...With base and capital furnish'd around, Seem'd bundles of lances which garlands had bound. * * * * The moon on the east oriel shone, Through slender...the osier wand In many a freakish knot had twined ; Tlien framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed the willow-wreaths to stone. At the time...

...refers, in his description of Melrose Abbey, in the Lay of 'the Last Minstrel: — 117 " The i)loini on the east oriel* shone Through slender shafts of...twined; 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...

...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...

...thine, dark Knight of Liddesdale ! O fading honours of the dead ! O high ambition, lowly laid! XI. The moon on the east oriel shone, Through slender...stone, By foliaged tracery combined ; Thou wouldst Lave thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the ozier wand, In many a freakish knot, had...

...With base and capital furnish'd around, Seem'd bundles of lances which garlands had bound. * * + * The moon on the east oriel shone, Through slender...shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined j Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the osier wand In many a freakish...

...trim, With base and with capital flourished around, Seem'd bundles of lances which garlands had bound. The 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...

...trim, With base and with capital flourished around, Scem'd bundles of lances which garlands had hound. The moon on the east oriel shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliag'd tracery combin'd ; Thou wouldftt have thought some fairy's hand Twixt poplars straight the...

...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...

...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...

...aisle, has not been compelled to think of the wicker temples of the Saxons, and that some magician '"Twixt poplars straight, the osier wand, In many a freakish knot had tied, Then framed a spell when the work was done, That changed the willow wreath to stone .'" Among...