"The silence and deep repose of the landscape served to impress this character more awfully on the heart, and while Ellena sat wrapt in the thoughtfulness it promoted, the vesper-service of the monks, breathing softly from the cathedral above, came to her ear; it was a music which might be said to win on silence, and was in perfect unison with her feelings; solemn, deep, and full, it swelled in holy peels, and rolled away in murmurs, which attention pursued to the last faint note that melted into air."
The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents. A Romance
At least 7 entries in the ESTC (1797)<br>
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Radcliffe, Ann. <u>The Italian</u>, ed. Robert Miles (New York: Penguin, 2000). &lt;Google Books: <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=vi4JAAAAQAAJ">vol. I</a>, <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=cBkGAAAAQAAJ">vol. II</a>, <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=5RkGAAAAQAAJ">vol. III</a>&gt;