 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,...  An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ... - Page 390by Joseph Warton - 1806 - 8 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave; nor did there want Cornice or frieze, with bossy sculptures grav'n, The roof was fretted... | |
 | H. J. Jackson - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 344 pages
...just two to represent them all.9 A passage describing the palace in Hell is underlined throughout: Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation,...with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, . . . and straight the doors, Opening their brazen folds, discover, wide Within, her ample spaces,... | |
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