 | Richard Green Parker - 1835 - Liczba stron: 158
...manage the emphasis, slur, and expression, in the manner in which he has heretofore been directed. 752. How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose...marble heads, • . To bear aloft its arch'd* and ponderous roof, By its own weight made steadfast and immoveable, Looking tranquillity ! It strikes... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1835 - Liczba stron: 472
...No, all is hnsh'd and still as death.— 'Tis dreadful ! How reverend is the face of this tall pite, Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and ponderous roof, By its own weight made stedfast and immoveable, Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1836 - Liczba stron: 328
...step of Bel's false priest, track'd in his fane of old.2 i [" All it hush'd, and still as death—'tin dreadful! How reverend is the face of this tall pile,...rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and ponderous roof, By its own weight made steadfast and immovable, Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1836 - Liczba stron: 746
...then he burst out with his usual warmth : — " How reverend is the face of this tall pile, \Vhose ancient pillars rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and ponderous roof, By its own weight made stedfast and immoveable, Looking tranquillity*." " I allow all... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1903 - Liczba stron: 542
...Whistling through hollows of this vaulted aisle. We'll listen. Leon. — Hark ! Aim — No ; all is hushed and still as death. 'Tis dreadful ! How reverend is...pile, Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads 344 To bear aloft its arched and ponderous roof, By its own weight made steadfast and immovable, Looking... | |
 | John N. Crawford - 1903 - Liczba stron: 442
...by Dr. Johnson to be the finest poetical passage he had ever read. It is a description of a temple. How reverend is the face of this tall pile ; Whose...rear their marble heads To bear aloft its arch'd and ponderous roof, By its own weight made stedfast and immovable, Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an... | |
 | Robert Naylor Whiteford - 1903 - Liczba stron: 464
...Cf. Congreve's description of the interior of a cathedral in his " The Mourning Bride," Act II. i : "Tis dreadful ! How reverend is the face of this tall...pillars rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arched and ponderous roof, By its own weight made steadfast and immoveable, Looking tranquillity !... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1903 - Liczba stron: 308
...this vaulted aisle. We'll listen. Leonora. Hark ! Almeria. No, all is hushed and still as death. "Pis dreadful. How reverend is the face of this tall pile,...pillars rear their marble heads To bear aloft its arched and ponderous roof, By its own weight made steadfast and immovable, Looking tranquillity ! It... | |
 | Walter Matthew Gallichan - 1903 - Liczba stron: 320
...suicides. A number of despairing persons have thrown themselves from its summit. CHAPTER V The Cathedral ' How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose...pillars rear their marble heads To bear aloft its arched and ponderous roof, By its own weight made steadfast and immovable, Looking tranquillity.' —... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - Liczba stron: 522
...the interior of a cathedral : — ALMERIA : " No, all is hush'd and still as death— 'Tis dreadful I How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose...pillars rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arched and ponderous roof, By its own weight made steadfast and immovable, Looking tranquillity ! It... | |
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Looking tranquillity ! it strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart. 
