The Ruined Abbeys of Great Britain

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Churchman, 1905 - 315 sivua
 

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73
VI
123
VII
132
VIII
152
IX
171
X
192

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Sivu 162 - Let any one reflect on the disposition of mind he finds in himself at his first entrance into the Pantheon at Rome, and how the imagination is filled with something great and amazing; and at the same time consider how little, in proportion, he is affected with the inside of a Gothic cathedral, though it be five times larger than the other, which can arise from nothing else but the greatness of the manner in the one, and the meanness in the other.
Sivu 36 - Merchant man (which shall at this time be nameless) that bought the Contents of two noble Libraries for forty shillings price ; a shame it is to be spoken. This stuff hath he occupied, instead of grey paper, by the space of more than these ten years, and yet he hath store enough for as many years to come.
Sivu 140 - In the mid revels, the first ominous night Of their espousals, when the room shone bright With lighted tapers,— the King and the Queen leading The curious measures, Lords and Ladies treading The self-same strains ; the King looks back by chance, And spies a strange intruder fill the dance ; Namely, a mere anatomy, quite bare, His naked limbs both without flesh and hair (As we decipher death), who stalks about, Keeping true measure till the dance be out.
Sivu 161 - Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone ; And Morning opes with haste her lids To gaze upon the Pyramids ; O'er England's Abbeys bends the sky As on its friends with kindred eye ; For, out of Thought's interior sphere These wonders rose to upper air, And nature gladly gave them place, Adopted them into her race, And granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat.
Sivu 22 - They may be summed up in a few words. The creation of a large class of poor to whose poverty was attached the stigma of crime ; the division of class from class, the rich mounting up to place and power, the poor sinking to lower depths ; destruction of custom as a check upon the exactions of landlords ; the loss by the * " De non temerandis Ecclesiis," English works, ed. 1723, p. 15poor of those foundations at schools and universities intended for their children, and the passing away of ecclesiastical...
Sivu 292 - Majesty good ; but rather than she will agree to use any other service than was used at the death of the late King her father, she would lay her head on a block and suffer death.
Sivu 14 - It is not impossible," writes a modem author, " that even such bad men may have told the truth in this matter : but the character of witnesses must always form an important element in estimating the value of their testimony, and the character of such obscene, profligate, and perjured witnesses as Layton and London could not well be worse. These men were not ' just Lots vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked...
Sivu 44 - ... for letters and books; and found in his study secretly laid, as well a written book of arguments against the divorce of the King's majesty and the lady dowager, which we take to be a great matter, as also divers pardons, copies of bulls, and the counterfeit life of Thomas Becket in print; but we could not find any letter that was material...
Sivu 15 - that my bill will not pass, but I will have it pass, or I will have some of your heads,' and without other rhetoric or persuasion returned to his chamber.
Sivu 61 - that Christ gave to Peter the keys of the kingdom of heaven— has he given such power to Columba?" The bishop could but answer "No." "Then will I rather obey the porter of heaven," said Oswiu, "lest when I reach its gates he who has the keys in his keeping turn his back on me, and there be none to open.

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