 battlements that on their restless fronts bore stars " — might have been copied from my architectural dreams, for it often occurred. We hear it reported of Dryden, and of Fuseli in modern times, that they thought proper to eat raw meat for the sake...  The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine - Page 1321911Full view - About this book
 | Thomas De Quincey - Authors, English - 1890 - 494 pages
...vapours had receded, taking there Their station under a cerulean sky." The sublime circumstance — " that on their restless fronts bore stars " — might have been copied from my own architectural dreams, so often did it occur. We hear it reported of Dryden, and in later times... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Readers - 1898 - 282 pages
...vapours had receded, taking there Their station under a cerulean sky." 25 The sublime circumstance — " that on their restless fronts bore stars " — might have been copied from my own architectural dreams, so often did it occur. We hear it reported of Dryden, and in later times... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pages
...summits, whereunto The vapors had receded — taking there Their station under a cerulean sky, etc. i The sublime circumstance — " battlements that on...from my architectural dreams, for it often occurred. To my architecture succeeded dreams of lakes and silvery expanses of water : these haunted me so much,... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 554 pages
...summits, whereunto The vapors had receded — taking there Their station under a cerulean sky, etc. The sublime circumstance — " battlements that on...have been copied from my architectural dreams, for it oftea occurred. To my architecture succeeded dreams of lakes and silvery expanses of water : these... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - English essays - 1900 - 454 pages
...wilderness of building, sinking far And self-withdrawn into a wondrous depth, Far sinking into splendor — without end ! Fabric it seemed of diamond, and of...from my architectural dreams, for it often occurred. We hear it reported of Dryden, and of Fuseli in modern times, that they thought proper to eat raw meat... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - English literature - 1902 - 448 pages
...wilderness of building, sinking far And self-withdrawn into a wondrous depth, Far sinking into splendor — without end ! Fabric it seemed of diamond, and of...from my architectural dreams, for it often occurred. We hear it reported of Dryden, and of Fuseli in modern times, that they thought proper to eat raw meat... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English prose literature - 1909 - 574 pages
...summits, whereunto The vapours had receded — taking there Their station under a cerulean sky, etc., etc. The sublime circumstance — "battlements that on...from my architectural dreams, for it often occurred. We hear it reported of Dryden, and of Fuselli in modern times, that they thought proper to eat raw... | |
 | Literature - 1911 - 982 pages
...had receded, taking there Their station under a cerulean sky. The sublime circumstance—"battlements that on their restless fronts bore stars,"— might...finest plates are the etchings of the great temples at Piestum, which was originally a Greek colony, and came under Roman domination. These temples, built... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - English essays - 1911 - 428 pages
...vapours had receded — taking there Their station under a cerulean sky. The sublime circumstance — " that on their restless fronts bore stars " — might have been copied from my own architectural dreams, so often did it occur. We hear it reported of Dryden, and in later times... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Opium abuse - 1913 - 304 pages
...himself cheated Into cordial admiration, by the splendour of the verses. The sublime circumstance — ' that on their restless fronts bore stars ' — might have been copied from my own architectural dreams, so often did it occur. We hear it reported of Dryden, and in later times... | |
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