 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
 | John N. Crawford - 1903 - 442 pages
...finest poetical passage he had ever read. It is a description of a temple. 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 immovable, Looking tranquillity ! It... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1903 - 512 pages
...Leonora. Hark ! Almeria. 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... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1903 - 504 pages
...I^eonora. Hark ! Almeria. 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 it& arch'd and ponderous roof, By its own weight made steadfast and immovable, Looking tranquillity.... | |
 | 1905 - 274 pages
...the theme, And earth and heaven repeat the strain of love. THE CATHEDRAL. How reverend is the face of this tall pile Whose ancient pillars rear their...arched and ponderous roof, By its own weight made steadfast and immovable, Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight. The... | |
 | Banister Fletcher, Sir Banister Fletcher - 1905 - 804 pages
..."Harrison (F.).— " Theophano." (Historical Novel). FRENCH ROMANESQUE. " How reverend is the face of Ihis tall pile, Whose ancient pillars rear their marble...arched and ponderous roof, By its own weight made steadfast and immoveable Looking tranquillity. It strikes an awe And terror on the aching sight." —... | |
 | University of Calcutta - 1908 - 562 pages
...thou hope, who took'st the way To raise in me inexpiable hate. (7) Almcria. How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillars rear their...arched and ponderous roof, By its own weight made steadfast and immovable Looking tranquillity. It strikes an awe I And terror on my aching sight ; the... | |
 | Alexander Malcolm Williams - 1909 - 454 pages
...the bottom of this gulf. Awake, arise or be for ever fall'n. (Milton.) (5) How reverend is the face of this tall pile Whose ancient pillars rear their...arched and ponderous roof, By its own weight made steadfast and immovable, Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1909 - 574 pages
...Leo. Hark! Atm. 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 immoveable, Lookinp! tranquillity!... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1910 - 352 pages
...lines he had in his mind are from Congreve's ' Mourning Bride,' II, 1 : ' How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillars rear their...arched and ponderous roof, By its own weight made steadfast and immovable, Looking tranquillity.' " — Ainger. 66:19-20.— Fox and Dewesbury. George... | |
 | Edwin Llewellyn Shuman - 1910 - 268 pages
...(somewhat extravagantly) to be the finest poetical passage he had ever read : — How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillars rear their...arched and ponderous roof, By its own weight made steadfast and immovable, Looking tranquillity! It strikes an awe And terror to my aching sight. The... | |
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