 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.  The Works of Lord Byron - Page 447by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1904Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Dibdin - 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 504 pages
...Whistling thro' hollows of this vaulted isle : We'll listen — LEONORA. Hark! ALMERIA. No, all is hush'd and still as death. — 'Tis dreadful ! How reverend...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... | |
 | 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 rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and ponderous roof, By its own weight made steadfast and immoveable! Looking tranquillity ;... | |
 | John Evans - 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,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 420 pages
...some transient wind Whistling through hollows of this vaulted aisle. We'll listen Leon. Hark ! Aim. No, all is hushed, and still as death — 'tis dreadful!...arched and ponderous roof, By its own weight made stedfast and immoveable, Looking tranquillity. It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the... | |
 | Pierce Egan - 1819 - 398 pages
...pen-nailes and spires, evidently intended for figures ; at present, however, they have no tenants." 'Tis dreadful ! How reverend is the face of this tall...pillars rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and pondrous roof ! By its own weight made stedfast and immoveable. Looking tranquilly, it strikes... | |
 | 1819 - 896 pages
...to illustrate my meaning, and to gratify my readers, by a passage from " The Mourning Bride."— • How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose...pillars rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and ponderous roof, By it* own weight made steadfast anil immoveable, Looking tranquillity !... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 430 pages
...Whistling through hollows of this vaulted isle : We'll listea — LEONORA. Hark! ALMERIA. No, all is hush'd and still as death.— Tis dreadful ! How reverend...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 416 pages
...thro' hollows of this vaulted isle ; We'll listen— LEONORA. • Hark! ALMERIA. No, all is hush'd and still as death.— Tis dreadful ! How reverend...pillars rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and ponderous roof, By its own weight made stedfast and immoveabli Looking tranquillity 1 It... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 426 pages
...Whistling thro' hollows of this vaulted isle : Well listen— LEONORA. Hark I ALMERIA. No, all is hush'd and still as death. — "Tis dreadful ! How reverend...pillars rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and ponderous roof, By its own weight made stedfast and immoveabler Looking tranquillity ! It... | |
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