 But thou, of temples old, or altars new, Standest alone, with nothing like to thee — Worthiest of God, the holy and the true. Since Zion's desolation, when that He Forsook his former city, what could be, Of earthly structures, in his honour piled, Of...  A Universal Pronouncing Gazetteer: Containing Topographical, Statistical ... - Էջ 453Thomas Baldwin - 1846 - 648 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1861 - 1154 էջ
...philosophic mirth, I" hew the huge design which sprung from such a birth! CLIII. But In !— the dome — the vast and wondrous dome,* To which Diana's marvel was a cell — Christ s mighty shrine above his martyr's tomb ! 1 hnvF beheld the Ephcsian's miracle— It« columns... | |
 | Edwin Lee - 1861 - 472 էջ
...Nature no charm, and man no dwelling." From the hills beyond the malarious vale of Eaccano, is descried the "Vast and wond'rous dome, To which Diana's marvel was a cell," and soon after, crossing the Tiber at the Ponte Molle, the traveller arrives by the Via Flaminia at... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - 1862 - 382 էջ
...glittering mass i' the sun, and have survey'd Its sanctuary the while the usurping Moslem pray'd ; But thou, of temples old, or altars new, Standest alone, — with nothing like to thee, — Worthiest of God, the holy and the true. Since Zion's desolation, when that He Forsook his former... | |
 | Fifty celebrated men - 1862 - 354 էջ
...and constructed the cupola of St. Peter's — that matchless church, of which it has been said — Thou, of temples old, or altars new, Standest alone — with nothing like to thee — Worthiest of God, the holy and the true. Since Zion's desolation, when that He Forsook his former... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 էջ
...terror dumb, Or whispering, with white lips — " The foe ! They come ! they come !" THE CATHEDRAL. BUT thou, of temples old, or altars new, Standest alone — with nothing like to thee — Worthiest of God, the holy and the true. Since Zion's desolation, when that He Forsook His former... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears - 1870
...cathedral of the same apostle, the wonder of all succeeding generations ! VOlu XXI. — NO. XLI. 2 " But thou, of temples old, or altars new, Standest alone, with nothing like to thee — Worthiest of God, the holy and the true. Since Zion's desolation, when that He Forsook his former... | |
 | 1864 - 462 էջ
...the hand, or ever emanated from the mind, of any other painter. SAINT PETEE'S. — lo ! the dome — the vast and wondrous dome, To which Diana's marvel was a cell ! Enter : its grandeur overwhelms thee not ; And why ? it is not lesssened ; but thy mind, Expanded... | |
 | Henry George O'Shea - 1865 - 718 էջ
...would make it worthier than the huge Pagan temple of the following verses that were inspired by it — Thou of temples old or altars new, Standest alone— with nothing like to thee; Worthiest of God, the holy and the true. Since Zion's desolation, when that He Forsook his former city,... | |
 | 1872 - 976 էջ
...work of man ; it always appeared to him like some mighty natural creation ! Byron writes : — " But thou, of temples old, or altars new, Standest alone— with nothing like to thee — Worthiest of God, the holy and the true. Since Sion's desolation, when that He Forsook His former... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1866 - 138 էջ
...statues. Here is transacted the Customs business of the port of Venice. ST. PETER'S CATHEDRAL, ROME. "But thou, of temples old, or altars new, Standest alone, with nothing like to thee— Worthiest of God, the holy and the true. Since Zion's desolation, when that He Forsook his former city,... | |
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