 | 1859 - Liczba stron: 894
...without the noise of axe or hammer. In the words of the Poet : — ' Ifo workman's ateel, no ponderous axes rung, ' Like some tall palm the noiseless fabric sprung, ' Majestic silence ! then the harp avvoke, ' The cymbal clanged, the deep voiced trumpet spoke : ' And Salem spread her suppliant arms... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1859 - Liczba stron: 512
...Heber's " Palestine," referring to the building of the Temple :— " No workman steel, no ponderous axes rung : Like some tall palm the noiseless fabric sprung ;— Majestic silence." (4) Lambent— from the Latin lambens, licking ; touching lightly, as if with the tongue. (5) Yetfrott-boimd~ie... | |
 | Robert Hay (of Wigan.) - 1865 - Liczba stron: 112
...Heber at once composed those fine lines which appear in that poem : — No workman steel, no ponderous axes rung ! Like some tall palm the noiseless fabric sprung. Majestic silence ! Heber's verse is not lacking in energy, but the most forcible passages are not lifted out of the... | |
 | Bourchier Wrey Savile - 1865 - Liczba stron: 310
...palace, then, in awful * state, The Temple reared its everlasting gate : No workman's steel, no ponderous axes rung! Like some tall palm the noiseless fabric sprung. Majestic silence ! Bishop Heber. IV. THE SEA-SHORE. |N every object here I see Something, O Lord, that leads to Thee.... | |
 | Jonathan Ashe - 1870 - Liczba stron: 372
...HEBER'S Palestine, 1st ed. This was altered, not advantageously, as I think, in later editions : — " No workman steel, no pond'rous axes rung ; Like some tall palm the noiseless fabric sprung." It is related that Sir Walter Scott breakfasted at Brazenose College, on the morning that Heber was... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1871 - Liczba stron: 348
...erection." Before the party broke up the lines had been added : " No workman's steel, no ponderous axes rung ; Like some tall palm the noiseless fabric sprung ; Majestic silence - " The prose essay on " Common Sense " was first recited from the rostrum in the Sheldonian theatre,... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1872 - Liczba stron: 440
...building. " Then in awful state The Temple reared its everlasting gate. No workman's steel, no ponderous axes rung ; Like some tall palm the noiseless fabric...Majestic silence ! then the harp awoke, The cymbal clanged, the deep-voiced trumpet spoke." It reminds us how we, the living stones of God's holy Temple,... | |
 | 1872 - Liczba stron: 588
...Parian stone : Yet here fair Science nursed her infant fire. FannM by the artist aid of friendly Tyre. Then towerd the palace, then in awful state. The temple rear'd its everlasting gate. No workman's steel, no pond'rous axes rung : Like some tall palm the noiseless fabric sprung. Majestic... | |
 | Religious tract society - 1873 - Liczba stron: 216
...fHKN towered the palace, then in awful state The temple reared its everlasting gate : No workman's steel, no pond'rous axes rung ; Like some tall palm...Majestic silence ! Then the harp awoke, The cymbal clanged, the deep-voiced trumpet spoke ; And Salem spread her suppliant arms abroad, Viewed the descending... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1873 - Liczba stron: 500
...palace, then in awful state The Temple reared its everlasting gate: No workman steel, no ponderous axes rung! Like some tall palm the noiseless fabric...Majestic silence! — then the harp awoke, The cymbal clanged, the deep-voiced trumpet spoke; And Salem spread her suppliant arms abroad, Viewed the descending... | |
| |
Science nurs'd her infant fire, Fann'd by the artist aid of friendly Tyre. Then tower'd the palace, then in awful state The Temple rear'd its everlasting gate. No workman steel, no pond'rous axes rung ; —— Like some tall palm the noiseless fabric... 
