 | Owen Williams - English drama - 1828 - 930 pages
...Well listen— Leon. Hark! Aim. No, all is hush'd, and still as deathi — 'tis dreadful! How rev'rend is the face of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillars rear their marble beads. To bear aloft its arch and pond'rous roof, By its own weight made stedfast and im moveable,... | |
 | Hunting - 1828 - 560 pages
...aisle of the Temple, she thus addresses Leonora : — " How rev Vend is the face of this toll pue, Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads To bear aloft its arch'd »nd ponderous roof, By its own weight made steadfast and immovable, Looking tranquillity ! It strikes... | |
 | Owen Williams - English drama - 1828 - 912 pages
...is the face of this tall pile, Wbosc ancient pillars rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch and pond'rous roof, By its own weight made stedfast and immoveable, Looking tranquillity. It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight: the tombs And monumental caves of death... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 396 pages
...himself, remains immovable, and smiles at the madness of the dance about him ! Drydea. How revered is the face of this tall pile. Whose ancient pillars...roof, By its own weight made stedfast and immoveable. Congrew. Immovably firm to their duty, when they could have no prospect of reward. Atterbury. IMMU'NITY,... | |
 | George Pepper - Ireland - 1829 - 486 pages
...Mpurning Brute,' while she is in the Cathedral : — " No — all is hush'd and still as death. — 'Tis dreadful ! How reverend is the face of this tall...rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and ponderous roof, By its own weight made steadfast and immovcable ; Looking tranquillity ! It strikes... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1884 - 820 pages
...the great cathedral on the awe-struck beholder : " All is hushed and still as death. 'Tis dreadful I How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillars rear their marble beads To bear aloft its arched and ponderous roof, By its own weight made steadfast and immovable,... | |
 | Cecil Ferard Armstrong - Literary Criticism - 1913 - 384 pages
...paragraph in the whole mass of English poetry," and to be finer than anything that Shakespeare ever wrote. '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 immovable, Looking tranquillity ! It... | |
 | John Rutledge Scott - Elocution - 1915 - 692 pages
...lines. Increasing Tremor of Fright through the last six lines. Now all is hushed and still as death! 'Tis dreadful! How reverend is the face of this tall...pillars rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arched and ponderous roof, Looking tranquillity. It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight! The... | |
 | John Rutledge Scott - 1915 - 694 pages
...lines. Increasing Tremor of Fright through the last six lines. Now all is hushed and still as death! 'Tis dreadful! How reverend is the face of this tall...pillars rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arched and ponderous roof, Looking tranquillity. It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight! The... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 828 pages
...hollows of this vaulted aisle: We'll listen — Leo. Hark! Aim. No, all is hush'd and still as death. — upholder and preserver, carrying everywhere with him...of difference of soil and climate, of language and ponderous roof, By its own weight made steadfast and immoveable, Looking tranquillity ! It strikes... | |
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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. 
