 | Wonders - 1866 - 400 ページ
...seemed, would raise A minster to her Maker's praise ! SCOTT'S DESCRIPTION. 305 Not for a meaner arc ascend Her columns, or her arches bend ; Nor of a...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... | |
 | John Ramsay M'Culloch - 1866 - 534 ページ
...Nature herself, it seem'd, wonld raise A minster to her Maker's praise I Not for a meaner use nscend Her columns, or her arches bend ; Nor of a theme less...From the high vault an answer draws. In varied tone prolonged and high, That mocks the organ's melody. Lord of the Isles, cant. iv. ut. 10. In a note on... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1866 - 750 ページ
...thirty-four enthronized in such a spot among; scenes so sublime, with that mighty surge around, , ' that ebbs and swells, And still between each awful...prolong'd and high, That mocks the organ's melody.' One of those singular round towers so common in Ireland1, nearly fifty feet high, of rude masonry,... | |
 | 1866 - 586 ページ
...of thirty-four enthronized in such a spot among; scenes so sublime, with that mighty surge around, ' that ebbs and swells, And still between each awful...prolong'd and high, That mocks the organ's melody.' One of those singular round towers so common in Ireland, nearly fifty feet high, of rude masonry, and... | |
 | English poetry - 1866 - 194 ページ
...architect, Nature herself, it seemed, would raise A minster to her Maker's praise ' Not for a moaner use ascend Her columns, or her arches bend ; Nor of...theme less solemn tells That mighty surge that ebbs antl swells, And still, between each awful pause, From the high vault an answer draws, In varied tone... | |
 | John Murray (publishers.) - 1867 - 546 ページ
...of earthly architect, Nature herself, it seemed, would raise A Minster to her Maker's praise ! Xot 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 point in vain To old lona's... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1867 - 670 ページ
...skill of earthly architect, Nature herself, it secm'd, would raise A Minster to her Maker's praise ! Not for a meaner use ascend Her columns, or her arches...pause, From the high vault an answer draws, In varied (one prolong'd and high, That mocks the organ's melody. Nor doth its entrance front in vain To old... | |
 | John Murray (publishers.) - 1867 - 538 ページ
...raise A Minster to her Maker's praise ! Not* for a meaner use ascend Her columns, or her arches bend j 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. Nor doth its entrance point in vain To old lona's... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1870 - 468 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 Iona's holy fane, That Nature's voice might seem to say, ' Well hast thou done, frail Child of clay... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1871 - 216 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... | |
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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... 
