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 | English poetry - 1788 - 510 pages
...believe, 90 " And with rehearsing would me more agrieve. " High towers, fair temples, goodly theaters, " Strong walls, rich porches, princely palaces, " Large...sepulchres, " Sure gates, sweet gardens, stately galleries, 95 " Wrought with fair pillors and fine imageries ; " All those (O pity !) now are turn'd to dust,... | |
 | English poets - 1801 - 382 pages
...conquest of their might and main, And made one meer of the earth and of their , reign ? — High tow'rs, fair temples, goodly theatres, Strong walls, rich...gardens, stately galleries, Wrought with fair pillars and rich imageries : All those, O pity ! now are turn'd to dust, And overgrown with black oblivion's rust.... | |
 | Architecture - 1809 - 340 pages
...be seen. A comprehensive view of its primitive splendour may be found in Spencer's Rules of Time : High towers, fair temples, goodly theatres, Strong...Wrought with fair pillars and fine imageries ; All those (O pity !) now are turn'd to dust, And overgrown with black oblivion's rust. THIS Prior; was... | |
 | John Milton, Henry John Todd - 1809 - 544 pages
...Time, where Verulam, comparing herfelf with Rome, defcribes " the beauty of her buildings fair ;" " High towers, fair temples, goodly theatres, " Strong walls, rich porches, princely palaces, " Large ftrcets, brave houfes, facrcd fepulchres, " Sure gates, f\wet*gardens, &c." DUNSTER. Ver. 35. On kvenfmall... | |
 | George Ellis - English poetry - 1811 - 472 pages
...conquest of their might and main, And made one meare * of the earth and of their reign ? — * * # * * * * High towers, fair temples, goodly theatres, Strong...Wrought with fair pillars and fine imageries : All those, O pity ! now are turn'd to dust, And overgrown with black oblivion's rust. — Where my high... | |
 | James Andrew Storer - Great Britain - 1818 - 222 pages
...be seen. A comprehensive view of its primitive splendour may be found in Spenser's Ruins of Time : High towers, fair temples, goodly theatres, Strong...Wrought with fair pillars and fine imageries ; All those (O pity !) now are turned to dust, And overgrown with black oblivion's rust. B UCKINGHAMSHIRE.... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 540 pages
...Time, where Verulam, comparing herself with Rome, describes " the beauty of her buildings fair;" " High towers, fair temples, goodly theatres, " Strong...princely palaces, " Large streets, brave houses, sacred sepi^chres, " Sure gates, sweet gardens, &c." DUNSTER. Ver. 35. On seven small hills,] Thus Virgil,... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...with conquest of their might and main, And made one meare (6) of the earth and of their reign ?— High towers, fair temples, goodly theatres, Strong...Wrought with fair pillars and fine imageries : All those, O pity ! now are turn'd to dust, And overgrown with black oblivion's rust.— Where my high... | |
 | 1835 - 428 pages
...an apartment hung all over from floor to ceiling, with storied draperies, depicting * " High towen, fair temples, goodly theatres; Strong walls, rich...galleries. Wrought with fair pillars, and fine imageries ; yet a higher, and indeed paramount object interposes between us and them. Most vividly have I in... | |
 | 1835 - 428 pages
...from floor to ceiling, with storied draperies, depicting THE PARTERRE. * " High towers, fair templet, goodly theatres Strong walls, rich porches, princely...galleries, Wrought with fair pillars, and fine imageries ; yet a higher, and indeed paramount object interposes between us and them. Most vividly have I in... | |
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