C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Spire
Magnific walls, and heaven-assaulting spires.
Smart.
Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise?
Pope.
Dyer.
These pointed spires, that wound the ambient sky.
Prior.
Nought but the heaven-directed spire.
Wordsworth.
Young.
The tapering pyramid,—whose spiky top has wounded the thick cloud.
Blair.
Thy best type, desire of the sad heart,—the heaven-ascending spire.
Bulwer-Lytton.
Yon towers, whose wanton tops do buss the clouds.
Shakespeare.
Wordsworth.
Prior.
Rogers.
Mrs. Hemans.
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.