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Poems: Now First Collected - Page 218
by Chandos Leigh - 1839 - 402 pages
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A Grateful Spirit and Other Sermons

James Vila Blake - Christian poetry - 1890 - 376 pages
...building, sinking far And self-withdrawn into a wondrous depth, Far sinking into splendor—without end ! Fabric it seemed of diamond and of gold, With...here, serene pavilions bright In avenues disposed ; their towers begirt With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars,—illumination of...
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The Complete Works of John Ruskin, Volume 14

John Ruskin - 1891 - 476 pages
...boldly say A wilderness of building, sinking far And self-withdrawn into a boundless depth, Far-sinking into splendour— without end ! Fabric it seemed of...pavilions bright, In avenues disposed ; there, towers bvgirt With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars — illumination of all gems ! By...
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Poems

William Wordsworth - 1897 - 648 pages
...mighty city — boldly say A wilderness of building, sinking far 10 And self-withdrawn into a boundless depth, Far sinking into splendour — without end...silver spires, And blazing terrace upon terrace, high 15 Uplifted ; here, serene pavilions bright, In avenues disposed ; there, towers begirt With battlements...
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Poems

William Wordsworth - 1897 - 648 pages
...mighty city — boldly say A wilderness of building, sinking far 10 And self-withdrawn into a boundless depth, Far sinking into splendour — without end...silver spires, And blazing terrace upon terrace, high . 15 Uplifted ; here, serene pavilions bright, In avenues disposed ; there, towers begirt With battlements...
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Poems

William Wordsworth - 1897 - 654 pages
...sinking far 10 And self-withdrawn into a boundless depth, Far sinking into splendour — without end 1 Fabric it seemed of diamond and of gold, With alabaster...silver spires, And blazing terrace upon terrace, high '5 Uplifted ; here, serene pavilions bright, In avenues disposed ; there, towers begirt With battlements...
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De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-eater

Thomas De Quincey - Readers - 1898 - 282 pages
...disclosed, Was of a mighty city — boldly say A wilderness of building, sinking far 10 And self-withdrawn into a wondrous depth, Far sinking into splendour...silver spires, And blazing terrace upon terrace, high 15 Uplifted ; here, serene pavilions bright, In avenues disposed ; there, towers begirt With battlements...
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The Confessions of an English Opium Eater: Being an Extract from the Life of ...

Thomas De Quincey - Authors, English - 1900 - 264 pages
...self-withdrawn into a wondrous depth, Far sinking into splendor — without end ! Fabric it seem'd of diamond, and of gold, With alabaster domes, and...silver spires, And blazing terrace upon terrace, high 25 Uplifted ; here, serene pavilions bright With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars...
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The Life of Christ

William James Dawson - 1901 - 484 pages
...silver and crowned with battlements of gold. This visionary city of impossible Miltonic splendor, " With alabaster domes and silver spires And blazing terrace upon terrace, high Uplifted," was to become the new and last metropolis of the entire earth. Rome herself, and all the millions of...
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The Man Christ Jesus: A Life of Christ

William James Dawson - 1901 - 510 pages
...silver and crowned with battlements of gold. This visionary city of impossible Miltonic splendour, " With alabaster domes and silver spires And blazing terrace upon terrace, high Uplifted," was to become the new and last metropolis of the entire earth. Rome herself, and all the millions of...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 234

Literature - 1902 - 916 pages
...wilderness of building, sinking far And self-withdrawn into a boundless depth Far sinking into splendor— without end. Fabric it seemed of diamond and of gold,...towers begirt With battlements that on their restless points Bore stars— illumination of all gems. Undeniably dull, deserving critical condemnation, but...
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