... all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance of the abbey, where we were received by the dean and chapter in rich robes, the choir and almsmen bearing torches; the whole abbey so illuminated, that one saw it to greater advantage than by... Correspondence of William Pitt - Pagina 97door William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1838Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
| 1818 - 762 pagina’s
...muffled, the fifes, bells tolling, and minute guns,— all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance of the abbey, where we were received...appearing distinctly, and with the happiest chiaro scuro. There wanted nothing but incense, and little diaples here and there, with priests saying mass for the... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1818 - 600 pagina’s
...muffled, the fifes, bells tolling, and minute guns, — all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance of the abbey, where we were received...appearing distinctly, and with the happiest chiaro scuro. There wanted nothing but incense, and little chapels here and there, with priests saying mass for the... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1818 - 622 pagina’s
...muffled, the fifes, bells tolling, and minute guns, — all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance of the abbey, where we were received...appearing distinctly, and with the happiest chiaro scuro. There wanted nothing but incense, and little chapels here and there, with priests saying mass for the... | |
| 1818 - 806 pagina’s
...muffled, the fifes, bells tolling, and minute guns,— all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance of the abbey, where we were received...appearing distinctly, and with the happiest chiaro scuro. There wanted nothing but incense, and little chaples here and there, with priests saying mass for the... | |
| 1818 - 606 pagina’s
...minute guns, — all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance of the abbey, where we werr received by the dean and chapter in rich robes, the...appearing distinctly, and with the happiest chiaro scuro. There wanted nothing but incense, and little chapels here and there, with priests saying mass for the... | |
| 1818 - 598 pagina’s
...muffled, the tifes, bells tolling, and minute guns, — all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance of the abbey, where we were received...the dean and chapter in rich robes, the choir and almsmea bearing torches; the whole abbey so illuminated, that one saw it to greater advantage than... | |
| 1819 - 630 pagina’s
...muffled, the fifes, bells tolling, and minute guns, — all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance of the abbey, where we were received...appearing distinctly, and with the happiest chiaro scuro. There wanted nothing but incense, and little chapels here and there, with priests saying mass for the... | |
| 1819 - 950 pagina’s
...charm wus the entrance of the Abbey, where we were received bj the Dean and Chapter in rich robes, tbe choir and almsmen bearing torches ; the whole Abbey...one saw it to greater advantage than by day ; the touibs, long aisles, and fretted roof, all appearing distinctly, and with the happiest chiaro scuro.... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1820 - 526 pagina’s
...muffled, the fifes, bells tolling, and minute guns, — all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance of the abbey, where we were received...roof, all appearing distinctly, and with the happiest chiara scuro. There wanted nothing but incense, and little chapels here and and there, with priests... | |
| Robert Huish - 1821 - 746 pagina’s
...muffled, the fifes, bells tolling, and minute guns — all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance of the Abbey, where we were received...saw it to greater advantage than by day ; the tombs, long1 aisles, and fretted roof, all appearing distinctly, and with the happiest chiaro obscuru. There... | |
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