pleasure-dome

In 1798, the poet dreamed of an all-powerful ruler who ordered the creation of “a stately pleasure-dome.”

When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

In 1798, the poet dreamed of an all-powerful ruler who ordered the creation of “a stately pleasure-dome.”

When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

In 1798, the poet dreamed of an all-powerful ruler who ordered the creation of “a stately pleasure-dome.”

When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

And Bolsover Castle, a seventeenth century pleasure-dome, is particularly worth a visit.

Chasing nymphs around a pool 2006

Keeping in mind the situation in "Time and the Gods" -- in which Time destroys the gods' pleasure-dome -- and what we've seen of the "mild gods of Earth" in "Strange High House in the Mist," none of these options sound particularly good for Hub City.

Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2007

It begins with these lines: “In Xanadu did Kubla Khan/A stately pleasure-dome decree….

"Kubla Khan" 2002

Lines, altered by ego, crept into the observer's mind from some forgotten source: In Xanadu did Garrison a stately pleasure-dome decree ...

Psychosphere Lumley, Brian 1984

The last bey of Constantina, not knowing that he was merely building for the occupancy of the French governors who were to come after him, decreed himself, some fifty years ago, a stately pleasure-dome, after the fashion of Kubla Khan.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 Various

Sinbad found in the roc's valley, -- like the palace of the fairies in the dreams of childhood, -- like the stately pleasure-dome of Kubla Khan in

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 Various

Viewed from afar it had seemed a vast pleasure-dome of infinite enchantment.

Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail Henry Herbert Knibbs 1909