The Voyage: And Other English Essays from the Sketch BookHoughton, Mifflin, 1891 - 147 sider |
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... chapel in the old wing of the house , where I found the principal part of the family already assembled in a kind of gallery , furnished with cushions , hassocks , and large prayer - books ; the ser- vants were seated on benches below ...
... chapel in the old wing of the house , where I found the principal part of the family already assembled in a kind of gallery , furnished with cushions , hassocks , and large prayer - books ; the ser- vants were seated on benches below ...
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... chapel that bears his name . Additions and changes have been made at intervals throughout its history . Its extreme length is 511 feet ; its extreme width , 203 feet . roof is 102 feet . Its shape is that of a cross . abbey has at all ...
... chapel that bears his name . Additions and changes have been made at intervals throughout its history . Its extreme length is 511 feet ; its extreme width , 203 feet . roof is 102 feet . Its shape is that of a cross . abbey has at all ...
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... chapel , if not completed by Edward , were all begun , and finished in the next generation on the same plan . This structure , venerable as it would be if it had lasted to our time , has almost entirely vanished . Possibly one vast dark ...
... chapel , if not completed by Edward , were all begun , and finished in the next generation on the same plan . This structure , venerable as it would be if it had lasted to our time , has almost entirely vanished . Possibly one vast dark ...
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... chapels , but which are now occupied by the tombs and monuments of the great . At every turn , I met with some illustrious name , or the cognizance of some pow- erful house renowned in history . As the eye darts into these dusky ...
... chapels , but which are now occupied by the tombs and monuments of the great . At every turn , I met with some illustrious name , or the cognizance of some pow- erful house renowned in history . As the eye darts into these dusky ...
Side 96
... chapel to chapel . The day was gradually 1 Lady Elizabeth Nightingale , who died in 1731. The monu- ment , which was erected in 1758 , is by Louis François Roubillac ( or Roubiliac ) , a French sculptor ( 1695-1762 ) . wearing away ...
... chapel to chapel . The day was gradually 1 Lady Elizabeth Nightingale , who died in 1731. The monu- ment , which was erected in 1758 , is by Louis François Roubillac ( or Roubiliac ) , a French sculptor ( 1695-1762 ) . wearing away ...
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Side 104 - The time must come when its gilded vaults, which now spring so loftily, shall lie in rubbish beneath the feet; when, instead of the sound of melody and praise, the wind shall whistle through the broken arches, and the owl hoot from the shattered tower — when the garish sunbeam shall break into these gloomy mansions of death; and the ivy twine round the fallen column; and the fox-glove hang its blossoms about the nameless urn, as if in mockery of the dead. Thus man passes away; his name perishes...
Side 13 - THE stranger who would form a correct opinion of the English character must not confine his observations to the metropolis. He must go forth into the country; he must sojourn in villages and hamlets; he must visit castles, villas, farm-houses, cottages; he must wander through parks and gardens; along hedges and green lanes; he must loiter about country churches; attend wakes...
Side 5 - To an American visiting Europe, the long voyage he has to make is an excellent preparative. The temporary absence of worldly scenes and employments produces a state of mind peculiarly fitted to receive new and vivid impressions.
Side 8 - ... this spar, to prevent their being .washed off by the waves. There was no trace by which the name of the ship could be ascertained. The wreck had evidently drifted about for many months ; clusters of shell-fish had fastened about it, and long sea-weeds flaunted at its sides. But where, thought I, is the crew...
Side 103 - ... but a treasury of humiliation; a huge pile of reiterated homilies on the emptiness of renown, and the certainty of oblivion! It is, indeed, the empire of death; his great shadowy palace, where he sits in state, mocking at the relics of human glory, and spreading dust and forgetfulness on the monuments of princes. How idle a boast, after all, is the immortality of a name! Time is ever silently turning over his pages; we are too much engrossed by the story of the present, to think of the characters...
Side 93 - ... the intercourse between the author and his fellow-men is ever new, active, and immediate. He has lived for them more than for himself; he has sacrificed surrounding enjoyments, and shut himself up from the delights oí social life, that he might the more intimately commune with distant minds and distant ages.
Side 19 - Leaf" of Chaucer and have brought into our closets all the freshness and fragrance of the dewy landscape. The pastoral writers of other countries appear as if they had paid Nature an occasional visit, and become acquainted with her general charms; but the British poets have lived and reveled with her — they have wooed her in her most secret haunts — they have watched her minutest caprices.
Side 3 - Europe held forth the charms of storied and poetical association, There were to be seen the masterpieces of art. the refinements of highly cultivated society, the quaint peculiarities of ancient and local custom. My native country was full of youthful promise ; Europe was rich in the accumulated treasures of age- Her very ruins told the history of times gone by,, and every mouldering stone was a chronicle.
Side 1 - I WAS always fond of visiting new scenes, and observing, strange characters and manners. Even when a mere child I began my travels, and made many tours of discovery into foreign parts and unknown regions of my native city, to the frequent alarm of my parents, and the emolument of the town-crier.
Side 20 - The effect of this devotion of elegant minds to rural occupations, has been wonderful on the face of the country. A great part of the island is rather level, and would be monotonous, were it not for the charms of culture ; but it is studded and gemmed, as it were, with castles and palaces, and embroidered with parks and gardens. It does not abound in grand and sublime prospects, but rather in little home scenes of rural repose and sheltered quiet.