| Book - 1841 - 164 pages
...the grave. Nor 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 anthem swells the note of praise. Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Perhaps in... | |
| 1841 - 438 pages
...praise ;" to " 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... | |
| Sir James Emerson Tennent - 1841 - 316 pages
...than its 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... | |
| 1850 - 556 pages
...made me and my children — the sons of sacred harmony — happy. Come, Sir, and listen— • " ' Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the notei of praise,' and say whether the execution of the said anthem is not, nine times in ten, a disgrace... | |
| John Wilson - 1842 - 414 pages
...famous stream beloved by all the Muses! Through this midnight hush—methinks I hear faint and far off a sacred music,— "Where through the long-drawn aisle...pealing anthem swells the note of praise!" How steeped in the beauty of moonlight are all those pale, pillared churches, courts and cloisters, shrines and... | |
| John Wilson - 1842 - 426 pages
...stream beloved by all the Muses ! Through this midnight hush — methinks I hear faint and far off a sacred music, — " Where through the long-drawn aisle...pealing anthem swells the note of praise!" How steeped in the beauty of moonlight are all those pale, pillared churches, courts and cloisters, shrines and... | |
| John Wilson - 1842 - 380 pages
...the faculty divine !" Now that those deep diapasons have ceased to roll — now that no more, '- " through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise," in the hush may audience be found to listen even to our humbler strains — provided they... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1831 - 622 pages
...the 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 - 422 pages
...psalms is 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 —... | |
| William Collins - 1844 - 324 pages
...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 of praise. Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's... | |
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