 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 - 1862 - 568 pages
...temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave ; nor did they want Cornice or frieze, with bossy sculptures graven , The roof was fretted gold. Not Babylon, NTor great Alcairo, such magnificence Bquall'd in all their glories, to enshrine Belus or Serapis,... | |
 | Matilda Betham-Edwards - Rhineland (Germany) - 1863 - 274 pages
...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...glories, to enshrine Belus or Serapis, their gods." When we entered, the tears came into my eyes, and even Jessie spoke in whispers. Oh ! Edith, the sight... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...and voices sweet — Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave; nor did there want Cornice...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
...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...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
...and voices sweet, Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid 715 With golden architrave; nor did there want Cornice...magnificence Equalled in all their glories, to enshrine 720 Belus or Serapis their gods, or seat Their kings . . . Compare Nos 53, 54, 55. XXVIII. The Greenwich... | |
 | Bernard Marie Dupriez - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 572 pages
...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...their glories, to enshrine Belus or Serapis their gods or seat Their kings, when Egypt with Assyria strove In wealth and luxury. J. Milton, Paradise Lost,... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...true worship, a cathedral more fit for devils: pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave; nor did there want Cornice...Equalled in all their glories, to enshrine Belus or Scrapis their gods . . . . . . Th' ascending pile Stood fixed her stately height, and straight the... | |
 | John Summerson - Architecture - 1998 - 308 pages
...pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave; nor did there want 124 Cornice or frieze, with bossy sculptures graven: The roof was fretted gold. Gandy had projected a drawing on this text in Rome in 1796, but the fascination exercised by the satanic... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - Poetry - 2000 - 678 pages
...Paradise Lost, I, 713-719: 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 grav'n, The roof was fretted gold. Not Babylon. Nor great Alcairo such magnificence Equal'd in all... | |
 | 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... | |
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