 | English drama - 1811 - 718 pages
...wind Whistling through hollows of this vaulted aisk. We'll listen Leon. Hark! Aim. No, all is hushed, and still as death— 'tis dreadful ! How reverend...pillars rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arched and ponderous roof, By its own weight made stcdfast and immovable, Looking tranquillity. It... | |
 | British drama - 1811 - 712 pages
...Whistling through hollows of this vaulted aisle. We'll listen Leon. Hark ! Aim. No, all is hushed, and still as death — 'tis dreadful ! How reverend...pillars rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arched and ponderous roof, By its own weight made stedfast and immoveable, Looking tranquillity. It... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 380 pages
...transient wind Whistling thro" hollows of this vaulted aisle : We'll listen— LEONORA. Hark ! ALMERIA. No, all is hush'd and still as death. — "Tis dreadful ! How reverend is the face of thisxfall pile, Whose ancient pillars, rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and pond'rous... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1812 - 280 pages
...of similar effects upon the mind in a Gothic Church : Now allis hushed, and still as death : — His dreadful! How reverend is the face of this tall pile,...rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and ponderous roof, By its own weight made stedfast and immovable, Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - Actors - 1812 - 500 pages
...vaulted isle: We'11 listen Leonora. Hark! Altneriri, No, all is hush'd, and still as death.— 'T is dreadful! How reverend is the face of this tall pile;...rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and ponderous roof, By its own weight made stedfast and immovable, Looking tranquillity! It strikes an... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - English drama - 1812 - 494 pages
...vaulted isle : We '11 listen Leonora. Hark! dlmeña. No, all is hush'd, and still as death.— T is dreadful! How reverend is the face of this tall pile;...rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and ponderous roof, By its own weight made stedfast and immovable, Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - English drama - 1812 - 492 pages
...Almería. No, all is bush'd, and siill as death.— Т is dreadful! Hovr reverend is the face of this taH pile; Whose ancient 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 strikes an... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1813 - 538 pages
...hollows of this vaulted isle : We'll listen LEON. Hark ! ALM. No, all is hush'd, and still as deafh.— Tis dreadful ! How reverend is the face of this tall...bear aloft its arch'd and pond'rous roof, By its own \yeight made steadfast and immovcable, Looking tranquillity ! it strikes an awe And terror on my aching... | |
 | Rodolphus Dickinson - Elocution - 1815 - 214 pages
...dreadful ! Leo. Let us re.turn, theljiorror of this place And silence, wiH increase your melancholy. How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose...ancient, pillars rear their marble heads, To bear aloft it's areh'd and ponderous roof, By its own weight made steadfast and immovcabl^, Looking tranquillity..... | |
 | Thomas Dibdin - English drama - 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... | |
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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. 
