 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pàgines
...listen— LEONORA. Hark! ALMERIA. No, all Is hush'd and still as death.— 'Tis dreadful* How reverend man retired from the world. But he seemed to have...forgotten that the same verse which contains "oblitus m pond'rnus roof, By its own weight made steadfast and immoveablc, Looking tranquillity ! it strikes... | |
 | Edward Smallwood - 1837 - 894 pàgines
...slaughtered priesthood in their way. CHAPTER XV. « Hark I No ; all is hush'd, aod still as death. ' n» dreadful. How rev'rend is the face of this tall pile. Whose ancient pillars rear their marble head;, To bear aloft its arch, and pond'rous roof, By its own weight made steadfast and immovable,... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff, Heinrich Döring - 1837 - 258 pàgines
...all is hush'd and Btill as death ! 'tis dreadful ! How reverend is the face of this tall pile, \Vhose ancient pillars rear their marble heads. To bear aloft its arch'd and pund'rous roof, Looking tranquility ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight : the tombs And... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 742 pàgines
...listen— LEONORA. Hark! ALMERÍA. No, all is hush'd and null as death.— 'Ti» dreadful' How reverend 4B arch'tl and pond'rous roof, By its own weight made steadfast and immoveable, Looking tranquillity !... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 844 pàgines
...We'll listen Leon. Hark ! [dreadful ! Aim. No, all is hush'd, and still as death — 'tis How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillars...arch'd and ponderous roof, By its own weight made stedfast and immoveable, Looking tranquillity. It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 pàgines
...still n« death— 'tin dreadful .' How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillan rear their marble heads To bear aloft its arch'd and ponderous roof, By IU own weight made stedfast and Immovable, Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my... | |
 | Charles Mackenzie - 1842 - 98 pàgines
...thus expressed by Congreve : — " No, all is hushed and still as death. 'TU dreadful ; How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads To bear aloft its arched and ponderous roof, By its own weight made stedfast and immoveable, Looking tranquillity." Mourning... | |
 | Walter Freye - 1902 - 72 pàgines
...Act II, Scene 1 is referred to: »All is hush'd, and still as death — 't is dreadful! How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillars, rear their marble heads, To bear aloft it's arch'd and ponderous roof, By its own weight made steadfast an immovable, Looking tranquillity!... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 864 pàgines
...We 41 listen. Leon. Hark ! Aim. No; all is hushed and still as death. 'Tis dreadful ! How reverend hear aloft its arched and ponderous roof, By its own weight made steadfast and immovable, Looking tranquillity.... | |
 | John N. Crawford - 1903 - 442 pàgines
...Johnson to be the finest poetical passage he had ever read. It is a description of a temple. How reverend is the face of this tall pile ; Whose ancient pillars...arch'd and ponderous roof, By its own weight made stedfast and immovable, Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight. Boswell... | |
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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. 
