 Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a dullness to my trembling heart.  The British drama - Page 276by British drama - 1804Full view - About this book
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 548 pages
...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... | |
 | Eneas Mackenzie, Marvin Ross - 1834 - 486 pages
...time at least, every idea of examining the parts of which it is composed. " 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 immoveable, Looking tranquillity."... | |
 | Eneas Mackenzie - 1834 - 502 pages
...time at least, every idea of examining the parts of which it is composed. " 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 immoveable, Looking tranquillity."... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 348 pages
...material objects, without any intermixture of moral notions (2), which (1) [" How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and pond'rous roof, By its own weight made stedfast and unmoveable, Looking tranquillity ! —... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 346 pages
...material objects, without any intermixture of moral notions ( 2 ), which (1) [" How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and pond'rous roof, By its own weight made stedfast and unmoveable, Looking tranquillity!.—... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1835 - 158 pages
...and expression, in the manner in which he has heretofore been directed. 752. 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 immoveable, Looking tranquillity !... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1836 - 328 pages
...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, 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...LEONORA. Hark! ALMERIA. No, all Is hush'd and still as death.— 'Tis dreadful* How reverend is the face from the world. But he seemed to have forgotten that the same verse which contains arch'd and pond'rnus roof, By its own weight made steadfast and immoveablc, Looking tranquillity !... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 pages
...listen— tx>. Hark' Atm. No, all is hush'd and still as death.— Tts 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 immoveable, Looking tranquillity !... | |
 | William Wycherley, Leigh Hunt - 1840 - 782 pages
...Leon. Hark ! Aim. No, all is hnsh'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 itnmoveable, Looking tranquillity !... | |
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