 | 1818 - 762 pages
...horseback, the drums muffled, the fifes, bells tolling, and minute guns,— all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance of the abbey, where we...appearing distinctly, and with the happiest chiaro scuro. There wanted nothing but incense, and little diaples here and there, with priests saying mass... | |
 | 1818 - 806 pages
...horseback, the drums muffled, the fifes, bells tolling, and minute guns,— all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance of the abbey, where we...appearing distinctly, and with the happiest chiaro scuro. There wanted nothing but incense, and little chaples here and there, with priests saying mass... | |
 | 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 pages
...horseback, the drums muffled, the fifes, bells tolling, and minute guns, — all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance of the abbey, where we...appearing distinctly, and with the happiest chiaro scuro. There wanted nothing but incense, and little chapels here and there, with priests saying mass... | |
 | 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 pages
...horseback, the drums muffled, the fifes, bells tolling, and minute guns, — all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance of the abbey, where we...appearing distinctly, and with the happiest chiaro scuro. There wanted nothing but incense, and little chapels here and there, with priests saying mass... | |
 | 1818 - 606 pages
...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... | |
 | 1818 - 598 pages
...horseback, the drums muffled, the tifes, bells tolling, and minute guns, — all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance of the abbey, where we...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 pages
...horseback, the drums muffled, the fifes, bells tolling, and minute guns, — all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance of the abbey, where we...appearing distinctly, and with the happiest chiaro scuro. There wanted nothing but incense, and little chapels here and there, with priests saying mass... | |
 | 1819 - 950 pages
...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 pages
...horseback, the drums muffled, the fifes, bells tolling, and minute guns, — all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance of the abbey, where we...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 pages
...horseback, the drums muffled, the fifes, bells tolling, and minute guns — all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance of the Abbey, where we...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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... minute guns, — 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... 
