 | James Boswell - 1835 - 348 pàgines
...simply a description of material objects, without any intermixture of moral notions (2), which (1) [" How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose...rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and pond'rous roof, By its own weight made stedfast and unmoveable, Looking tranquillity ! — It strikes... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 346 pàgines
...simply a description of material objects, without any intermixture of moral notions ( 2 ), which (1) [" How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose...rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and pond'rous roof, By its own weight made stedfast and unmoveable, Looking tranquillity!.— It strikes... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1836 - 328 pàgines
...step of Bel's false priest, track'd in 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,...arch'd and ponderous roof, By its own weight made steadfast and immovable, Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight. The... | |
 | University of Calcutta - 1908 - 562 pàgines
...; My love how could'st 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...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 Matthews Manly - 1909 - 570 pàgines
...this vaulted aisle: We'll listen — Leo. Hark! Aim. No, all is hush'd and still as death. — Tis dreadful ! How reverend is the face of this tall pile,...arch'd and ponderous roof, By its own weight made steadfast and immoveable, Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight; the... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1909 - 578 pàgines
...vautted aisle: We'll listen — Leo. Hark! Aim. No, atl is hush'd and stitt as death. — Tis dreadfut ! How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose...arch'd and ponderous roof, By its own weight made steadfast and immoveable, Looking tranquillity! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight; the... | |
 | Alexander Malcolm Williams - 1909 - 454 pàgines
...thunderbolts Transfix us to 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 marble heads, To bear aloft its arched and ponderous roof, By its own weight made steadfast and immovable, Looking tranquillity ! It... | |
 | James Boswell - 1852
...mentioned the description of Dover Cliff. JOHNSON : " No, Sir ; it should 1 Act ii. sc. 3. — MALONE. " How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heada, To bear aloft its arch'd and pond'rous roof, By its own weight made steadfast and unmoveable,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1910 - 352 pàgines
...recollection of a passage. The lines he had in his mind are from Congreve's ' Mourning Bride,' II, 1 : ' How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose...pillars rear their marble heads To bear aloft its arched and ponderous roof, By its own weight made steadfast and immovable, Looking tranquillity.' "... | |
 | Edwin Llewellyn Shuman - 1910 - 268 pàgines
...declared by Dr. Johnson (somewhat extravagantly) to be the finest poetical passage he had ever read: — How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose...pillars rear their marble heads To bear aloft its arched and ponderous roof, By its own weight made steadfast and immovable, Looking tranquillity! It... | |
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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. 
