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" Await alike the inevitable hour : The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note... "
The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray - Page 113
by Thomas Gray - 1804 - 207 pages
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Confidence in God, the only true rest for the soul, and refuge in these ...

Confidence - 1840 - 272 pages
...reflecting, as we tread under the roofs of our ancient cathedrals and churches — " Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise." — (GRAY.) That " Thou art the King of glory, O Christ, Thou art the everlasting Son of the...
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The American Class-reader: Containing a Series of Lessons in Reading; with ...

George Willson - 1840 - 298 pages
...you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise Where, through the long-drawn aisle, and fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. 11 Can stoned urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? '•••...
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The book of poetry [ed. by B.G. Johns].

Book - 1841 - 164 pages
...you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If mem'ry o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing...of praise. Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant...
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A System of Elocution: With Special Reference to Gesture, to the Treatment ...

Andrew Comstock - 1841 - 410 pages
...the fault,, \ If mem'ry o'er their tomb no trophies raise', | Wherethrough the long-drawn aisle.and fretted vault', | The pealing anthem swells the note of praise,. | Can storied urn, or animated bust, \ BacA to its mansion call the fleeting breath, ? | Can , honour's voice provoAe the silent dus^, |...
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Belgium, Volume 1

Sir James Emerson Tennent - 1841 - 316 pages
...melodious tones resounding amidst the " dim religious light" of the old gothic church, when "Through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise." In the church of St. Sauveur, Rue des Pre'tres, there is a painting of the " Descent from...
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The Cottager's monthly visitor, Volume 21

1841 - 438 pages
..." be thankful unto him," and to " speak good of his name !" Oh, how I love to hear, " Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise ;" to hear the two sides of the choir alternately taking up the Psalm of thanksgiving, inviting...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1

John Wilson - 1842 - 430 pages
...Through this midnight hush — methinks I hear faint and far off a sacred music, — " Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise!" How steeped in the beauty of moonlight are all those pale, pillared churches, courts and cloisters,...
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The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 18

Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1831 - 622 pages
...Faculty divine !" Vow that those deep diapasons have ceased In roll — now that no more, — " through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise," n the hush may audience be found to listen even to our humble strains — provided they ire...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1

John Wilson - 1842 - 416 pages
...Muses! Through this midnight hush—methinks I hear faint and far off a sacred music,— "Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise!" How steeped in the beauty of moonlight are all those pale, pillared churches, courts and cloisters,...
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The Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2

John Wilson - 1842 - 422 pages
...heard but on the Sabbath, as in the cathedral towns and cities of England, where so often " Through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise." Poetry, in our age, has been made too much a thing to talk about — to show off upon —...
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