 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, with bossy sculptures graven...  The Protestant magazine - Page 147by Protestant association - 1845Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...bossy sculptures graven,0 The roof was fretted gold. Not Babylon,0 Nor great Alcairo such magnificence0 Equalled in all their glories, to enshrine Belus or Serapis their gods, or seat0 720 Their kings, when Egypt with Assyria strove In wealth and luxury. The ascending pile Soon... | |
 | John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - Poetry - 2003 - 388 pages
...overlaid With Golden Architrave; nor did there want 7li Cornice or Frieze, with bossy Sculptures grav'n; The Roof was fretted Gold. Not Babylon, Nor great Alcairo such magnificence Equall'd in all thir glories, to inshrine Belus or Serapis thir Gods, or seat 720 Thir Kings, when... | |
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