| 1792 - 530 pages
...fretted miines with hoary trophies hung, ' Her dark illumination wide (he flung, With new (olemnity, the nooks profound, The caves of death, and the dim arches frown'd. ***** Ye brawny prcphets, that in robes fo rich, At diftance due, poflefs the crifped niche ; Ye rows... | |
| History - 1800 - 624 pages
...fretted ihrmes with hoary trophies hung, Her dark illumination wide (he flu ng, With new folemnity, the nooks profound, The caves of death, and the dim arches frown'd. From blifs long felt unwillingly we part : Ah, fpare the weaknefs of a lover's heart ! VOL. XXV, ,Q Chace... | |
| History - 1800 - 620 pages
...fretted ihrines with hoary trophies hung, Her dark illumination wide me flung, With new foleTinity, the nooks profound, The caves of death, and the dim arches frown'd. From blifs long felt unwillingly we part : . Ah, fpare the weaknefs of a lover's heart 1 Voi. XXV. ° Chace... | |
| Thomas Warton - English poetry - 1802 - 332 pages
...expreffion apparently paradoxical, but which very well conveys the image intended. ComWith new fulemnity, the nooks profound, The caves of death, and the dim arches frown'd. From blifs long felt unwillingly we part : 35 Ah, fpare the weaknefs of a lover's heart ! Chafe not the... | |
| Thomas Warton - Inscriptions - 1802 - 380 pages
...apparently pa» radpxical, but which very well conveys the image intended.. Com* [ 57 ] With new folemnity, the nooks profound, The caves of death, and the dim arches frown'd. From blifs long felt unwillingly we part : 3S Ah, fpare the weaknefs of a lover's heart ! Chafe not the... | |
| Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1810 - 524 pages
...Vitruvian symmetry subdued; To suit the genius of the mystic pile : Whilst as around the far-retiring isle, And fretted shrines, with hoary trophies hung, Her...The caves of death, and the dim arches, frown'd." This poem, as addressed to one of the first artists of his age, may seem to court a comparison with... | |
| Nathan Drake - English essays - 1810 - 532 pages
...symmetry subdued ; To suit the genius of the mystic pile : Whilst as around the far-retiring isle, And fretted shrines, with hoary trophies hung, Her...The caves of death, and the dim arches, frown'd."' This poem, as addressed to one of the first artists of his age, may seem to court a comparison with... | |
| Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1810 - 528 pages
...symmetry subdued i To suit the genius of the mystic pile : Whilst as around the far-retiring isle, And fretted shrines, with hoary trophies hung; Her...The caves of death, and the dim arches, frown'd." This poem, as addressed to one of the first artists of his age, may seem to court a comparison with... | |
| Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 466 pages
...light the wondrous fane ; To aid the builder's model, richly rude, By no Vitruvian symmetry subdu'd ; To suit the genius of the mystic pile : Whilst as...unwillingly we part : Ah, spare the weakness of a lover's heart ! Chase not the phantoms of my fairy dream, Phantoms that shrink at Reason's painful... | |
| James Northcote - Art - 1819 - 388 pages
...mystic pile : Whilst, as around the far retiring aisle And fretted shrines, with hoary trophies hang, Her dark illumination wide she flung, With new solemnity,...unwillingly we part ; — Ah ! spare the weakness of a lover's heart ! Chace not the phantoms of my fairy dream, Phantoms that shrink at Reason's painful... | |
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