 So saying, he caught him up, and, without wing Of hippogrif, bore through the air sublime, Over the wilderness and o'er the plain; Till underneath them fair Jerusalem, The holy city, lifted high her towers, And higher yet the glorious temple rear'd Her...  The Oldest of the Old World - Page 167by Sophia May Eckley - 1860 - 300 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...fair Jerusalem, The holy city, lifted high her towers; And higher yet the glorious temple rear'd Her pile, far off appearing like a mount Of alabaster, topt with golden spires. There, on the highest pinnacle, he set The Son of God; and added thus in scorn: " There stand, if thou... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...through the air sublime, Over the wilderness and o'er the plain, Till underneath them fair Jerusalem, The holy city, lifted high her towers ; And higher yet the glorious temple rear'd Her pile, far off appearing like a mount Of alabaster, topt with golden spires. There, on the... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1823 - 220 pages
...through the air sublime, Over the wilderness and o'er the plain, Till underneath them fair Jerusalem, The holy city lifted high her towers, And higher yet the glorious temple rear'd Her pile, far off appearing like a mount Of alabaster, topp'd with golden spires: There on the... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 360 pages
...through the air sublime Over the wilderness and o'er the plain ; Till underneath them fair Jerusalem, The holy city lifted high her towers, And higher yet the glorious temple rear'd S4S Her pile, far off appearing like a mount Of alabaster, topt with golden spires : There on... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 540 pages
...Jerusalem, The holy city, lifted high her towers, 545 And higher yet the glorious temple rear'd Her pile, far off appearing like a mount Of alabaster, topt with golden spires : There, on the highest pinnacle, he set The Son of God; and added thus in scorn. 550 Ver. 545. The... | |
 | John Milton - 1829 - 426 pages
...through the air suhlime Over the wilderness and o'er the plain ; Till underneath them fair Jerusalem, The holy city, lifted high her towers, And higher yet the glorious temple rear'd Her 'pile, far off appearing like a mount Of alahaster, topp'd with golden spires-: There on... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Theology - 1833 - 892 pages
...of John Martin has thrown a kind of gorgeousness of sublimity, — "underneath them fair Jerusalem, The holy city, lifted high her towers, And higher yet the glorious temple reared Her pile, far off appearing like a mount Of alabaster, lopped with golden spires." We have made considerable... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...through the air sublime, Over the wilderness and o'er the plain, Till underneath them fair Jerusalem, en the force Of subterranean wind transports a hill Tom from Pelorus, or rear'd Her pile, far off appearing like a mount Of alabaster, topt with golden spires : There on the... | |
 | 1842 - 620 pages
...the air sublime, Over the wilderness — and o'er the plain : Till underneath them fair Jerusalem, The holy city, lifted high her towers, And higher yet the glorious temple — rear'd Her pile, far off appearing like a mount Of alabaster, topt with golden spires." Splendid... | |
 | John George Cochrane - 1842 - 596 pages
...through the air sublime, Over the wilderness—and o'er the plain : Till underneath them fair Jerusalem, The holy city, lifted high her towers, And higher yet the glorious temple—rear'd Her pile, far off appearing like a mount Of alabaster, topt with golden spires." Splendid... | |
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