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For he looked upon the city, every side, Far and wide, All the mountains topped with temples, all the glades' Colonnades, All the causeys, bridges, aqueducts,—and then, All the men!

From An Introduction to the Study of Browning by Symons, Arthur

All the causeys, bridges, aqueducts—and then All the men!

From Browning's Heroines by Armfield, Maxwell

But he looked upon the city, every side, Far and wide, All the mountains topped with temples, all the glades' Colonnades, All the causeys, bridges, aqueducts,—and then, All the men!

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

But he looked upon the city, every side, Far and wide, All the mountains topped with temples, all the glades' Colonnades, All the causeys, bridges, aqueducts—and then,65 All the men!

From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Reynolds, Myra

Instead of putting to death such criminals as had been sentenced to die by the judges, he made them repair the causeys, on which the respective cities to which they belonged were situated.

From The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) by Rollin, Charles