The art reader, prepared for supplementary reading in public and private schools, with illustrations of some of the masterpieces of painting, sculpture, and architecture (1905)
Quinn, Patrick Edward, 1862-1926 · Boston, A. W. Elson & co. · leaf 260
itres ;and nobles in robes and coronets, lying as it were in state.In glancing over this scene so strangely populous, yetwhere every form is so still and silent, it seems almost asif we were treading a mansion of that fabled city, whereevery being had been suddenly transmuted into stone. The same… … _iJ;rf WESTMINSTER ABBEY 147 infinitely more impressive on my feelings than the fan-ciful attitudes, the overwrought conceits, and allegoricalgroups, which abound on modern monuments. I have beenstruck, also, with the superiority of many of the old sepul-chral inscriptions. There was a noble way,…
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