Old World Memories, Հատոր 2L. C. Page, 1899 |
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... Decorated style , having the only purely Gothic apse with no aisles . Lichfield means " the field of the dead ; " and the blood of British martyrs murdered by Diocletian has been the seed of the noble church which rises above their ...
... Decorated style , having the only purely Gothic apse with no aisles . Lichfield means " the field of the dead ; " and the blood of British martyrs murdered by Diocletian has been the seed of the noble church which rises above their ...
Էջ 111
... com- partments are often decorated by pretty pho- tographs of scenery , and the ventilation is of course much better . As for engines , they sometimes appear very odd affairs , with the engineer and Chester Carlisle - The Tweed III.
... com- partments are often decorated by pretty pho- tographs of scenery , and the ventilation is of course much better . As for engines , they sometimes appear very odd affairs , with the engineer and Chester Carlisle - The Tweed III.
Էջ 117
... . The choir is Early Decorated ; and there is no finer wood - carving in England than that of its stalls . The altar is of olive and cedar from the Holy Land ; and the pavement before it Chester - Carlisle - The Tweed 117.
... . The choir is Early Decorated ; and there is no finer wood - carving in England than that of its stalls . The altar is of olive and cedar from the Holy Land ; and the pavement before it Chester - Carlisle - The Tweed 117.
Էջ 122
... Decorated style which we now see , with the , painted wooden ceiling , of which the present is a reproduction . The backs of the stalls too are covered with wonderfully quaint paintings of the legendary stories of Saints Augustine ...
... Decorated style which we now see , with the , painted wooden ceiling , of which the present is a reproduction . The backs of the stalls too are covered with wonderfully quaint paintings of the legendary stories of Saints Augustine ...
Էջ 123
... Decorated tracery is be- fore us . Carry the changes still on to their latest form , as here at Carlisle , and geometri- cal forms become flowing and unconfined , like tongues of flame ; and regularity and order seem at Chester Carlisle ...
... Decorated tracery is be- fore us . Carry the changes still on to their latest form , as here at Carlisle , and geometri- cal forms become flowing and unconfined , like tongues of flame ; and regularity and order seem at Chester Carlisle ...
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Էջ 293 - TO MY SUCCESSOR. If thou chance for to find A new house to thy mind, And built without thy cost: Be good to the poor, As God gives thee store, And then my labour's not lost.
Էջ 66 - And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou art : thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled : only in the throne will I be greater than thou.
Էջ 292 - UNDERNEATH this sable hearse Lies the subject of all verse, SIDNEY'S sister, PEMBROKE'S mother ; Death ! ere thou hast slain another, Learn'd and fair, and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.
Էջ 230 - Vanbrugh , and is a good example of his heavy though imposing style (*Lie heavy on him, Earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee"), with a Corinthian portico in the centre and two projecting wings.
Էջ 231 - The world, surely, has not another place like Oxford ; it is a despair to see such a place and ever to leave it, for it would take a lifetime and more than one, to comprehend and enjoy it satisfactorily.
Էջ 171 - The Prelate of Durham became one, and the more important, of the only two English prelates whose worldly franchises invested them with some faint shadow of the sovereign powers enjoyed by the princely churchmen of the Empire.
Էջ 70 - In the same pious confidence, beside her friend and sister, here sleep the remains of Dorothy Gray, widow, the careful, tender mother of many children, one of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her.
Էջ 143 - ' Lowland Scotland as a distinct nationality came in with two warriors and went out with two bards. It came in with William Wallace and Robert Bruce, and went out with Robert Burns and Walter Scott. The first two made the history ; the last two told the story and sang the song.
Էջ 39 - In the poetical quarter, I found there were poets who had no monuments, and monuments which had no poets.