 Where, as to shame the temples deck'd By skill of earthly architect, Nature herself, it seem'd, would raise A Minster to her Maker's praise ! Not for a meaner use ascend Her columns, or her arches bend ; Nor of a theme less solemn tells That mighty surge...  The Lands of Scott - Page 114de James Frothingham Hunnewell - 1871 - 508 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Wonders - 1866 - 400 pages
...seemed, would raise A minster to her Maker's praise ! SCOTT'S DESCRIPTION. 305 Not for a meaner arc ascend Her columns, or her arches bend ; Nor of a...From the high vault an answer draws, In varied tone, prolonged and high, That mocks the organ's melody. Nor doth its entrance front in vain To old lona's... | |
 | John Ramsay M'Culloch - 1866 - 534 pages
...Nature herself, it seem'd, wonld raise A minster to her Maker's praise I Not for a meaner use nscend Her columns, or her arches bend ; Nor of a theme less...From the high vault an answer draws. In varied tone prolonged and high, That mocks the organ's melody. Lord of the Isles, cant. iv. ut. 10. In a note on... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1866 - 750 pages
...thirty-four enthronized in such a spot among; scenes so sublime, with that mighty surge around, , ' that ebbs and swells, And still between each awful...prolong'd and high, That mocks the organ's melody.' One of those singular round towers so common in Ireland1, nearly fifty feet high, of rude masonry,... | |
 | 1866 - 586 pages
...of thirty-four enthronized in such a spot among; scenes so sublime, with that mighty surge around, ' that ebbs and swells, And still between each awful...prolong'd and high, That mocks the organ's melody.' One of those singular round towers so common in Ireland, nearly fifty feet high, of rude masonry, and... | |
 | English poetry - 1866 - 194 pages
...architect, Nature herself, it seemed, would raise A minster to her Maker's praise ' Not for a moaner use ascend Her columns, or her arches bend ; Nor of...theme less solemn tells That mighty surge that ebbs antl swells, And still, between each awful pause, From the high vault an answer draws, In varied tone... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1866 - 538 pages
...a theme \e*a solemn tells That mighty surge that ebbs and swells, And still. U;t\veeii each ftwful pause, From the high vault an answer draws. In varied tone prolong'd and high, Thut mocks the organ's melody. Ixird of the Mw, cunt. iv. et. 10. In a note on this passage, the author... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1867 - 666 pages
...deck'd By skill of earthly architect, Nature herself, it secm'd, would raise A Minster to her Maker's praise ! Not for a meaner use ascend Her columns,...pause, From the high vault an answer draws, In varied (one prolong'd and high, That mocks the organ's melody. Nor doth its entrance front in vain To old... | |
 | John Murray (publishers.) - 1867 - 546 pages
...of earthly architect, Nature herself, it seemed, would raise A Minster to her Maker's praise ! Xot for a meaner use ascend Her columns, or her arches...From the high vault an answer draws, In varied tone, prolonged and high, That mocks the organ's melody. Nor doth its entrance point in vain To old lona's... | |
 | Robert Hall Baynes - 1874 - 674 pages
...lacks energy, the second comprehensiveness; but both win live. THE HILL OF HOWTH. BY A. 'W. BFCKLAND. " Nor of a theme less solemn tells, That mighty surge that ebbs and swells, And still, between each avful pause, From the high vault an aniwer draws, In varied tone, prolonged and high, That mock) the... | |
 | William Pembroke Fetridge - 1870 - 964 pages
...column?, or ber arches bend ; Kor of a theme lew solemn tells That mighty surge that eblw and swells, Aad still between each awful pause From the high vault an answer draws, In varied form prolong1 d and hEgli, That mock* the organ's melody ; Nor doth iu entrance front In vain To obi... | |
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