 | New York Public Library - 1911 - 52 ページ
...did not get back to Tobermoray before midnight." — 7. MW Turner to James Lenox, August 16, 1845. "Nor of a theme less solemn tells That mighty surge...awful pause, From the high vault an answer draws." — Lord of the Isles, canto iv. 19 Portrait of Mrs. Robert Hooper. John Singleton Copley Canvas, 50x39^.... | |
 | Henry Montagu Butler - 1914 - 628 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 Iona's... | |
 | 1884 - 624 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 - 1914 - 284 ページ
...praise! Not for a meaner use ascend Her columns, or her arches bend; Nor of a theme less solemn tells 260 That mighty surge that ebbs and swells, And still,...prolong'd and high, That mocks the organ's melody. 265 Nor doth its entrance front in vain To old lona's holy fane, That Nature's voice might seem to... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1914 - 284 ページ
...of earthly architect, 255 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 260 That mighty surge that ebbs and swells, And still, between each awful pause, From the high vault... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1923 - 1122 ページ
...skill of earthly architect, Nature herself, it seemed, would raise A minster to her Maker's praise!1 Not for a meaner use ascend Her columns or her arches...surge that ebbs and swells, And still, between each &wful pause, From the high vault an answer draws In varied tone prolonged and high 1 See Note 107.... | |
 | 1885 - 1004 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 point in vain To old lona's... | |
 | 1865 - 834 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... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1913 - 972 ページ
...cave of Staffa, opposite : "Nature herself, it seemed, would raise A minister 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... | |
 | Roger Fiske - 1983 - 256 ページ
...at the bottom of the frame, the following lines from Scott's description in his Lord of the Isles: Nor of a theme less solemn tells That mighty surge...between each awful pause, From the high vault an answer draws.25 Turner's steamer was buffeted by what he described in a letter as 'a strong wind and a head... | |
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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... 
