...severely great.' " So thought not one who viewed it with a poet's, rather than " a critic's eye." " Simple, erect, severe, austere, sublime ; Shrine of all saints, and temple of all gods. Glorious dome ! Shalt thou not last ? Time's scythe and tyrant's rod Shrverupon thee — sanctuary...

...been in no other degree altered from its original form. Well might Byron term it " the pride of Rome." "Simple, erect, severe, austere, sublime — Shrine of all saints, and temple of all gods." The palaces of Rome, though frequently untenanted by the noble families whose names they bear, contain...

...ever studious of ancient beauty, introduced their design as a model in the Catholic church." 330 " Simple, erect, severe, austere, sublime — Shrine...temple of all gods, From Jove to Jesus— spared and bless'd by time, Looking tranquillity, while falls or nods Arch, empire, each thing round thee, and...

...more than one divinity. Byron, who celebrates in a well-known passage the Pantheon of Agrippa as : Shrine of all saints and temple of all Gods, From Jove to Jesus — , might almost, had he known, have used similar words in describing the Ida of his boyhood, upon...

...the solemn anthems of the Church. And thus this relic of the past, of which Byron speaks, as the " Shrine of all saints, and temple of all gods From Jove to Jesus" — remains an enduring monument of the triumph of our faith. Its transformation shows the result of...

...Ruin past Redemption's skill, The World, the same wide den — of thieves, or what ye will. CXLVI. Simple, erect, severe, austere, sublime — Shrine...glorious dome ! Shalt thou not last? Time's scythe and tyrants' rods Shiver upon thce — sanctuary and home Of art and piety — Pantheon ! — pride of...

...overwhelming, and will be best understood, perhaps, from the following celebrated lines from Childe Harold : " Simple, erect, severe, austere, sublime — Shrine...temple of all gods, From Jove to Jesus — spared and blessed by time ; Looking tranquillity, while falls or nods Arch, empire, each thing round thee, and...

...Peter's, compared to its actual size. But in the Pantheon every concomitant is present, to make it "Simple, erect, severe, austere, sublime, — Shrine...temple of all Gods From Jove to Jesus — spared and blessed by Time ; Looking tranquillity ! " Passing out of the Pantheon, you will find the step to the...

...World, the same wide den — of thieves, or what ye CXLVI. Simple, erect, severe, austere, sublimeShrine of all saints and temple of all gods, From Jove to Jesus — spared and blest by time ;M Looking tranquillity, while falls or nods Arch, empire, each ihing round thce, and man plods His...

...sky-lighted dome, there is an impression of simple grandeur, which even St. Peter's does not produce : "Simple, erect, severe, austere, sublime — Shrine of all saints, and temple of all gods." An inscription on the frieze records that the Pantheon was erected by Agrippa, B. c. Anno 26 : M. Agrippa...