 | English drama - 1811 - 718 pages
...wind Whistling through hollows of this vaulted aisk. We'll listen Leon. Hark! Aim. No, all is hushed, and still as death— 'tis dreadful ! How reverend...pillars rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arched and ponderous roof, By its own weight made stcdfast and immovable, Looking tranquillity. It... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 380 pages
...transient wind Whistling thro" hollows of this vaulted aisle : We'll listen— LEONORA. Hark ! ALMERIA. No, all is hush'd and still as death. — "Tis dreadful ! How reverend is the face of thisxfall pile, Whose ancient pillars, rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and pond'rous... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1813 - 540 pages
...else some transient wind Whistling thro' hollows of this vaulted isle : We'll listen I.EOS. Hark! ALM. No, all is hush'd, and still as death. — Tis dreadful...rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and pond'rous roof, By its own weight made steadfast and immoveable, Looking tranquillity ! it strikes... | |
 | Biography - 1813 - 536 pages
...wind Whistling thro' hollows of this vaulted isle : We-ll listen LEoN. Hark ! ALM. No, all is bush-d, and still as death. — 'Tis dreadful! How reverend...rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and pond-rous roof, By its own weight made steadfast and immoveable, Looking tranquillity ! it strikes... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1813 - 538 pages
...hollows 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...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 - Elocution - 1815 - 214 pages
...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 - English drama - 1815 - 450 pages
...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 pages
...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 - England - 1818 - 564 pages
...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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1819 - 376 pages
...transient wind Whistling thro' hollows of this vaulted aisle We'll listen— LEONORA. Hark! ALMERIA. No, all is hush'd and still as death — 'Tis dreadful...rear their marble heads. To bear aloft its arch'd and pond'rous roof, By its own weight made steadfast and immoveable, Looking tranquillity ! it strikes... | |
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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. 
