| 1853 - 704 oldal
...There all unknown its columns rose, Where dark and undisturbed repose The cormorant had found ; And the shy seal had quiet home. And weltered in that wondrous dome, . Where, as to shame the temples ducked By skill of earthly architect, Nature herself, it seemed, would raise A Minster to her MAKEU'S... | |
| Random readings - 1854 - 204 oldal
...There all unknown its columns rose, Where dark and undisturbed repose The cormorant had found; And the shy seal had quiet home, And weltered in that...meaner use ascend Her columns, or her arches bend; Nor of a theme less solemn tells That mighty surge that ebbs and swells, And still, between each awful... | |
| Thomas Bulfinch - 1855 - 508 oldal
...the Isles, Scott beautifully contrasts the church on lona with the cave of Staffa, opposite : — " Nature herself, it seemed, would raise A minster to...meaner use ascend Her columns, or her arches bend ; Nor of a theme less solemn tells That mighty surge that ebbs and swells, And still between each awful... | |
| Walter Scott - 1855 - 914 oldal
...dome, Whore, as to shame the temples duck'd By skill of earthly architect, Nature herself, it seem'd, would raise A Minster to her Maker's praise !' Not...for a meaner use ascend Her columns, or her arches hcnd ; Nor of a theme less solemn tells That mighty surge that ebbs and swells, And still, between... | |
| Walter Scott - 1856 - 776 oldal
...dome, Where, as to shame the temples deck'd By skill of earthly architect, Nature herself, it seem'd, would raise A Minster to her Maker's praise ! Not...meaner use ascend Her columns, or her arches bend ; Nor of a theme less solemn tells That mighty surge that ebbs and swells, And still, between each... | |
| Walter Scott - 1857 - 468 oldal
...round. Then all unknown its columns rose, Where dark and undisturbed repose The cormorant had found, And the shy seal had quiet home, And weltered in that...meaner use ascend Her columns, or her arches bend ; Nor of a theme less solemn tells That mighty surge that ebbs and swells, And still, between each... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1857 - 448 oldal
...skill of earthly architect, Nature herself, it seem'd, would raise A Minster to her Maker's praise I Not for a meaner use ascend Her columns, or her arches bend ; Nor of a theme less solemn tells Tli at mighty surge that ebbs and swells, And still, between each... | |
| Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 oldal
...dark and undisturbed repose The cormorant had found ; And the shy seal had quiet home, And welter'd in that wondrous dome, Where, as to shame the temples...seemed would raise A minster to her Maker's praise : Kot for a meaner use ascend Her columns, or her arches bend, Nor of a theme less solemn tells That... | |
| Walter Cooper Dendy - 1859 - 120 oldal
...murmured by our lips. Here, "As to shame the temples deckt By skill of earthly architect, Nature itself it seemed would raise A minster to her Maker's praise;...meaner use ascend Her columns, or her arches bend; Nor of a theme less solemn tells That mighty surge that ebbs and swells. Nor doth its entrance point... | |
| Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott - 1860 - 410 oldal
...southward of Staffa, and Walter Scott finely contrasts the architecture of man with the pillared cave : — That wondrous dome, Where, as to shame the temples...seemed would raise A minster to her Maker's praise : Nor doth its entrance front in vain To old lona's holy fane, That Nature's voice might seem to say,... | |
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