pinnacle; Round many an insulated mass, The native bulwarks of the pass, Huge as the tower which builders vain Presumptuous piled...Shinar's plain, — The rocky summits split and rent, Form'd turret, dome, or battlement; Or seem'd fantastically set With cupola or minaret, Wild crests... | |
 | 1837 - 236 pages
...Its thunder splintered pinnacle ; Round many an insulated mass The native bulwarks of the pass, Huge as the tower which builders vain Presumptuous piled...split and rent Formed turret, dome, or battlement, Or seemed fantastically set With cupola or minaret ; Wild crests as Pagod ever deck'd, Or mosque of Eastern... | |
 | Walter Scott, J. W. Lake - 1838 - 496 pages
...Us thunder-splintered pinnacle; Round many an insulated mass, The native bulwarks of the pass, Huge as the tower which builders vain Presumptuous piled...split and rent, Formed turret, dome, or battlement, Or seemed fa.uastically set With cupola or minaret, Wild crests as pagod ever decked, Or mosque of eastern... | |
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