Westminster abbey and the cathedrals of England (1895)
Farrar, Frederic William, 1831-1903, Milman, Henry Hart, 1791-1868, Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn, 1815-1881 · Philadelphia : J. C. Winston & co. · leaf 20
tracery,and wall-surface decoration,and he traces in these varia-tions the character andtendencies of the ages to which they belong. I once went over the whole Abbey with the late vSir GilbertScott, and he had fifty things to point out which no ordinary observer wouldhave thought of noticing. To… … BIONUMENT TO SH.\KESPEARE. 14 Westminster Abbey. adequately we must have the miud and emotions of the poet, such as Wordsworth,when he says in his famous sonnet,— They dreamt not of a perishable homeWho thus could build ! Be mine, in hours of fearOr grovelling thought, to seek a refuge here.Or…
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