 The imperial palace, compass huge and high The structure, skill of noblest architects, With gilded battlements, conspicuous far, Turrets, and terraces, and glittering spires.  Notes and Queries - Page 271855Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1864 - 584 pages
...stately head " On the Tarpeian rock,- — her citadel "Impregnable; and there Mount Palatine, 50 " The imperial palace, compass huge, and high " The...far, ' ' Turrets, and terraces, and glittering spires : " Many a fair edifice besides, more like " Houses of Gods, (so well I have disposed " My airy microscope,)... | |
 | Clement Moore Butler - 1865 - 308 pages
...the spoils enriched Of nations; there the Capitol thou seest Above the rest lifting his stately head On the Tarpeian rock, her citadel .Impregnable; and...far, Turrets, and terraces, and glittering spires; Many a fair edifice besides, more like Houses of gods, so well I have disposed My aery microscope,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...the spoils enrich'd Of nations : there the Capitol thou seest Above the rest lifting his stately head On the Tarpeian rock, her citadel Impregnable ; and...far, Turrets and terraces, and glittering spires. Many a fair edifice besides, more like Houses of gods, (so well I have disposed My aery microscope,)... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 708 pages
...spoils enrich'd Of nations : there the Capitol thou seest, Above the rest lifting his stately head On the Tarpeian rock, her citadel Impregnable; and...far, Turrets, and terraces, and glittering spires: Many a fair edifice besides, more like Houses of gods, (so well I have disposed My aery microscope,)... | |
 | Charles Richard Weld - Roma (Italia) - 1865 - 666 pages
...fanciful is Milton's vision of the glorious edifices which formerly crowned this far-famed hill : On Mount Palatine The imperial palace, compass huge,...far, Turrets, and terraces, and glittering spires: Many a fair edifice besides, more like Houses of Gods (so well I have disposed My airy microscope)... | |
 | George Bradshaw - 1865 - 454 pages
...After the great fire it was rebuilt by Nero, under the name of the Domus Aurea, or Golden House. "Tho Imperial Palace ; compass huge, and high The structure; skill of noblest architects. With gilded battleinenta conspicuous far, Turrets and terraces."— .Wilton. Though injured by the Vandals, it... | |
 | George Bradshaw - 1865 - 408 pages
...EsqulILLUSTRATED fraat fire it was rebnnt by Nero, under the name of the Domus Aurea, or Golden House. " The Imperial Palace ; compass huge, and high The structure; skill of noblest architects, \Vitn gilded battlements conspicuous far, Turrets and terraces."— Milton, Thongh injured by the Vandals,... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pages
...spoils enriched of nations. There the Capitol thou seest, above the- rest lifting his stately head on the Tarpeian rock, her citadel impregnable ; and...far, turrets and terraces, and glittering spires. Many a fair edifice besides, more like houses of gods than men, thou mayest behold: outside and inside... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1866
...dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there." And yet this is the place Milton truly describes as once " Mount Palatine The imperial palace, compass huge,...conspicuous far, Turrets and terraces and glittering spires. " If we may accept the legend of tineas and his companions from Troy as containing any germ of truth,... | |
 | 1866 - 410 pages
...lifting his stately head On the Tarpeian rock, her citadel Impregnable, and there mount Palatine, a> Th' imperial palace, compass huge, and high The structure,...far, Turrets, and terraces, and glittering spires. Many a fair edifice besides, more like -» Houses of gods — so well I have dispos'd My aery microscope... | |
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