| William Russell - 1860 - 184 pages
...like that structure which "Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and vo:ces sweet ; Built like a temple, where pilasters round...; 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 influence... | |
| 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...bossy sculptures graven : The roof was fretted gold. The poem, however, did not rise exactly " like an exhalation." " The verse," writes its author's sprightly... | |
| John Milton - 1862 - 366 pages
...blast of wind, To many a row of pipes the sound-board breathes. Anon out of the earth a fabric huge 710 Rose, like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet...gold. Not Babylon Nor great Alcairo such magnificence Equalled in all their glories, to enshrine Belus or Serapis their gods, or seat 7» Their kings, when... | |
| John Milton - 1862 - 568 pages
...and from the boiling cells By strange conveyance fill'd each hollow nook : As ia an organ, from one blast of wind, To many a row of pipes the soundboard...with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, ISuilt like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave... | |
| George Lillie Craik - English language - 1862 - 578 pages
...metal — a sort of Pandemonium palace of rhyme, not unlike that raised long ago in another region, — where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars,...bossy sculptures graven : The roof was fretted gold. The poem, however, did not rise exactly " like an exhalation." " The verse," writes its author's sprightly... | |
| George Wilson - Chemistry - 1862 - 410 pages
...neither hammer, nor axe, nor any tool of iron heard in the house while it was in building;' but, ' Out of the earth, a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation,...symphonies and voices sweet Built like a temple.' On the atomic hypothesis, considered merely as a figment or artifice for expressing simply the laws... | |
| Matilda Betham-Edwards - Rhineland (Germany) - 1863 - 274 pages
...so much grandeur, and repeated these lines from Milton, I felt that the last one was the best — " Anon, out of the earth, a fabric huge Rose like an...Not Babylon, Nor great Alcairo, such magnificence Equalled in all their glories, to enshrine Belus or Serapis, their gods." When we entered, the tears... | |
| Electronic journals - 1863 - 588 pages
...by-the-bye, a wooden-headed critic opined to have derived the idea from Inigo Jones's carpentry : — " Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an...where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars." Paradise Lost, lib. i. 710. Successfully, however, as the Teutonic and the Anglican poets may have... | |
| George Lillie Craik - English language - 1863 - 564 pages
...metal — a sort of Pandemonium palace of rhyme, not unlike that raised long ago in another region, — where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars,...bossy sculptures graven : The roof was fretted gold. The poem, however, did not rise exactly " like an exhalation." " The verse," writes its author's sprightly... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - American essays - 1864 - 512 pages
...is true, but in a description rich with all his opulence of caressing and ennobling language : — " Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an...Cornice or frieze with bossy sculptures graven." The structure is of black walnut, and is covered with carved statues, busts, masks, and figures in the... | |
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