 | 1821 - 438 pages
...breaks fully upon the mind, contrasted with the faults of the cloisters. The eye gazes with wonder at clustered columns of gigantic dimensions, with arches springing from them to such an amazing height ; and man wandering about their bases, shrunk into insignificance in comparison with his own handywork.... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1822 - 424 pages
...breaks fully upon the mind, contrasted with the vaults of the cloisters. The eye gazes with wonder at clustered columns of gigantic dimensions, with arches springing from them to such an amazing height ; and man wandering about their basis, shrunk into insignificence in comparison with his own handy-... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1820 - 438 pages
...breaks fully upon uie mind, contrasted with the vaults of the cloisters. The eye gazes with wonder at clustered columns of gigantic dimensions, with arches springing from them to such an amazing height; and man wandering about their basis, shrunk into insignificance in comparison with his own handywork.... | |
 | Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1824 - 476 pages
...breaks fully upon the mind, contrasted with the vaults of the cloisters. The eye gazes with wonder at clustered columns of gigantic dimensions, with arches springing from them to such an amazing height, and man wandering about their buses, shrunk into insignificance in comparison with his own handy work.... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...breaks fully upon the mind, contrasted with the vaults of the cloisters. The eye gazes with wonder at clustered columns of .gigantic dimensions, with arches springing from them to such an amazing height; and man wandering about their bases, shrunk into insignificance in comparison with his own handy-work.... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1834 - 320 pages
...breaks fully upon the mind, contrasted with the vaults of the cloisters. The eye gazes with wonder at clustered columns of gigantic dimensions, with arches springing from them to such an amazing height ; and man wandering about their bases, shrunk into insignificance in comparison with his own handiwork.... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1836 - 250 pages
...breaks fully upon the mind, contrasted with the vaults of the cloisters. The eye gazes with wonder at clustered columns of gigantic dimensions, with arches springing from them to such an amazing height ; and man wandering about their bases, shrunk into insignificance in comparison with his own handy-work.... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - 478 pages
...breaks fully upon the mind, contrasted with the vaults of the cloisters. The eyes gaze with wonder at clustered columns of gigantic dimensions, with arches springing from them to such an amazing height; and man wandering about their bases, shrunk into insignificance in comparison with his own handiwork.... | |
 | Timothy Stone Pinneo - Readers - 1847 - 502 pages
...breaks fully upon the mind, contrasted with the vaults of the cloisters. The eye gazes with wonder at clustered columns of gigantic dimensions, with arches springing from them to such an amazing hight; and man wandering about their bases, shrinks into insignificance in comparison with his own... | |
 | Washington Irving - Readers - 1849 - 278 pages
...walls, and chatters among the sepulchres, making us more sensible of the quiet we have interrupted. It seems as if the awful nature of the place presses...and hushes. the beholder into noiseless reverence. We feel that we are surrounded by the congregated bones of the great men of past times, who have filled... | |
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We step cautiously and softly about, as if fearful of disturbing the hallowed silence of the tomb, while every... 
