work is plain and good. A severe self-restrainteverywhere forces the loving ardour of these wifelessand childless builders to flow in narrow channels.The zeal of the sacred house is eating them up, butthey have to hold their eager hands from lofty tower choir was without aisles, though the usual… … RliVAUI.X ABBEY. THE CHOIR, LOOKING NORTH. and lavish decoration, and spend themselves uponthe perfect utterance of lowly thoughts. Robert, Alberic, Stephen, and Bernard, weremonastic Puritans. Not only their churches and thedresses and diet of their monks were plain and humble,but their very…
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