 | Marcius Willson - 1881 - 492 pages
...Saxon strength that abbey frowned, With massive arches broad and round, That rose alternate, row on row, On ponderous columns, short and low, Built ere...pointed aisle, and shafted stalk, The arcades of an alloyed walk To emulate in stone." 14. When, on our visit to Melrose Abbey, to which Henry has referred,... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1881 - 488 pages
...Saxon strength that abbey frowned, With massive arches broad and round, That rose alternate, row on row, On ponderous columns, short and low, Built ere...pointed aisle, and shafted stalk, The arcades of an alloyed walk To emulate in stone." 14. When, on our visit to Melrose Abbey, to which Henry has referred,... | |
 | Frances Phillips - 1881 - 252 pages
...solemn, huge, and dark-red pile, Placed on the margin of the isle. In Saxon strength that Abbey frowned, With massive arches broad and round, That rose alternate, row and row, On ponderous columns short and low. The wasting sea-breeze keen Had worn the pillar's carving quaint, And mouldered in his niche the saint,... | |
 | 1881 - 980 pages
...storey of the castle, in which was a low hall covered by vaulting of exceptional and massive ingenuity : Built ere the art was known, By pointed aisle and shafted stalk The arcades of an alleyed walk, To emulate in atone. It happened that the central pillar whereon the vaults rested, reputed... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1881 - 980 pages
...of the castle, in which was a low hall covered by vaulting of exceptional and massive ingenuity: " Built ere the art was known, By pointed aisle and shafted stalk The arcades of an alloyed walk To emulate in stone." It happened that the central pillar whereon the vaults rested, reputed... | |
 | Jabez Marrat - 1882 - 298 pages
...as it was in the years preceding the reformation, says, — 'In Saxon strength that abbey frowned, With massive arches broad and round, That rose alternate,...pointed aisle and shafted stalk, The arcades of an alleyed walk And needful was such strength to these, Exposed to the tempestuous seas, Scourged by the... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882 - 474 pages
...huge, and dark-red pile, Placed on the margin of the isle. x. In Saxon strength that Abbey frown'd, With massive arches broad and round, That rose alternate,...pointed aisle, and shafted stalk, The arcades of an alley'd walk To emulate in stone. On the deep walls, the heathen Dane Had pour'd his impious rage in... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882 - 660 pages
...Saxon strength that Abbey frowned, With massive arches broad and round, That rose alternate, row on row On ponderous columns, short and low, Built ere...pointed aisle, and shafted stalk, The arcades of an alleyed walk To emulate in stone. On the deep walls, the heathen Dane Had poured his impious rage iu... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882 - 684 pages
...Saxon strength that Abbey frowned, With massive arches broad and round, That rose alternate, row on row On ponderous columns, short and low, Built ere...pointed aisle, and shafted stalk, The arcades of an alleyed walk To emulate in stone. On the deep walls, the heathen Dane Had poured his impious rage in... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 1882 - 300 pages
...the castle, in which was a crypt-like hall covered by vaulting of exceptional and massive ingenuity: Built ere the art was known, By pointed aisle and shafted stalk The arcades of an alleyed walk, To emulate in stone. It happened that the central pillar whereon the vaults rested, reputed... | |
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With massive arches broad and round, That rose alternate, row and row, On ponderous columns, short and low, Built ere the art was known, By pointed aisle, and shafted stalk, The arcades of an alley'd walk To emulate in stone. On the deep walls, the heathen... 
