 ... all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance of the abbey, where we were received by the dean and chapter in rich robes, the choir and almsmen bearing torches; the whole abbey so illuminated, that one saw it to greater advantage than by...  Correspondence of William Pitt - Sida 97efter William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1838Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1818 - 762 sidor
...muffled, the fifes, bells tolling, and minute guns,— all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance of the abbey, where we were received...appearing distinctly, and with the happiest chiaro scuro. There wanted nothing but incense, and little diaples here and there, with priests saying mass for the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1818 - 600 sidor
...muffled, the fifes, bells tolling, and minute guns, — all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance of the abbey, where we were received...appearing distinctly, and with the happiest chiaro scuro. There wanted nothing but incense, and little chapels here and there, with priests saying mass for the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1818 - 622 sidor
...muffled, the fifes, bells tolling, and minute guns, — all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance of the abbey, where we were received...appearing distinctly, and with the happiest chiaro scuro. There wanted nothing but incense, and little chapels here and there, with priests saying mass for the... | |
 | 1818 - 806 sidor
...muffled, the fifes, bells tolling, and minute guns,— all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance of the abbey, where we were received...appearing distinctly, and with the happiest chiaro scuro. There wanted nothing but incense, and little chaples here and there, with priests saying mass for the... | |
 | 1818 - 606 sidor
...minute guns, — all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance of the abbey, where we werr received by the dean and chapter in rich robes, the...appearing distinctly, and with the happiest chiaro scuro. There wanted nothing but incense, and little chapels here and there, with priests saying mass for the... | |
 | 1818 - 598 sidor
...muffled, the tifes, bells tolling, and minute guns, — all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance of the abbey, where we were received...the dean and chapter in rich robes, the choir and almsmea bearing torches; the whole abbey so illuminated, that one saw it to greater advantage than... | |
 | 1819 - 630 sidor
...muffled, the fifes, bells tolling, and minute guns, — all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance of the abbey, where we were received...appearing distinctly, and with the happiest chiaro scuro. There wanted nothing but incense, and little chapels here and there, with priests saying mass for the... | |
 | 1819 - 950 sidor
...charm wus the entrance of the Abbey, where we were received bj the Dean and Chapter in rich robes, tbe choir and almsmen bearing torches ; the whole Abbey...one saw it to greater advantage than by day ; the touibs, long aisles, and fretted roof, all appearing distinctly, and with the happiest chiaro scuro.... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1820 - 526 sidor
...muffled, the fifes, bells tolling, and minute guns, — all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance of the abbey, where we were received...roof, all appearing distinctly, and with the happiest chiara scuro. There wanted nothing but incense, and little chapels here and and there, with priests... | |
 | Robert Huish - 1821 - 746 sidor
...muffled, the fifes, bells tolling, and minute guns — all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance of the Abbey, where we were received...saw it to greater advantage than by day ; the tombs, long1 aisles, and fretted roof, all appearing distinctly, and with the happiest chiaro obscuru. There... | |
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