 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
 | Mary Anne Marzials - 1867 - 332 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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - 536 pages
...Its thunder-splinter'd pinnacle; Round many au 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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - 398 pages
...The native bulwarks of the pass, Huge as the tower which builders vain Presumptuous piled on Shlnar's plain. The rocky summits, split and rent, Formed turret, dome, or battlement. < ir seemed fantastically set With cupola or minaret, Wild crests as pagod ever decked, Or mosque of... | |
 | Book - 1868 - 168 pages
...which builders vain Presumptuous piled on Shinar's plain. Their rocky summits, split and rent, Form'd turret, dome, or battlement, Or seem'd fantastically set With cupola or minaret, Wild crests as pagod ever deck'd, Or mosque of eastern architect. Nor were these earth-born castles... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1869 - 336 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. XI. Or seemed fantastically set With cupola or minaret, Wild crests as pagod ever decked, Or mosque... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1871 - 234 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...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... | |
 | William Steuart Trench - 1871 - 400 pages
...clefts and fissures which to man appear to be impenetrable, form a scene of rare and peculiar beauty. The rocky summits split and rent Formed turret, dome, or battlement, Or seemed fantastically set With cupola or minaret. Nor were these earthborn castles bare, Nor lacked... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1872 - 500 pages
...passage from Scott, where both her beholding and transforming powers arc seen in their simplicity. ' The rocky summits — split and rent, Formed turret, dome, or battlement. — Or seemed fantastically set With cupola or minaret. Nor were these earth-born castles bare," ' Nor lacked... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1872 - 500 pages
...passage from Scott, where both her beholding and transforming powers are seen in their simplicity. ' The rocky summits — split and rent, Formed turret, dome, or battlement.— Or seemed fantastically set With cupola or minaret. Nor were these earth-born castles bare, Nor lacked... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1873 - 552 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, a Or mosque of... | |
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