The Ruined Abbeys of YorkshireSeeley and Company, limited, 1891 - 296 pagina's |
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... interest our- selves in that which we have ignored a hundred times at home . In the Vatican , the Pitti Palace , the Brera , the Louvre , we are familiar , for instance , with a figure , draped now in white and now in black , sometimes ...
... interest our- selves in that which we have ignored a hundred times at home . In the Vatican , the Pitti Palace , the Brera , the Louvre , we are familiar , for instance , with a figure , draped now in white and now in black , sometimes ...
Pagina 5
... interest appeals to men and women of every creed but that of sheer stupidity . In York , where the very names of streets are monuments of antiquity , and the relics of Roman , Saxon , and Dane are gathered under the shadow of one of the ...
... interest appeals to men and women of every creed but that of sheer stupidity . In York , where the very names of streets are monuments of antiquity , and the relics of Roman , Saxon , and Dane are gathered under the shadow of one of the ...
Pagina 12
... interest . We cannot do better than borrow largely , though with certain necessary modifications , from Professor Willis's ac- count of the Conventual Buildings of Canterbury . We will take the cloister - court as our nucleus . To the ...
... interest . We cannot do better than borrow largely , though with certain necessary modifications , from Professor Willis's ac- count of the Conventual Buildings of Canterbury . We will take the cloister - court as our nucleus . To the ...
Pagina 53
... interest to antiquaries . The pulpit from which one of the monks must always read to his brethren during dinner is approached , as usual , by a straight staircase inside the frater , but any one who will take the trouble to mount the ...
... interest to antiquaries . The pulpit from which one of the monks must always read to his brethren during dinner is approached , as usual , by a straight staircase inside the frater , but any one who will take the trouble to mount the ...
Pagina 54
... interest . Here , in these blank and broken lancets , is said to have glowed in the twelfth century some of the earliest English stained glass ; and hence , in the days of Ailred , went forth the colony which founded the first ...
... interest . Here , in these blank and broken lancets , is said to have glowed in the twelfth century some of the earliest English stained glass ; and hence , in the days of Ailred , went forth the colony which founded the first ...
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Abbot Agatha's aisleless aisles altar antiquaries Archbishop architecture beauty Benedict Benedictine Bernard Bernoldswic Bishop Bolton brethren buildings built BYLAND ABBEY called canons Carthusian castle cathedral cellarium chapel chapter chapter-house choir chronicler Cistercian Abbey Cistercian house Citeaux Clairvaux cloister conversi door dorter Early English east eastern arm England feet FOUNTAINS ABBEY frater friar garden Gothic ground Guisborough hall Henry Hilda holy infirmary JERVAULX ABBEY John King Kirkham KIRKSTALL ABBEY kitchen lancets land latter Lord Mary Mary's Micklethwaite monastery monastic ruins monasticism monks mouldings MOUNT GRACE PRIORY nave Norman original perhaps Peter picturesque pointed arches Premonstratensian presbytery remains Richmond RIEVAULX ABBEY Roche Abbey rocks rule Savigny says secular seems Serlo side Stephen Harding stone stream tercian thought Thurstan tion tower transept triforium twelfth century valley vaulted wall Walter l'Espec Whitby WHITBY ABBEY wooded York Yorkshire
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Pagina 208 - Osiris, took the virgin truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down, gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them.
Pagina 75 - Out of the gospel he tho wordes caughte, And this figure he added eek therto, That if gold ruste, what shal iren do?