 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1898 - 568 ページ
...amid the ruins of lona." " Nature herself, it seemed, would raise A minister to her Maker's praise ! Not for a meaner use ascend Her columns, or her arches...less solemn tells That mighty surge that ebbs and swtlls, And still between each awful pause, From the high vault an answer draws, In varied tone, prolonged... | |
 | Charles Maus Taylor - 1899 - 340 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...pause, From the high vault an answer draws, In varied tones, prolonged and high, That mocks the organ's melody. Nor doth its entrance front in vain To old... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1900 - 760 ページ
...skill of earthly architect, Nature herself, it seem'd, would raise A Minister to her Maker's praise ! 8 Not for a meaner use ascend Her columns, or her arches...prolong'd and high, That mocks the organ's melody. 1 Of the prominent beauties which abound in the poem, the most magnificent we consider to be the description... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1900 - 404 ページ
...skill of earthly architect, Nature herself, it seem'd, would raise A Minister to her Maker's praise ! 8 Not for a meaner use ascend Her columns, or her arches...prolong'd and high, That mocks the organ's melody. 1 Of the prominent beauties which abound in the poem, the most magnificent we consider to be the description... | |
 | Esther Singleton - 1900 - 480 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...That mighty surge that ebbs and swells, And still, beneath each awful pause From the high vault an answer draws, In varied tone prolonged and high That... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1900 - 604 ページ
...swells, And still, between each awful pause, 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 holy fane, That Nature's voice might seem to say, ' Well hast thou done, frail child of clay... | |
 | Robert Chignell - 1902 - 280 ページ
...and Abed-nego came forth of the midst of the fire." — Daniel iii. 26. V Staffa, Fingal's Cave. " Nor of a theme less solemn tells That mighty surge...awful pause, From the high vault an answer draws." —S1R WALTER SCOTT'S Lord of the hics, Canto IV. IMW Turner, RA, Professor of Perspective, Queen Anne... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1903 - 510 ページ
...of Staffa, opposite — " 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... | |
 | William Lionel Wyllie - 1905 - 346 ページ
...the glare, and in the middle a vast spectral figure. Besides this there was Staffa, FingaPs cave : Nor of a theme less solemn tells That mighty surge...each awful pause From the high vault an answer draws. SIR WALTER SCOTT'S Lord of the Isles. Breakers are dashing against the basaltic columns, the smoke... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1908 - 992 ページ
...skill of earthly architect. Nature herself, it seem'd, would raise A Minster to her Maker's praise ! ce The sun's retiring beams 1 I see the dagger-crest...comes winding far ! To hero bound for battle-strife, 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... 
