 | James Easton - 1825 - 116 páginas
...As many marble pillars here appear As there are hours throughout the fleeting year; As many gates, as moons, one year does view — Strange tale to tell ! yet not more strange than true. CHORAL BISHOPS. Before we leave the cathedral, it may afford some entertainment to add a few particulars... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1825 - 426 páginas
...pillars here appear, e As there are hours throughout the fleeting' year ; As many gate* as moons one here does view, Strange tale to tell ! yet not more strange than true. The tower has sixteen lights ; four on each side, -and its. ornaments are judiciously adapted, to the... | |
 | John Brady - 1826 - 312 páginas
...As many marble pillars there appear As there are hours throughout the fleeting year ; As many gates as moons one year does view : Strange tale to tell, yet not more strange than true .'" The foundation of this stately edifice was laid by Kandulph, the Pope's legate, who placed one... | |
 | Benjamin Winkles - 1836 - 412 páginas
...As many marble pillars here appear As there are hours throughout the fleeting year : As many gates as moons one year does view, Strange tale to tell, yet not more strange than true. The uniformity of style in the architecture of this sublime and majestic edifice, it is admitted, adds... | |
 | Miscellaneous extracts - 1839 - 390 páginas
...As many marble pillars there appear, As there are hours throughout the fleeting year ; As many gates as moons one year does view : Strange tale to tell, yet not more strange than, true." 150 STONEHENG is reckoned one of the most remarkable antiquities in this kingdom. Antiquaries have... | |
 | John Alonzo Clark - 1840 - 588 páginas
...pillars here appear, As there are hours throughout the fleeting year ; As many gates as moons one here does view ; Strange tale to tell ! yet not more strange than true." Another object of interest in the neighbourhood of Salisbury is Stonehenge, distant about seven miles,... | |
 | Thomas Moule - 1851 - 400 páginas
...see; As many marble pillars hero appear As there are hours throughout the iloeting year: As many gates as moons one year does view, Strange tale to tell, yet not more strange than true. The uniformity of style in the architecture of this sublime and majestic edifice, it is admitted, adds... | |
 | John Wilson (writer on astronomy.) - 1856 - 548 páginas
...pillars here appear As there are hours throughout the fleeting year ; As many pates as moons one here does view ; Strange tale to tell ! yet not more strange than true." Between Ashbourne and Buxton in Derbyshire is a circle of stones, or Druidical temple, called Arbe... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1859 - 300 páginas
...marble pillars here appear, As thei'e are hours through the fleeting As many gates as moous one here does view, Strange tale to tell, yet not more strange than true." The W. front, although dennded of more than 100 statues, is a rich and beautiful piece of architecture,... | |
 | Appleton D. and co - 1870 - 746 páginas
...pillars here appear As there are hours throughout the fleeting year ; As many gates as moons one here does view ; Strange tale to tell! yet not more strange than true." The number of pillars will be accounted for, to those who know the style in which it is built, by the... | |
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As many days as in one year there be, So many windows in this church we see; As many marble pillars here appear As there are hours throughout the fleeting year; As many gates as moons one year does view — Strange tale to tell! yet not more strange than... 
