| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...beyond all glory ever seen By waking sense or by the dreaming soul— The appearance instantaneously disclosed, Was of a mighty city — boldly say A wilderness...sinking into splendour — without end ! Fabric it seem'd of diamond and of gold, With alabaster domes and silver spires ; And blazing terrace upon terrace... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - Alps - 1846 - 444 pages
...beyond all glory ever seen By waking sense, or by the dreaming soul. The appearance, instantaneously disclosed, Was of a Mighty City,— boldly say A wilderness...of building, sinking far, And self-withdrawn into a wonderous depth, Far sinking into splendor without end ! Fabric it seemed of diamond and of gold, With... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - Alps - 1846 - 430 pages
...ever seen By waking sense, or by the dreaming soul. The appearance, instantaneously disclosed, howWas of a Mighty City,— boldly say A wilderness of building, sinking far, And self-withdrawn into a wonderous depth, Far sinking into splendor without end ! Fabric it seemed of diamond and of gold, With... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 560 pages
...clouds, what in many of its circumstances I saw frequently e sleep. " The appearance, instantaneously disclosed, Was of a mighty city — boldly say A wilderness...sinking into splendour — without end ! Fabric it seem'd of diamond, and of gold, With alabaster domes, and silver spires, And blazing terrace upon terrace,... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1847 - 560 pages
...beyond all glory ever seen By waking sense, or by the dreaming soul ! The appearance, instantaneously disclosed, Was of a Mighty City,— boldly say A Wilderness...self-withdrawn into a wondrous depth, Far sinking into splendor without end ! Fabric it seemed of diamond and of Gold, With alabaster domes and silver spires,... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1847 - 404 pages
...beyond all glory ever seen By waking sense or by the dreaming soul ! The appearance, instantaneously disclosed, / Was of a mighty city — boldly say |...building, sinking far ; And self-withdrawn into a boundless depth, i Far sinking into splendor — without end ! Fabric it seemed of diamond and of coW,... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1847 - 404 pages
...beyond all glory ever seen By waking sense or by the dreaming soul ! The appearance, instantaneously disclosed, Was of a mighty city — boldly say A wilderness...of building, sinking far And self-withdrawn into a boundless depth, Far sinking into splendor — without end !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,... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - Opium abuse - 1847 - 270 pages
...clouds, what in many of its circumstances I saw frequently in sleep : The appearance, instantaneously disclosed, Was of a mighty city— boldly say A wilderness of building, sinking far And eelf-withdrawn into a wondrous depth, Far sinking into splendour— without end ! Fabric it seem'd... | |
| Sir James Stephen, Thomas Noon Talfourd - English essays - 1848 - 356 pages
...beyond all glory ever seen By waking sense or by the dreaming soul — The appearance instantaneously disclosed, Was of a mighty city — boldly say A wilderness...splendour— without end ! Fabric it seemed of diamond аnd of gold, U'itli alabaster domes and silver spires ; And blazing terrace upon terrace high Uplifted:... | |
| 1848 - 916 pages
...like the majestic pageant so nobly described by Wordsworth : — " The appearance, instantaneously disclosed, Was of a mighty city — boldly say A wilderness...of building, sinking far And self-withdrawn into a boundless depth, • Far sinking into splendour — without end ! Fabric it seem'd of diamond and of... | |
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