| George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 484 pages
...palace of rhyme, not unlike that raised long ago in another region, — where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars, overlaid With golden architrave ; nor did there want Cornice, or frieze, with bossy sculptures graven : The roof was fretted gold. The poem, however, did not rise exactly " like... | |
| Malachi Mouldy (pseud.) - 1844 - 310 pages
...XVII. A fabric huge Rose like an exhalation — Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave ; nor did there want Cornice or frieze, with bossy sculptures grav'n : The roof was fretted gold. Not Babylon, Nor great Alcairo such magnificence... | |
| James Edward Murdoch, William Russell - Elocution - 1845 - 424 pages
...sound Of dulcet symphonies, and voices sweet, Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars, overlaid With golden architrave ; nor did there want Cornice, or frieze, with bossy sculptures graven ; The roof was fretted gold. Not Babylon, Nor great Alcairo, such magnificence... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1845 - 560 pages
...earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation, finilt like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave ; nor did there want Cornice or frieze, with bossy sculptures graven ; The roof was fretted gold. Not Babylon Nor mat Alcairo such magnificence... | |
| Elocution - 1847 - 312 pages
...sound Of dulcet symphonies, and voices sweet, Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars, overlaid With golden architrave...; nor did there want .• Cornice, or frieze, with bossy sculptures graven ; The roof was fretted gold. Not Babylon, Nor great Alcairo, such magnificence... | |
| William Russell - 1849 - 310 pages
...sound Of dulcet symphonies, and voices sweet, Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars, overlaid With golden architrave ; nor did there want Cornice, or frieze, with bossy sculptures graven ; The roof was fretted gold. Not Babylon, Nor great Alcairo, such magnificence... | |
| John Milton, James Prendeville - Bible - 1850 - 452 pages
...sound Of dulcet symphonies, and voices sweet ; * Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars, overlaid With golden architrave : nor did there want Cornice, or frieze, with bossy sculptures grav'n : The roof was fretted gold . 8 'Not Babylon , Nor great Alcairo," such magnificence... | |
| Alfred Bate Richards - 1851 - 368 pages
...the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave ; nor did there want Cornice or frieze, with bossy sculptures graven The roof was fretted gold. The ascending pile Stood nVd her stately height... | |
| 582 pages
...finest, and explain its excellence. SECTION V. " Built like a temple, where pilasters round, Were set and Doric pillars, overlaid With golden architrave ; nor did there want Cornice or frieze, with bossy sculpture grav'n. The roof was fretted gold. Not Babylon, Nor great Alcairo, such magnificence.... | |
| John Milton, John Mitford - 1851 - 464 pages
...the found Of Dulcet Symphonies and voices fweet, Built like a Temple, where Pilafters round Were fet, and Doric pillars overlaid With Golden Architrave; nor did there want Cornice or Freeze, with bofly Sculptures grav'n, The Roof was fretted Gold. Not Babilon, Nor great Alcairo fuch... | |
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