 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 492 pàgines
...Almería. No, all is bush'd, and siill as death.— Т is dreadful! Hovr reverend is the face of this taH pile; Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads,...ponderous roof, By its own weight made stedfast and immovable, Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on rny aching sight; the tombs And monumental... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1813 - 538 pàgines
...of this vaulted isle : We'll listen LEON. Hark ! ALM. No, all is hush'd, and still as deafh.— Tis dreadful ! How reverend is the face of this tall pile...rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and pond'rous roof, By its own \yeight made steadfast and immovcable, Looking tranquillity ! it strikes... | |
 | Rodolphus Dickinson - 1815 - 214 pàgines
...dreadful ! Leo. Let us re.turn, theljiorror of this place And silence, wiH increase your melancholy. How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose...ancient, pillars rear their marble heads, To bear aloft it's areh'd and ponderous roof, By its own weight made steadfast and immovcabl^, Looking tranquillity..... | |
 | Thomas Dibdin - 1815 - 450 pàgines
...We'll listen Lew. Hark! Aim. No, all is husli'd, and still as death — 'tis dreadful ! How rev'reud is the face of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch and pondVous roof, By its own weight made stedfast and immoveable, Looking tranquillity. It strikes... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pàgines
...when he made a lord. § 89. Description of an ancient Cathedral. CONGREVE. Tis dreadful : How rev'rend is the face of this tall pile Whose ancient pillars...arch'd and ponderous roof, By its own weight made steadfast and immoveable! Looking tranquillity ; it strikes an awe And terror to my aching sight !... | |
 | John Evans - 1818 - 564 pàgines
...sensations of 7* DISSENTERS. solemnity. To use the language of Congreve, in his Mourning Bride : — How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillars rear their marble head, To bear aloft its arch'd and pnnd'rous roof, By its own weight made steadfast and immovoahle,... | |
 | 1819 - 896 pàgines
...to illustrate my meaning, and to gratify my readers, by a passage from " The Mourning Bride."— • How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose...heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and ponderous roof, By it* own weight made steadfast anil immoveable, Looking tranquillity ! it strikes an awe And terror... | |
 | Pierce Egan - 1819 - 398 pàgines
...pen-nailes and spires, evidently intended for figures ; at present, however, they have no tenants." 'Tis dreadful ! How reverend is the face of this tall pile,...rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and pondrous roof ! By its own weight made stedfast and immoveable. Looking tranquilly, it strikes an awe... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 418 pàgines
...vaulted aisle. .We'll listen . ..'. - Leon. Hark ! Aim. No, all is hushed, and still as death — 'tis dreadful! .-• . How reverend is the face of this...pillars rear their marble heads, •To bear aloft its arched and ponderous roof, By its own weight made stedfast and immoveable, Looking tranquillity. It... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 416 pàgines
...vaulted isle ; We'll listen— LEONORA. • Hark! ALMERIA. No, all is hush'd and still as death.— Tis dreadful ! How reverend is the face of this tall pile,...ponderous roof, By its own weight made stedfast and immoveabli Looking tranquillity 1 It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental... | |
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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 dullness to my trembling heart. 
