 | English literature - 1815 - 1008 pages
...gay That guaní famed Stafla round. Thtn all unknown its columns rose, Where dark and iindistnrb'd repose The cormorant had found, And the shy seal had...And welter'd in that wond'rous dome, Where, as to chame the temples dcck'd BT sl-iil of earthly architect, Nature herself, it seem'd, would raise A Minster... | |
 | English literature - 1815 - 606 pages
...eastward lay, And Ulva dark and Colonsay, And all the group of islets gay That guard famed Stafia round. Then all unknown its columns rose, Where dark and...the temples deck'd By skill of earthly architect, Mature herself, it seem'd, would raise A Minster to her Maker's praise ! Not for a meaner use ascend... | |
 | English literature - 1815 - 698 pages
...group of islets gay That guard famed Staffa round. Then all unknown its columns rose, Where dark ami undisturb'd repose The cormorant had found, And the...By skill of earthly architect, Nature herself, it seeni'd, would raise A Minster to her Maker's praise! Not for a meaner use ascend Her columns, or her... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1815 - 498 pages
...eastward lay, And Ulva dark and Colonsay, X And all the group of islets gay That guard famed Staffa round. Then all unknown its columns rose, Where dark and...that wond'rous dome, Where, as to shame the temples deck'tt By skill of earthly architect* Nature herself, it seem'd, would raise A Minster to her Maker's... | |
 | H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - American literature - 1818 - 500 pages
...eastward lay, And Ulva dark and Colonsay, And all tbe group of isleu gay That guard famed Siatfa round. Then all unknown its columns rose, Where dark and undisturb'd repose The cormorant had found, And Ihe shy seal had quiet home, And welter'd in that wondrous dome, Where, as to shame the temples deck'd... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 678 pages
...guy Thai guard famed Staffa round, (ti) Then all unknown its columns rose, Where dark and uudisturb'd repose The cormorant had found, And the shy seal had quiet home, And wclter'd in that-wond'rous dome, Where, as to shame the temples deck'd By skill of earthly architect,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1831 - 582 pages
...Tb* tbores of Mull on the eastward lay, Aad Uha dark and Colo May, And all the group of islets gay Then all unknown its columns rose, Where dark and...cormorant had found, And the shy seal had quiet home, And weltcr'd in that wond'rous dome, Where, as to shame the temples deck'd By skill of earthly architect,... | |
 | 1858 - 532 pages
...the lines of the Scottish Bard, who thus describes Fingal's Care in hi* " Lord of the Isles :" '• Where, as to shame the temples deck'd By skill of earthly architect, Mature herself it seem'd would raise A minster to her Maker's praise ! Not for a meaner use ascend... | |
 | Thomas Rose - Cumberland (England) - 1832 - 238 pages
...given, the eye is enabled to convey to the mind a vivid impression of " this scene sublime :" — " Where, as to shame the temples deck'd By skill of earthly architect, Nature herself, it seemed, would raise A minster to her Maker's praise." On the mountains forming the back-ground of the... | |
 | Thomas Rose (topographical writer.) - 1832 - 232 pages
...given, the eye is enabled to convey to the mind a vivid impression of " this scene sublime :" — " Where, as to shame the temples deck'd By skill of earthly architect, Nature herself, it seemed, would raise A minster to her Maker's praise." On the mountains forming the back-ground of the... | |
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Where, as to shame the temples decked By skill of earthly architect, Nature herself, it seemed, 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... 
