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| Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?. |
| Spire |
| To point to the starry heavens with a tapering top. Ovid.—Meta., Book X. Fable III. (Riley’s Transl.) | 1 |
| Cloud-kissing turrets—spires that seem to kiss the clouds. Heywood.—Four London Apprentices. | 2 |
| Yon tower-capp’d Acropolis, Which seems the very clouds to kiss. Byron.—Siege of Corinth, Div. I. last two Lines. | 3 |
| Yon towers, whose wanton tops do buss the clouds. Shakespeare.—Troilus and Cressida, Act IV. Scene 5. | 4 |
| Under a starry-pointing pyramid. Milton.—Epitaph on Shakespeare. | 5 |
| Pyramid pointing to the stars. Wordsworth.—Vol. V. Page 80, Line 14. | 6 |
| These pointed spires, that wound the ambient sky. Prior.—Solomon, a poem, Book III. Line 770. | 7 |
| The tapering pyramid—— Whose spiky top has wounded the thick cloud. Blair.—The Grave, Line 190. | 8 |
| Magnific walls, and heaven-assaulting spires. Smart.—Power of the Supreme Being. | 9 |
| The village church, among the trees, Where first our marriage-vows were given, With merry peals shall swell the breeze, And point with taper spire to heaven. Rogers.—A Wish, a poem, Verse 4. | 10 |
| An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches in flat countries with spire-steeples; which, as they cannot be referred to any other object, point as with silent finger to the sky and stars. S. T. Coleridge.—The Friend, No. 14, Page 223. | 11 |
| Ye swelling hills and spacious plains! Besprent from shore to shore with steeple tow’rs, And “spires whose silent finger points to heav’n.” Wordsworth.—The Excursion, Verse 17. | 12 |
| Who taught the heaven-directed spire to rise? Pope.—Moral Essays, Epi. III. Line 261. (To Bathurst.) | 13 |
| Nought but the heaven-directed spire. Wordsworth.—Vol. V. Page 84, Line 8. | 14 |
| Rushing from the woods, the spires Seem from hence ascending fires! Dyer.—Grongar Hill, Line 51. | 15 |
| How the tall temples, as to meet their God, Ascend the skies! Dr. Young.—Night VI. Line 781. | 16 |
| Where’er a spire points up to heaven, Through storm and summer air, Telling that all around have striven, Man’s heart, and hope, and prayer. Mrs. Hemans.—Themes of Song, Page 534. | 17 |
| View not this spire by measure given, To buildings raised by common hands; That fabric rises high as heaven, Whose basis on devotion stands. Prior.—On a Column in Halstead Church. | 18 |
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