 | 1866 - 398 pages
...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...arch'd and pond'rous roof, By its own weight made steadfast and immovable, Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations - 1867 - 752 pages
...Casting a dim religious light. Milton, H Pens. 157. How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads, To bear aloft...arch'd and pond'rous roof, By its own weight made steadfast and immoveable, Looking tranquillity. Congreve, Mourning Bride. CAUSE AND EFFECT. What dire... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 1022 pages
...in Shakspeare equal to it, — (" ' How reverend is the face of this tall pile. Whose ancient pillan 1867"- steadfast and unmoveable. Looking tranquillity 1 It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight. The... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 598 pages
...— (" ' How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillars rear their marble treads, To bear aloft its arch'd and pond'rous roof; By its own weight made steadfast and unmovwUt, Looking tranquillity! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight. The... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...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 immoveablo, Looking tranquillity ! It strikes... | |
 | 1869 - 612 pages
...ARCHITECTUEAL SKETCHES.— No. V. EXETEB OATHEDEAL. " 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." EXETEE, the... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - English poetry - 1870 - 524 pages
...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, looking tranquillity ! It strikes... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1880 - 526 pages
...read ; he recollected none in Sh. equal to it, — " How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads, To bear aloft...arch'd and pond'rous roof; By its own weight made steadfast and immovcable, Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight. The... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 pages
...widely popular passage of Congreve's Mournsng Bride: " How reverend is the face of this tall Pile, Whose ancient Pillars rear their marble heads To bear aloft...arch'd and pond'rous roof, By its own weight made stedfast and immoveable, Looking tranquillity." 158. massy, Milton and Shakspere do not use the form... | |
 | Alexander Wood - London (England) - 1874 - 412 pages
...pp. 207-8. Ststb Malh. WESTMINSTEK AND LAMBETH. ' 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 strikes an... | |
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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 chilness to my trembling heart. 
