 | John Milton - Epic poetry, English - 1759 - 608 pages
...the found Of dulcet fymphonies and voices fweet; Built like a temple, where pilafters round Were fet, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave; nor did there want Cornice or freeze, with body fculptures graven; The roof was fretted gold. Not Babylon, Nor great Alcairo,fuch... | |
 | Great Britain - 1829 - 696 pages
...they inhabit. Milton describes Pandemonium as a huge fabric, • " where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave; nor did there want Cornice or frieze, with bossy sculptures graven: The roof was fretted gold." The architecture of Mr. Burford, however, exhibits... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 278 pages
...dulcet fymphonies and voices fweet, » . Bulk Built like a temple, where pilafters round Were fet, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave ; nor did there want Cornice or freeze, with bofly fculptures graven j The roof was fretted gold. Not Babylon, Nor great Aleairo fuch... | |
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave; nor did there want Cornice or freeze, with bossy sculptures graven } The roof was fretted gold. Not Babylon, Nor great Alcairo such... | |
 | Gilbert Wakefield - 1796 - 382 pages
...gold. So A-filton, Par. Loft, i. 717. a pafljge ufeful to our poet in other parts of this poem : . Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave ; nor did there want Cornice or freeze, the boffy fculptures graven : The roof was fretted gold. Ver. 143. Asheav'n with ftars, the... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...sound v Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple,;where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid " With golden architrave; nor did there want Cornice or frieze, with bossy sculptures graven; The roof was fretted gold. Not Babylon, , Nor great Alcairo, such magnificence... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1806 - 788 pages
...to fwell Th« incenfc that he loves. ÇODTBÏT. . . ... Pilafters round Were fet, and Doric pillar« overlaid With golden architrave ; nor did there want Cornice or frieze, with bofly fciilpturcs graven ; The roof was fretted gold,— The afcending pile Stood £ied her ftately height... | |
 | England - 1841 - 862 pages
...the sound Of duleet symphonies and voices nweet, Huilt hke a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave; nor did there want Cornice or frieze, with bossy sculptures graven." Paradiee Lotl, bi There is a simple and awful grandeur in this picture, thatevinces... | |
 | John Milton - Fall of man - 1820 - 342 pages
...sound 710 Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave ; nor did there want Cornice or frieze, with bossy sculptures graven ; 715 The roof was fretted gold. Not Babylon, Nor great Alcairo, such magnificence... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...die sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, BuQt like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, triumph and rejoicing was in Heaven, When such was heard declared the Almighty's will ; Glory bossy sculptures graven : The roof was fretted gold. Not Babylon. Nor great AJcairo, such magnificence... | |
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Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet — Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave; nor did there want Cornice or... 
