The Minsters and Abbey Ruins of the United Kingdom: Their History, Architecture, Monuments, and Traditions; with Notices of the Larger Parish Churches and Collegiate ChapelsEdw. Stanford, 1860 - 265 עמודים |
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14th century Abbat abbey aisle aisleless altar altar-tomb ancient arcade Archbishop Austin Canons beautiful Benedictine Bishop brass building built buried buttresses canopied central tower chancel chantry chapter-house choir CHURCH IN FEET Cistercian clerestory cloister cross cruciform crypt died door dormitory Duke Earl Early English east end east window eastern Edward Edward III effigy foliated founded four gable groined Henry III Henry VI Henry VIII Holy John King knight Lady Chapel lancets length lights lofty Lord marble Mary Mary's minster monks mouldings nave niches Norman north aisle north porch north side north-west octagonal panelled parapet parclose Perpendicular piers pillars pinnacles piscina pointed arches priory quatrefoil Queen refectory reign remains reredos restored rich roof round round-headed ruins screen sedilia shafts shrine slab south aisle south side south transept spandrils square stalls stone story three bays three-light tomb town tracery trefoiled triforium triplet turrets vaulting wall west front William
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עמוד 114 - I STOOD in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand ; I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles...
עמוד 5 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
עמוד 175 - It will not bear the brightness of the day, Which streams too much on all years, man, have reft away.
עמוד 65 - Of fruits, and flowers, and bunches of knot-grass, And diamonded with panes of quaint device, Innumerable of stains and splendid dyes, As are the tiger-moth's deep-damask'd wings; And in the midst, 'mong thousand heraldries, And twilight saints, and dim emblazonings, A shielded scutcheon blush'd with blood of queens and kings.
עמוד 117 - THEY dreamt not of a perishable home Who thus could build. Be mine, in hours of fear Or grovelling thought, to seek a refuge here ; Or through the aisles of Westminster to roam ; Where bubbles burst, and folly's dancing foam Melts, if it cross the threshold...
עמוד 207 - ... leave an opening to the blue glittering sea. Did you not observe how, as that white sail shot by and was lost, he turned and crossed himself to drive the tempter from him that had thrown that distraction in his way ? I should tell you that the ferryman who rowed me, a lusty young fellow, told me that he would not for 'all the world pass a night at the abbey (there were such things seen near it) though there was a power of money hid there.
עמוד 255 - IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray.
עמוד 228 - They told, how in their convent cell A Saxon princess once did dwell, The lovely Edelfled; And how, of thousand snakes, each one Was changed into a coil of stone, When holy Hilda prayed ; Themselves, within their holy bound, Their stony folds had often found. They told, how sea-fowls...
עמוד 162 - twere anew, the gaps of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old ! — The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
עמוד 258 - The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined; Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the osier wand In many a freakish knot had twined; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone.