Careful Words

dome (n.)

The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian dome

Outlives in fame the pious fool that rais'd it.

Colley Cibber (1671-1757): Richard III. (altered). Act iii. Sc. 1.

The hand that rounded Peter's dome,

And groined the aisles of Christian Rome,

Wrought in a sad sincerity;

Himself from God he could not free;

He builded better than he knew:

The conscious stone to beauty grew.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882): The Problem.

Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense

Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.

John Dryden (1631-1701): Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 868.

Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,

Stains the white radiance of eternity.

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822): Adonais. lii.

  No gilded dome swells from the lowly roof to catch the morning or evening beam; but the love and gratitude of united America settle upon it in one eternal sunshine. From beneath that humble roof went forth the intrepid and unselfish warrior, the magistrate who knew no glory but his country's good; to that he returned, happiest when his work was done. There he lived in noble simplicity, there he died in glory and peace. While it stands, the latest generations of the grateful children of America will make this pilgrimage to it as to a shrine; and when it shall fall, if fall it must, the memory and the name of Washington shall shed an eternal glory on the spot.

Edward Everett (1794-1865): Oration on the Character of Washington.

Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,

Stains the white radiance of eternity.

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822): Adonais. lii.

The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto ii. Stanza 6.