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Page 31
... palace . Thorwaldsen's font is in the chancel , a present to the isle from which his family It is beautiful as regards sculptured detail , but bad in came . general design , the motif being a Pagan altar . THE CATHEDRAL . 31.
... palace . Thorwaldsen's font is in the chancel , a present to the isle from which his family It is beautiful as regards sculptured detail , but bad in came . general design , the motif being a Pagan altar . THE CATHEDRAL . 31.
Page 34
... beautiful . There is no great variety in design , and they are modelled from old examples in the national style of art . A right principle prevents them from becoming vulgar . A firm outline is sought , and within its restraints ...
... beautiful . There is no great variety in design , and they are modelled from old examples in the national style of art . A right principle prevents them from becoming vulgar . A firm outline is sought , and within its restraints ...
Page 49
... beautiful incidents of this saga I shall re- late for the benefit of the reader , premising first of all , that the hero , Egill Skallagrímsson ( pronounced Ey - il Skadlagreems- son ) , had fought with King Athelstan against the Scotch ...
... beautiful incidents of this saga I shall re- late for the benefit of the reader , premising first of all , that the hero , Egill Skallagrímsson ( pronounced Ey - il Skadlagreems- son ) , had fought with King Athelstan against the Scotch ...
Page 53
... beautiful elegy on your son Böthvar , and for me to carve it in runes on oaken staves ; after which we can die , if the fancy takes us . I do not think my brother Thorstein quite the man to make much of a poem on our poor Böthvar , and ...
... beautiful elegy on your son Böthvar , and for me to carve it in runes on oaken staves ; after which we can die , if the fancy takes us . I do not think my brother Thorstein quite the man to make much of a poem on our poor Böthvar , and ...
Page 68
... beautiful , but tinged with melancholy , from the deficiency of life and vegetation . Standing on the spot from which I described the landscape * Probably the last execution of this kind in Greenland was that of Kolgrim in 1407 . last ...
... beautiful , but tinged with melancholy , from the deficiency of life and vegetation . Standing on the spot from which I described the landscape * Probably the last execution of this kind in Greenland was that of Kolgrim in 1407 . last ...
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