 | 1888 - 272 стор.
...a few minutes to the corner of the room, and returned with these beautiful lines : " No hammer.feU, no ponderous axes rung; Like some tall palm, the mystic fabric sprung. Majestic silence ! " ( 227 ) ^ -,!•--.- :• ' .'.•.• Questions and Answers. .?•' THE TWELVE IMAMS — THE MAHDI.... | |
 | Robert Steel - 1890 - 680 стор.
...omission of this circumstance, and retired to the corner of the room. He soon showed Sir Walter these beautiful lines : — " No hammer fell, no ponderous...axes rung ; Like some tall palm, the mystic fabric sprang." Heber added another poem while the dew of his youth was on him ; but by none of his writings... | |
 | Richard S. Peale - 1890 - 548 стор.
...though ne'er so witty , A beggar that is dumb, you know, May challenge double pity. Raleigh. No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung; Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung. Majestic silence ! Heber. Thou hast been called, О Sleep ! the friend of woe ; But 'tis the happy that have called... | |
 | Andrew Clark - 1891 - 500 стор.
...had escaped him, namely that no tools were used in its erection. Reginald retired for a few minutes to the corner of the room, and returned with the beautiful...tall palm the mystic fabric sprung, Majestic silence 1 " 2 In connection with this literary and social side of the College may be mentioned the Phoanix... | |
 | Lorenzo Gorham Stevens - 1891 - 314 стор.
...lines, in regard to the Temple at Jerusalem, I Kings vi, 7, which we see so often quoted : " No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung, Like some tall palm, the mystic fabric sprung." When it was first read by him in the theatre, at the Annual College Commencement, it was received with... | |
 | Edmund Salusbury Ffoulkes - 1892 - 548 стор.
...instantly retired to a corner of the room and soon returned with this exquisite colophon ' : — ' No hammer fell, no ponderous axes rung : Like some...tall palm the mystic fabric sprung: Majestic silence ! ' In the copy presented to ' Mr. Douce with Mr. Heber's compliments,' Mr. Douce thus expresses his... | |
 | Percy Fitzgerald - 1893 - 352 стор.
...artem, in professional style. And so it rose with all its pillars and pediments "behind the scenes." " No ponderous axes rung ; Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung." 1 This is a "note" of administrative sagacity. The conventional course is to be content with the "... | |
 | Sir Mungo William MacCallum - 1894 - 464 стор.
...erection," and how Heber, after a brief consideration, returned with the best lines in the piece — " No hammer fell, no ponderous axes rung ; Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung." 2 The anecdote, if it shows Heber's swiftness in responding to a hint, shows also his need of receiving... | |
 | Laurence Austine Waddell - 1895 - 650 стор.
...are given special prominence, and many of these images are regarded as " self-sprung : " " No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung ; Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.'" But even this order of the images is seldom observed. Most frequently in the Ge-lug-pa temples Tsoh... | |
 | Percy Fitzgerald - 1895 - 208 стор.
...artem, in professional style. And so it rose with all its pillars and pediments " behind the scenes." "No ponderous axes rung ; Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung." The name of the new piece was ' The Cup,' a fine " barbarian" story, strangely interesting and even... | |
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Scott observed that, in the verses on Solomon's Temple, one striking circumstance had escaped him, namely, that no tools were used in its erection. Reginald retired for a few minutes to the corner of the room, and returned with the beautiful lines, —... 
