 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
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 520 pages
...vaulted isle : We'll listen — LEONORA. Hark! ALMERIA. No, all is hush'd and still as death. — "Pis dreadful ! How reverend is the face of this tall pile...pillars rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and ponderous roof, By its own weight madfe stedfast and immoveablc, Looking tranquillity !... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - 394 pages
...sparklers of his time, was able to describe this." And then he burst out with his usual warmth : " • How reverend is the face of this tall pile, ' Whose...pillars rear their marble heads, • To bear aloft its arch'd and pond'rous roof, 4 By its own weight made stedfast and immoveable, ' Looking tranquillity!'... | |
 | Paul Ponder (pseud.) - 1825 - 524 pages
...Mourning Bride of Congreve; and the structure of a noble cathedral is delineated in a masterly manner. 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 its own weight made stedfast and immovable, Looking tranquillity. It... | |
 | Paul Ponder (pseud.) - 1825 - 492 pages
...Mourning Bride of Congreve ; and the structure of a noble cathedral is delineated in a masterly manner. 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 its own weight made stedfast and immovable, Looking tranquillity. It... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 524 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...this tall pile ; Whose ancient pillars rear their marhle heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and ponderous roof, By its own weight made stedfast and immoveable,... | |
 | John Arliss - 1825 - 382 pages
...her thistle. And like a true Briton he merry and free. LINLITHGOW PALACE, SCOTLAND. " How reverend 19 the face of this tall pile ; Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and ponderous roofs, By m own weight m nle steittast and immoveahle ; Looking tranquillity.''... | |
 | John Benjamin Seely - 1825 - 676 pages
...fine lines, and the subjoined dimensions, the reader will have some idea of this beautiful chapel. " How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillars rear their rocky heads To bear aloft its arch'd and pond'rous roof, By its own weight made stedfast and immovable... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - 398 pages
...describe this." And then he burst out with his usual warmth : " ' How reverend is the face of thi* tall pile, ' Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads, ' To bear aloft its arch'd and pond'rous roof, • By its own weight made stedfast and immoveaUe, ' Looking tranquillity... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 446 pages
...through hollows of this vaulted aisle : We'll listen— Leonora. Hark ! Alaieria. No, all is IiushM and still as death. — 'Tis dreadful ! How reverend...pillars rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and pond'rous roof, By its own weight made steadfast and iaioioreabJe,, .. .• nquillity '... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 556 pages
...transient wind Whistling through hollows of this vaulted aisle : We'll listen— LEONORA. Hark ! ' ALMERIA. No, all is hushed and still as death. — Tis dreadful...the face of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillars raise their marble heads, To bear aloft the arched and ponderous roof By its own weight made stedfast... | |
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