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 113by Thomas Gray - 1804 - 207 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | 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 ? '... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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^, |... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 416 pages
...Muses! Through this midnight hushmethinks 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,... | |
 | 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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