 | John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...guld. Not Bahylon, Nor great Aleairo such magnificence — EqualTd in all their glories, to inslmne Belus or Serapis their gods, or seat , Their kings,...when Egypt with Assyria strove In wealth and luxury. Th' ascending pile Stood fiVd her stately height; and strait the doors Opening their hrazen fulds,... | |
 | John Walker - Names in the Bible - 1804 - 330 pages
...P.mderaomuni : -Not Babylon Nor great Alcairo such magnificence Equal'd in all their glories to enshrine Beim or Serapis their gods ; or seat Their kings, when...with Assyria strove, In wealth and luxury. Par. Lost, bi v-717, -т Sergiolus. — I find this word in no dictionary but Lempriere's, and here the tccent... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...architrave; nor did there want Cornice or frieze, with bossy sculptures graven; The roof was fretted gold. Not Babylon, , Nor great Alcairo, such magnificence Equall'd in all their glories, to inshrine Belus or Serapis their Gods, or seat Their kings, when Egypt with Assyria strove In wealth... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...architrave ; nor did there want Cornice or freeze, with bossy sculptures graven : The roof was fretted gold. Not Babylon, Nor great Alcairo, such magnificence...when Egypt with Assyria strove In wealth and luxury. The ascending pile Stood fix'd her stately highth : and straight the doors, Opening their brazen folds,... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...sculptures graven; The roof was fretted gold. Not Babylon, Kor great Alcairo, such magnificence Equal'd in all their glories, to enshrine Belus or Serapis their Gods, or seat 720 Their kings, when Egypt with Assyria strove In wealth and luxury. Th' ascending pile Stood fiVd... | |
 | England - 1832 - 1102 pages
...bridge," in their acceptation was understood to imply the utmost plenitude of sublunary grandeur ; " not Babylon, Nor great Alcairo, such magnificence Equall'd in all their glories." This too at a time when the Thames was allowed to steal through the town.like Bayes' army," in disguise,"... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...or frieze, with bossy sculptures graven : The roof was fretted gold. Not Babylon. Nor great AJcairo, lory to him, whose just avenging The ascending pile Stood Cx'd her stately height: and straight the doors, Opening their brazen folds,... | |
 | John Milton - Fall of man - 1820 - 342 pages
...fretted gold. Not Babylon, Nor great Alcairo, such magnificence EqualPd in all their glories, to inshrine Belus or Serapis their Gods, or seat Their kings, when Egypt with Assyria strove T2 In wealth and luxury. Th' ascending pile Stood fix'd her stately height ; and straight the doors,... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1821 - 226 pages
...sculptures graven : The roof was fretted gold. Not Babylon, Nor great Alcairo, such magnificence Equal'd in all their glories, to enshrine Belus or Serapis,...when Egypt .with Assyria strove In wealth and luxury. The ascending pile Stood fix'd her stately highth : and straight the doors, Opening their brazen folds,... | |
 | William Read - Gambling - 1821 - 224 pages
...VERSAILLES Not Babylon, Nor great Alcairo, such magnificence Equalled in all their glories, to inshrine Belus or Serapis, their Gods, or seat Their Kings...when Egypt with Assyria strove In wealth and luxury. MILTON. VERSAILLES A SKETCH ADDRESSED TO HSB How often, like a gem unsought, Or starting, like a happy... | |
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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,... 
