Note 658 — THE ARGUMENT.
Reading edition
Waller's version of Æneid iv.:
A death-like quiet, and deep silence fell.
Dryden's Astræa Redux:
A dreadful quiet felt.—Wakefield.
Charles Bainbrigg on the death of Edward King:
Abyssum Terribilis requies et vasta silentia cingant.—Steevens.