 | 1863 - 326 ページ
...foot be trod. MOOBE. IONA. NATURE herself, it seemed, would raise A minster to her Maker's praise ! Not for a meaner use ascend Her columns, or her arches...From the high vault an answer draws, In varied tone, prolonged and high, That mocks the organ's melody ; Nor doth its entrance front in vain To old lona's... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1863 - 666 ページ
...— whose columns seem to rise, and arches to bend, as in a Minster erected to her Maker's praise : Nor of a theme less solemn tells That mighty surge,...prolong'd and high, That mocks the organ's melody .t In Byron we have a " little billow crost By some low rock or shelve, that made it fret Against the... | |
 | 1863 - 648 ページ
...se columns seem to rise, and arches to bend, as in a Minster erected to her Maker's praise : — " Nor of a theme less solemn tells That mighty surge,...From the high vault an answer draws, In varied tone prolonged and high, That mocks the organ's melody." II In Byron we have a " little billow crost By... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 344 ページ
...skill of earthly architect, Nature herself, it seemed, would raise a minster to her Maker's praise: not for a meaner use ascend her columns, or her arches...from the high vault an answer draws, in varied tone prolonged and high, that mocks the organ's melody. Nor doth its entrance front in vain to old lona's... | |
 | Cecil Frances Alexander - 1865 - 342 ページ
...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...melody. Nor doth its entrance front in vain To old lona's holy fane, That Nature's voice might seem to say, " Well hast thou done, frail child of clay... | |
 | Cecil Frances Alexander - 1865 - 604 ページ
...skill of earthly architect, Nature herself, it seemed, would raise A minster to her Maker's praise ! Not for a meaner use ascend Her columns, or her arches...From the high vault an answer draws, In varied tone prolonged and high, That mocks the organ's melody. Nor doth its entrance front in vain To old lona's... | |
 | Alexander Murray (publisher.) - 1866 - 468 ページ
...of earthly architect, Nature herself, it seem'd, would raise A minster to her Maker's praise ! Nor for a meaner use ascend Her columns, or her arches...answer draws, In varied tone, prolong'd and high, That luocks the organ's melody; Nor does its entrance front in vain That Nature's voice might seem to say—... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1866 - 656 ページ
...skill of earthly architect, Nature herself, it seem'd, would raise Л Minster to her Maker's praise ! Not for a meaner use ascend Her columns, or her arches...From the high vault an answer draws, In varied tone prolonged and high, That mocks the organ s melody. Nor doth its entrance front in vain To old lona's... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1866 - 792 ページ
...skill of earthly architect, Nature hen-elf, it seemed, would raise A Minster to her Maker's praise ! .Not for a meaner use ascend Her columns, or her arches...From the high vault an answer draws, In varied tone prolonged and high. That mocks the organ's melody. Nor doth its entrance front in vain To old lona's... | |
 | English poetry - 1866 - 180 ページ
...skill of earthly architect, Nature herself, it seemed, would raise A minster to her Maker's praise ! Not for a meaner use ascend Her columns, or her arches...From the high vault an answer draws, In varied tone prolonged and high, That mocks the organ's melody. Nor doth its entrance front in vain To old lona's... | |
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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 for a meaner use ascend Her columns, or her arches bend ; Nor of a theme less solemn tells That mighty surge... 
