 | 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...want Cornice or frieze with bossy sculptures graven." I 378 THE GREAT INSTRUMENT. The structure is of black walnut, and is covered with carved statues, busts,... | |
 | John Milton - 1864 - 584 pages
...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...with bossy sculptures graven ; The roof was fretted go'd. Not Babylon, Nor great Alcairo, such magnificence Equalled in all. their glories, to enshrine... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - American essays - 1864 - 490 pages
...of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and yoices sweet, Built like a temple, where pilasters round...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... | |
 | Organ (Musical instrument) - 1865 - 120 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...there want Cornice or frieze with bossy sculptures grav'n. ' " As we return to the impression produced by the grand facade, we are more and more struck... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...and from the boiling cells By strange conveyance filled each hollow nook; As in an organ, from one blast of wind, To many a row of pipes the sound-board...sculptures graven: The roof was fretted gold. Not Babilon Nor great Alcairo such magnificence Equalled in all their glories, to inshrine Belus or Serapis... | |
 | James Richardson - Africa, North - 1970 - 506 pages
...of contrast being light and splendour amidst the " darkness visible" of the regions of perdition. " Anon, out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an...bossy sculptures graven ; The roof was fretted gold." ***** " The ascending pile Stood fix'd her stately height; and straight the doors Opening their brazen... | |
 | Heinrich Mutschmann - 1924 - 80 pages
...our afflicted powers, Consult . . . XXVII. Pandemonium and the Residence of the King of Cathay. 1.710 Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation,...pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid 715 With golden architrave; nor did there want Cornice or frieze, with bossy sculptures graven; The... | |
 | Bernard Marie Dupriez - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 572 pages
...BAROQUISM The search for the rarest, the most surprising, and most curious ideas, figures, and words. Ex: Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation,...gold. Not Babylon, Nor great Alcairo such magnificence Equalled in all their glories, to enshrine Belus or Serapis their gods or seat Their kings, when Egypt... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...it to be an architectural blasphemy, a perversion of true worship, a cathedral more fit for devils: pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid...gold. Not Babylon Nor great Alcairo such magnificence Equalled in all their glories, to enshrine Belus or Scrapis their gods . . . . . . Th' ascending pile... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - Poetry - 2000 - 678 pages
...says, "The chiselled stone has the hue of ages." 31 Poe probably had in mind Paradise Lost, I, 713-719: Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set,...there want Cornice or frieze, with bossy sculptures grav'n, The roof was fretted gold. Not Babylon. Nor great Alcairo such magnificence Equal'd in all... | |
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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 frieze,... 
