 | England - 1818 - 762 pages
...tolling, and minute guns,— 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,...appearing distinctly, and with the happiest chiaro scuro. There wanted nothing but incense, and little diaples here and there, with priests saying mass... | |
 | 1818 - 806 pages
...tolling, and minute guns,— 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,...appearing distinctly, and with the happiest chiaro scuro. There wanted nothing but incense, and little chaples here and there, with priests saying mass... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1818 - 600 pages
...tolling, and minute guns, — 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,...appearing distinctly, and with the happiest chiaro scuro. There wanted nothing but incense, and little chapels here and there, with priests saying mass... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1818 - 622 pages
...tolling, and minute guns, — 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,...appearing distinctly, and with the happiest chiaro scuro. There wanted nothing but incense, and little chapels here and there, with priests saying mass... | |
 | English literature - 1818 - 606 pages
...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... | |
 | 1818 - 598 pages
...tolling, and minute guns, — 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 almsmea bearing torches; the whole abbey so illuminated, that one saw it to greater advantage than... | |
 | 1819 - 630 pages
...tolling, and minute guns, — 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,...appearing distinctly, and with the happiest chiaro scuro. There wanted nothing but incense, and little chapels here and there, with priests saying mass... | |
 | English literature - 1819 - 950 pages
...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 pages
...tolling, and minute guns, — 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,...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 - Great Britain - 1821 - 746 pages
...tolling, and minute guns — 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...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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... 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... 
