... 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 - Página 97por William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1838Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1818 - 762 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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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