| Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...it was in building" (1 Kingi vi. 7). Heber at once added the next reference to " majestic ailenoe." No workman steel, no pond'rous axes rung ; Like some tall palm the noiseless fabric sprung. 200 Majestic silence ! — then the harp awoke. The cymbal clang'd, the decp-voic'd trumpet spoke ;... | |
| John Ross MacDuff - 1877 - 500 pages
...nor any tool of iron, heard in the hoiise while it was in building " (i Kings vi. 7). " No workman's steel, no pond'rous axes rung, Like some tall palm the noiseless fabric sprung." And yet, all the greatness and glory and pomp of the world, were nothing in real interest to what these... | |
| English poetry - 1878 - 298 pages
...palace, then in awful state The temple reared its everlasting gate: No workman's -steel, no ponderous axes rung ! Like some tall palm the noiseless fabric...Majestic silence ! — then the harp awoke, The cymbal clanged, the deep-voiced trumpet spoke ; And Salem spread her suppliant arms abroad, . Viewed the:... | |
| Natural history - 1882 - 136 pages
...describes the silent building of the ancient Jewish Temple, and uses as an image the growth of a tree — Then tower'd the palace, then in awful state The Temple rear'd its everlasting gate : No workman fteel, no ponderous axes rung I Like some tall palm the noiseless fabric sprung. Majestic silence 1... | |
| Bourchier Wrey Savile - Bible - 1882 - 468 pages
...Bishop Heber describes the material Temple of Mount Zion in his beautiful ode on PALESTINE : — " Then tower'd the palace, then in awful state, The Temple rear'd its everlasting gate : No workman's steel, no ponderous axes rung ! Like some tall palm the noiseless fabric sprung. Majestic... | |
| Quotations, English - 1882 - 1434 pages
...world was made of nothing then; 'Tis made by nothing now a^ain. m. CRASHAW— Sttps to the Temple. IL\ :+ a mC\ #} lܓ> aghz Dɴ b 2] в : 7 ڋ b h ̧ C workman's steel, no ponderous axes rung;! Like some bill palm the noiseless fabric sprung. n. BISHOP... | |
| African Americans - 1883 - 418 pages
...have been gained. We may say of the young Republic as H-eber sang of the first temple; "No workman's steel, no pond'rous axes rung, Like some tall palm the noiseless fabric sprung." Yet those foundations foretell the character of a nation soon to be. A nation self-ruled by principles... | |
| John Heyl Vincent - Sunday schools - 1889 - 426 pages
...palace ; there in awful state The temple reared its everlasting gate ; No workman's steel, no ponderous axes rung ; Like some tall palm the noiseless fabric...Majestic silence ! then the harp awoke. The cymbal clanged, the deep-voiced trumpet spoke ; And Salem spread her suppliant arms abroad. Viewed the descending... | |
| William Jones - Christianity - 1895 - 410 pages
...palace; Then in awful state The temple reared its everlasting gate. No workman's steel, No ponderous axes rung, Like some tall palm, the noiseless fabric...Majestic silence ! then the harp awoke, The cymbal clanged, the deep-voiced trumpet spoke ; And Salem spread her suppliant arms abroad, Viewed the descending... | |
| Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...Problem. Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing. k. GRAY — A Long Story. 96 I. BISHOP HEBEE— Palestine. L. 163. Grandeur * * * consists in form, and not in size : and to the... | |
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