| John Benjamin Firth - 1916 - 482 sidor
...plays the Gothic fountain : — Amidst the court, a Gothic fountain played, Symmetrical, but decked with carvings quaint — Strange faces, like to men...here perhaps a monster, there a saint : The spring gushed through grim mouths of granite made, And sparkled into basins, where it spent Its little torrent... | |
| 1860 - 964 sidor
...saint : Tho spring rushed through grim months of granito rude, And sparkled into basins, where it spent Its little torrent in a thousand bubbles, Like man's vain glory, and his vainer troubles.' "Around this quadrangle were low, van] teil cloisters, with Gothic arches, once the secluded walks... | |
| Bernard G. Beatty - 1985 - 264 sidor
...spring which . . . gush'd through grim mouths, of granite made, And sparkled into basins, where it spent Its little torrent in a thousand bubbles, Like man's vain glory, and his vainer troubles. (XIII, 65) Here the still flowing fountain belonging to the old abbey is linked with the 'lucid lake'... | |
| 232 sidor
...fact : — I've heard it, — once perhaps too much. 8o Amidst the court a Gothic fountain play'd. Symmetrical, but deck'd with carvings quaint — •...: The spring gush'd through grim mouths of granite made, And sparkled into basins, where it spent 86 Its little torrent in a thousand bubbles, Like man's... | |
| 1853 - 792 sidor
...in full his rich description : "Amidst the court a Gothic fountain played, Symmetrical, yet decked with carvings quaint, Strange faces, like to men in...here perhaps a monster^ there a saint. The spring gushed through grim mouths of granite made, And sparkled into basins, where it spent Its little torrent... | |
| Francis Orpen Morris - 1880 - 262 sidor
...nestled in the brake "Amidst the court a Gothic fountain play'd, Symmetrical, but deck'd with earrings quaint— Strange faces, like to men in masquerade, And here perhaps a monster, there a usant : The spring gush'd through grim mouths of granite made, And sparkled into basins, where it spent... | |
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