 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 1104 pages
...tracery combined ; Thou would Bt have thought some fairy s hand 1 Twixt poplars straight the ozier wand. In many a freakish knot, had twined; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed the willow-wreaths to stone. The silver light, so pale and faint, Show'd many a prophet, and many a saint,... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1835 - 594 pages
...Minstrel : — " The moon on the east oriel* shone Through slender shafts of shapely stone By toliaged tracery combined ; Thou wouldst have thought some...; Then framed a spell when the work was done, And turn'd the willow wreaths to stone." In the fourteenth century the first specimens of square windows... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1835 - 570 pages
...— 221 " The i) loi ni on the east oriel* shone Through slender shafts of shapely stone By foliaged tracery combined ; Thou wouldst have thought some...; Then framed a spell when the work was done, And turn'd the willow wreaths to stone." v In the fourteenth century the first specimens of square windows... | |
 | William Caveler - 1835 - 184 pages
...late lamented bard, " Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the ozier wand In many a freakish knot had twined, Then framed...was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone." The Abbey Church is built in the form of a Latin cross, but the ground plan is not quite uniform, as... | |
 | Alexander Whitelaw - 1835 - 476 pages
...east oriel shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined ; Thou wouldat have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight...a freakish knot had twined ; Then framed a spell, v hen the work was done, And changed the willow-wreaths to stone. At the time of the Reformation the... | |
 | Leitch Ritchie - 1835 - 356 pages
...moon on the east oriel shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliag'd tracery combin'd ; Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt...poplars straight the osier wand, In many a freakish wreath had twin'd ; Then framed a spell when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone.... | |
 | Leitch Ritchie - 1835 - 350 pages
...shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stune, By foliag'd tracery eombin'd ; Thon wouldst have thuught some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the osier wand, In many a freakish wreath had twin'd ; Then framed a spell when the work was done. And changed the willow wreaths to stone.... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1835 - 380 pages
...lowly laid ! XI. The moon on the east oriel shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined ; Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the ozier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined ; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1837 - 414 pages
...inexhaustible variety of beautiful forms of open work. As Sir Walter Scott has beautifully described it — " Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand, 'Twixt...was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone." As the older masters often repeated their best pieces, the circumstance of there being two or three... | |
 | Walter Scott, J. W. Lake - 1838 - 496 pages
...moon on the east oriel »hone9 Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged traceryfcombined: Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand Twixt...was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone. The silver light, so pale and faint, Showed many a prophet, and many a saint, Whose image on the glass... | |
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The moon on the east oriel shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined ; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand, "Twixt poplars straight, the osier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined ; Then framed a spell,... 
