The History Civil and Ecclesiastical, & Suruey of the Antiquities, of Winchester, Band 2Jas. Robbins, and sold in London by Cadell and Davies, ... J. Richardson ... Keating, Brown, & Keating, ... and Joseph Booker, 1809 |
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Seite 84 - Or the unseen genius of the wood. But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embow-ed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.
Seite 84 - With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow To the full-voiced quire below In service high and anthems clear As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes.
Seite 130 - Sodales Eja ! quid silemus ? Nobile canticum ! Dulce melos, domum ! Dulce domum resonemus ! Chorus. Domum, domum, dulce domum ! Domum, domum, dulce domum ! Dulce, dulce, dulce domum ! Dulce domum resonemus.
Seite 149 - Others are in the horse-shoe form, of which the entrance into the north porch is the most curious specimen. In one place we have a curious triangular arch. The capitals and bases of the columns alternately vary in their form as well as in their ornaments. The...
Seite 153 - In like manner, large east and west windows beginning to obtain about the reign of Edward I. required that they should have numerous divisions or mullions, which, as well as the ribs and transoms of the vaulting, began to ramify. into a great variety of tracery, according to the architect's taste, being all of them uniformly ornamented with the trefoil or cinquefoil head.
Seite 150 - Chriftians, endeavoured to build their churches in imitation of the fpreading and interlacing boughs of the groves in which they had been accuftomed to perform their Pagan rites in their native country of Scandinavia, and that they employed for this purpofe Saracen architects, whofe exotic ftyle fuited their purpofe." The Vifigoths conquered Spain and became Chriftians in the fifth century ; of courfe they began at the fame time to build churches there. The Saracens did not arrive in Spain until...
Seite 149 - ... others profusely embellished, and in different styles, even within the same arch. Here we view almost every kind of Saxon and Norman ornament, the chevron, the billet, the hatched, the pellet, the fret, the indented, the nebule, the wavey, all superiorly executed.
Seite 149 - The capitals and bases of the columns alternately vary in their form as well as in their ornaments. The same circumstance is observable in the ribs of the arches, especially in the north and south aisles, some of them being plain, others profusely embellished, and in different styles, even within the same arch.
Seite 242 - Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it, and to thee I will give the keys of the kingdom of heaven'?
Seite 13 - Of the fame date and workmanfhip are the whole of feveral windows in both tranfepts, being large and well proportioned, with circular heads, ornamented with the billetted mouldings, and fupported, on each fide, by a plain Saxon pillar, with a rude kind of fquare frieze and cornice, refembling thofe which are feen between the lights in the tower. The alterations that have been introduced into the tranfepts, fince the time of Walkelin, are chiefly found in the windows. A great proportion of thefe have...