The Cathedrals of Great Britain, Their History and ArchitectureJ.M. Dent, 1902 - 452 頁 |
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Abbey Abbot aisle altar ancient arcade Archbishop arches architecture bays beautiful builders built by Bishop buttresses carved Cathedral central tower Chantry Chapel of St chapter-house choir church clerestory cloisters crypt curious Dean Decorated period Decorated style destroyed door doorway Early Decorated east end east window Edward Edward III effigy England erected famous figures finished foliage formerly fourteenth century glass Gothic Gothic art Henry Henry VIII inserted interesting John King Lady Chapel lancet windows lancets lierne vault Lord memory minster modern monastery monastic monks monuments mouldings nave niches noble north aisle north and south north side notice octagonal ornament Palace Paul's Perpendicular period Perpendicular style Perpendicular windows piers porch presbytery Queen rebuilt remains reredos restored Richard roof Saxon screen sculptured sedilia shafts shrine south aisle South Choir Aisle south side south transept spire stalls stone storeys thirteenth century tomb tracery triforium vault vestry Virgin wall west end west front William
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第 18 頁 - For at one time, in one and the same ranke, foot by foot and elbow by elbow, shall you see walking the knight, the gull, the gallant, the upstart, the gentleman, the clown, the captain, the appel-squire, the lawyer, the usurer, the citizen, the bankrupt, the scholar, the beggar, the doctor, the idiot, the ruffian, the cheater, the Puritan, the cut-throat...
第 396 頁 - Greenyard* pulpit, and the service books and singing books that could be had, were carried to the fire in the public market-place ; a lewd wretch walking before the train, in his cope trailing in the dirt, with a service book in his hand, imitating in an impious scorn the tune and usurping the words of the Litany used formerly in the Church...
第 396 頁 - Lord, what work was here ! what clattering of glasses ! what beating down of walls ! what tearing up of monuments ! what pulling down of seats ! what wresting out of irons and brass from the windows and graves ! what defacing of arms ! what demolishing of curious stone-work, that had not any representation in the world, but only of the cost of the founder, and skill of the mason...
第 25 頁 - Prat that it had ben so built ab origine for an effect in perspective, in regard of the height ; but I was, with Dr. Wren, quite of another judgment, and so we entered it ; we plumb'd the uprights in severall places.
第 116 頁 - As many days as in one year there be, So many windows in one church we see ; As many marble pillars there appear, As there are hours throughout the fleeting year ; As many gates as moons one year do view : Strange tale to tell, yet not more strange than true.
第 25 頁 - Paul's flew like granados, the melting lead running down the streets in a stream, and the very pavements glowing with fiery redness, so as no horse nor man was able to tread on them ; and the demolition had stopped all the passages, so that no help could be applied, the eastern wind still more impetuously driving the flames forward.
第 22 頁 - The daring flames peeped in and saw from far The awful beauties of the sacred quire,; But, since it was profaned by civil war, Heaven thought it fit to have it purged by fire.
第 114 頁 - St. Nicholas, St. George, the patron Saint of England ; St. Christopher, St. Sebastian, St. Cosmo, St. Damian, St. Margaret, St. Ursula, St. John the Baptist ; St. Stephen, the proto-martyr ; and the four virgins — St. Lucy, St. Agatha, St. Agnes and St. Cecilia. The Tier of Worthies distinctively belonging to the English Church. — Bishop Giles de Bridport, bishop of the diocese at the time of the consecration of the Cathedral ; Bishop Richard Poore...
第 375 頁 - Twice over, but at length his own time came, What he for others did, for him the same Was done : no doubt his soule doth live for aye, In heaven, though here his body clad in clay.
第 45 頁 - The very walls are wrought into universal ornament, encrusted with tracery, and scooped into niches, crowded with the statues of saints and martyrs. Stone seems, by the cunning labour of the chisel, to have been robbed of its weight and density, suspended aloft, as if by magic, and the fretted roof achieved with the wonderful minuteness and airy security of a cobweb.