 | Lawrence Lipking - Biography & Autobiography - 2009 - 396 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... | |
 | Howard Anderson - Aesthetics - 1967 - 429 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 stedf ast 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. 
