 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1866 - 656 ページ
...eastward lay, And Ulva dark, and Colonsay, And all the group of islets gay That guard famed Staffa round. Then all unknown its columns rose, Where dark and...cormorant had found, And the shy seal had quiet home, And welter d in that wondrous dome, Where, as to shame the temples deck'd By skill of earthly architect,... | |
 | John Ramsay M'Culloch - 1866 - 534 ページ
...nature.' The noblest description of this magnificent cave is that given by the great minstrel : — ' that wondrous dome Where, as to shame the temples...skill of earthly architect, 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1866 - 194 ページ
...islets gay That guard famed Staft'a round. Then all unknown its columns rose, Where dark and undisturbed repose The cormorant had found ; And the shy seal had quiet home, And weltered in that wondrous dome, Where, as to shame the temples decked By skill of earthly architect,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1867 - 670 ページ
...eastward lay, And Ulva dark, and Colonsay, And all the group of islets gay That guard lamed Staffa round. Then all unknown its columns rose, Where dark and...cormorant had found, And the shy seal had quiet home, And welter d in that wondrous dome, Where, as to shame the temples deck'd By skill of earthly architect,... | |
 | John Murray (publishers.) - 1867 - 546 ページ
...Walter Scott thus describes it : — " There all unknown its columns rose, Where dark and undisturbed repose The cormorant had found, And the shy seal had quiet home, And weltered in that wondrous dome ; Where, as to shame ihe temples decked By skill of earthly architect,... | |
 | John Murray (publishers.) - 1867 - 538 ページ
...Walter Scott thus describes it : — "There all unknown its columns rose, Where dark and undisturbed repose The cormorant had found, And the shy seal had quiet home, And weltered in that wondrous dome ; Where, as to shame the temples decked By skUl of earthly architect,... | |
 | James Frothingham Hunnewell - 1871 - 564 ページ
...has written so truly ; when, after telling l1ow in this story's time, — " Unknown " the Cavern's " columns rose, — Where dark and undisturb'd repose...cormorant had found, And the shy seal had quiet home," he sings the everlasting expressiveness of " that wondrous dome, Where, as to shame the temples dcck'd... | |
 | James Frothingham Hunnewell - 1871 - 540 ページ
...anthem Scott has written so truly ; how in this story's time, — " Unknown " the Cavern's " columns r Where dark and undisturb'd repose The cormorant had found. And the shy seal had quiet home," he sings the everlasting expressiveness of 41 that wondrous dome, Where, as to shame the temples deck'd... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1871 - 216 ページ
...women, and children, the inhabitants of the island- — which strew the floor of the cave. 99, x. — that wondrous dome, Where, as to shame the temples deck'd By skill of earthly architect. It would be unpardonable to detain the reader upon a wonder so often described, and yet so incapable... | |
 | James Frothingham Hunnewell - 1871 - 534 ページ
...how in this story's time, — " Unknown " the Cavern's " columns rose, — Where dark and undislurb'd repose The cormorant had found, And the shy seal had quiet home," he sings the everlasting expressiveness of " that wondrous dome, Where, as to shame the temples deck'd... | |
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Where, as to shame the temples decked By 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 bend ; Nor of a theme less solemn tells That mighty surge... 
