 | Francis Thayer Russell - Elocution - 1882 - 330 pages
...All is hushed and still as death. 'Tin 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, Looking tranquillity. It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight. The tombs And... | |
 | Walter Thornbury - London (England) - 1879 - 604 pages
...WESTMINSTER ABBEY.— A SURVEY OF THE BUILDING. " How reverend is the face of all this 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... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1887 - 512 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 stedfast and immoveable, Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1888 - 526 pages
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 | James Boswell - 1889 - 504 pages
...the top of one of the pillars in the temple, it would not have aided the idea, but weakened it." 1 To bear aloft its arch'd and pond'rous roof, By its own weight made stedfast and unmoveable, Looking tranquillity ! — It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight."... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 454 pages
...the top of one of the pillars in the temple, it would not have aided the idea, but weakened it." 1 To bear aloft its arch'd and pond'rous roof, By its own weight made stedfast and unmoveable, Looking tranquillity ! — It strikes an awe Anrl terror on my aching sight."... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - Authors, English - 1889 - 442 pages
...aloft its arch'd By its own weight ma Looking tranqnillity." ow reveren s te ace o ts ta e, T Whose ancient Pillars rear their marble heads ' ' To bear aloft its arch'd and pond'rons roof, By its own weight made stedfast and immoveable. " 158. Milton and Shakspere do not... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1889 - 494 pages
...UOHHCOTK'S Life of Reynolds, vol. II, p. 189. > " How reverend b the face of this tall pile, . Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and pond'roua roof, By its own weight made stedfast and unraoveable. Looking tranquillity ! — It strikes... | |
 | James Boswell - English literature - 1890 - 568 pages
...height. The • Act it, sc. 3.— MALONE. • ""'• " How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose x> pond'rons roof, By its own weight made steadfast and unmoveable, Looking tranquillity ! It strikes... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1890 - 474 pages
...hush'd, and still as death. — "Tin 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 stedfast and immoveable, 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. 
