 | Great Britain - 1831 - 484 pages
...picturesque, but more powerful and elevated ; the third has all the melody and solemnity of a requiem. " It was a stately convent, with its old and lofty walls,...around, the noonday sun a drowsy radiance cast. No tound of busy life was heard, snve from the cloister dim, The tinkling of the silver bell, or the sisters'... | |
 | Great Britain - 1831 - 486 pages
...powerful and elevated ; the third has all the melody and solemnity of a requiem. " It was a.stately convent, with its old and lofty walls. And gardens...where soft the footstep falls ; And o'er the antique dial^itooea the creeping shadow past, Arid, all around, the noonday sun a drowsy radiance cast. No... | |
 | 1831 - 472 pages
...picturesque, but more powerful and elevated ; the third has all the melody and solemnity of a requiem. * It was a stately convent, with its old and lofty walls,...with their broad green walks, where soft the footstep tails ; And o'er the antique dial-stones the creeping shadow past, And, all around, the noonday sun... | |
 | Great Britain - 1831 - 488 pages
...picturesque, but more powerful and elevated ; the third has all the melody and solemnity of a requiem. '• It was a stately convent, with its old and lofty walls,...gardens with their broad green walks, where soft the footAtep falls ; And o'er the antique dial-stones the creeping shadow past, A nd, all around, the noonday... | |
 | William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 pages
...into other years, and lo ! in bright array, I saw, as in a dream, the forms of ages pass'd away. It was a stately convent, with its old and lofty walls,...with their broad green walks, where soft the footstep And o'er the antique dial-stones the creeping shadow pass'd, [falls ; And all around the noon-day sun... | |
 | Denis Ignatius Moriarty - 1840 - 972 pages
...of the holly and yew were reduced to their legitimate limits,— " Atd o'er the ancient dial-stone the creeping shadow past, And all around the noonday sun a drowsy radiance cast." formality; the aged pear-tree was pruned and dressed with reverential hands; young trees were planted... | |
 | English literature - 1847 - 436 pages
...MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS. IT was a stately eonvent, with its old and lofty walle, And gardens with their green walks, where soft the footstep falls And o'er the antique dial-stones the ereeping shadow past, And all around the noon-day sun a dreamy radianee east ; No sound of busy life... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1901 - 578 pages
...array 1 saw, as in a dream, the form of ages pass'd away. It was in a stately convent with its hoar and lofty walls, And gardens with their broad green walks where soft the footstep falls ; And there five noble maidens sat beneath the hawthorn trees, In that first budding spring of youth when... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1901 - 688 pages
...array 1 saw, as in a dream, the form of ages pass'd away. It was in a stately convent with ita hoar and lofty walls, And gardens with their broad green walks where soft the footstep falls ; And there five noble maidens sat beneath the hawthorn trees, In that first budding spring of youth when... | |
 | Conrad Hume Pinches - Elocution - 1854 - 460 pages
...into other years, and lo ! in bright array, I saw, as in a dream, the forms of ages pass'd away. It was a stately convent, with its old and lofty walls,...walks, where soft the footstep falls ; * * * * * And there five noble maidens sat, beneath the orchard trees, In that first budding spring of youth, when... | |
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And all around the noonday sun a drowsy radiance cast. No sound of busy life was heard, save, from the cloister dim, The tinkling of the silver bell, or the sisters... 
