 | Henry Coppée - English language - 1859 - 380 pages
...the building of Satan's palace in Hell :— " 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 lurid fane stands before us as we read. Of... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1861 - 816 pages
...thé sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet; Built like a temple, whcre pilasters round Wcre set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave : nor did there want Cornice of frieze with bossy sculptures graveni The roof was fretted gold. Not Babylon, Nor gréât Alcairo... | |
 | William Russell - 1860 - 184 pages
...sound Of dulcet symphonies and vo:ces 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 sculpture graven ; The roof was fretted gold." Taste is not a quality merely negative in its... | |
 | John Milton - 1860 - 424 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. Not Babylon, Nor great Alcairo such magnificence... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1861 - 580 pages
...palace of rhyme, not unlike that raised long ago in another region, — where pilasters round Wore 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1862 - 366 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. Not Babylon Nor great Alcairo such magnificence... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1862 - 578 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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1863 - 564 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... | |
 | Matilda Betham-Edwards - Rhineland (Germany) - 1863 - 274 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. Not Babylon, Nor great Alcairo, such magnificence... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - American essays - 1864 - 512 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 structure is of black walnut, and is covered with carved statues, busts,... | |
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Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation, with 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... 
