 | William Dowling - 1857 - 412 pagine
...contracts the space That lies between, and first salutes the place Crown'd with that sacred pile,f so vast, so high, That whether 'tis a part of earth...thought a proud Aspiring mountain, or descending cloud ; * Cooper's Hill. f Old St. Paul's. Paul's, the late theme of such a Muse,* whose flight Has bravely... | |
 | Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham - 1857 - 380 pagine
...swift as thought, contracts the space That lies between, and' first salutes the place Crown'd with that sacred pile, so vast, so high, That, whether...or sky, Uncertain seems, and may be thought a proud \ 216 DENHAM'S POETICAL WOKKS. Paul's, the late theme of such a Muse,1 whose flight 19 Has bravely... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 478 pagine
...following passage of his Cooper's Hill : — " That sacred pile, so vast, so high, That whether it 'sa part of earth or sky, Uncertain seems, and may be...thought a proud Aspiring mountain, or descending cloud ; Paul's, the late name of such a muse whose flight Has bravely reach'd and soar'd above thy height... | |
 | Belgravia - 1866 - 552 pagine
...edifice,' and prayed that he might live to see it destroyed. Denham the poet sang its praises, and says : ' That sacred pile, so vast, so high, That whether 'tis...earth or sky Uncertain seems, and may be thought a prond Aspiring mountain or descending cloud.' Waller too, ever the courtier, interscored his eulogy... | |
 | Henry Hart Milman - 1868 - 588 pagine
...Restoration, in his ' Cooper's Hill ' imagines that his poetic eye First salutes the place Crown'd with that sacred pile, so vast, so high, That whether 'tis...thought a proud Aspiring mountain, or descending cloud. Paul's, the late theme of such a Muse, whose flight, Has bravely reached, and soared above thy height.... | |
 | Charles Debrille Poston - 1868 - 122 pagine
...of the structure is obscured by the fog : — "That sacred pile, so vast, so high, That whether its part of earth or sky Uncertain seems, and may be thought a proud Aspiring mountain, or descending cloud." In the crypt are monuments to Nelson, Cornwallis, Packenham, Wellington, and many of the most illustrious... | |
 | Henry Hart Milman - 1869 - 588 pagine
...Restoration, in his ' Cooper's Hill ' imagines that his poetic eye First salutes the place Crown'd with that sacred pile, so vast, so high, That whether 'tis...thought a proud Aspiring mountain, or descending cloud. Paul's, the late theme of such a Muse, whose flight, Has bravely reached, and soared above thy height.... | |
 | 1914 - 540 pagine
...origin from that fact.2 A higher note is struck by Sir John Denham in his poem ' Cooper's Hill ' : ' That sacred pile so vast, so high That whether 'tis...thought a proud Aspiring mountain, or descending cloud. Now shalt thou stand, though sword or time or fire Or zeal more fierce than they thy fall conspire!... | |
 | Charles Anderton Read - 1879 - 404 pagine
...Tramlations, with the Sophy, a Tragedy. That lies between, and first salutes the place Crowned with that sacred pile,* so vast, so high, That whether...thought a proud Aspiring mountain, or descending cloud. . . . Under his proud survey the city lies, And like a mist beneath a hill doth rise; Whose state and... | |
 | George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - 604 pagine
...of the restoration of St. Paul's, began by Charles I. : — " First salutes the place, Crowned with that sacred pile, so vast, so high, That whether 'tis...thought a proud Aspiring mountain or descending cloud. Paul's, the late theme of such a muse, whose flight Has bravely reached and soared above thy height,... | |
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