 | Augustus Bozzi Granville - Europe - 1828 - 660 pages
...is hush'd and still as death I 'tis dreadful ! How reverend is the face of this tall pile, A\Tiose ancient pillars rear their marble heads To bear aloft its arch'd and pond'rous roof, Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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
...in the Cathedral : — " No — all is hush'd and still as death. — 'Tis dreadful ! How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillars...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... | |
 | Edinburgh encyclopaedia - 1830 - 828 pages
...• Lean. Hark!— А/ ¡л. No, all ¡a hushed, and still as death.— 'Tia dreadful. " How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arched and pond'rous roof; By its own weight made btedfast and ¡mmoveable, Looking tranquillity !... | |
 | Publius Cornelius Tacitus - 1831 - 364 pages
...oaks as his occasion required. No, all is hush'd, and still as death :—'tis dreadful! How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillars...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... | |
 | John Galt - Actors - 1831 - 336 pages
...interior of a cathedral : — " Now all is hush'd, and still as death,— 'tis dreadful ! How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillars...rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and ponderous roof, • Looking tranquillity. It strikes an awe And terror to my aching sight ; the tombs... | |
 | John Galt - Actors - 1831 - 332 pages
...interior of a cathedral: — " Now all is hush'd, and still as death, — 'tis dreadful ! How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillars...rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and ponderous roof, Looking tranquillity. It strikes an awe And terror to my aching sight ; the tombs And... | |
 | British theatre - 1831 - 922 pages
...aisle". We'll listen — Leon. Hark! Ahn. ."So, all is hush'd, and still as -Ir:il'i — 1 'tis dreadful! How rev'rend is the face of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads, To hear aloft its arch and pond'rous roof, By its own weight made stedfast and immoveahle, Looking tranquillity,... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 548 pages
...Falsehood is just as distant from truth, as the eyes are from the cars. — Thales. f -~ 414 How reverend is the face of this tall pile ; 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... | |
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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. 
