| 1844 - 788 páginas
...shafts of shapely stone, By foliage tracery comhined. Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand, Twixt poplars straight the osier wand, In many a freakish knot had twined ; Then framed a spell when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone." SCOTT. Why, then,... | |
| William Coombs Dana - 1845 - 408 páginas
...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 changed the willow wreaths to etone." Within the chancel, a slab of dark green marble marks the spot where it is believed that King... | |
| Robert William Billings - 1845 - 202 páginas
...of stately stone, By foliaged tracery combined : Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand 'Twist poplars straight the osier wand In many a freakish knot had twined, Then framed a spell when the work waa done, And changed the willow wreathes to stone." The absence of distant... | |
| 1847 - 796 páginas
...fairy's hand, 'Twixt poplar straight, the osier wand, In many a freakish knot had twin'd ; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone !' After this manner, I say, were chapels constructed of old, as witness that of Henry the Seventh... | |
| Jean Froissart - 1847 - 378 páginas
...of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined ; Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand, *Twixt poplars straight the osier 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... | |
| Gallery - 1848 - 306 páginas
...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 changed the willow wreaths to stone." The view of an ancient church like this, forcibly suggests to the mind of the spectator Mrs. Hemans's noble... | |
| Robert Kemp Philp - 408 páginas
...of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined j Thou wouldst have thought Borne fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the osier 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 light ornamental... | |
| Edward Augustus Freeman - 1849 - 528 páginas
...of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined ; Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the osier wand, In many a freakish knot had twined. Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone." And this testimony... | |
| 1854 - 428 páginas
...fairy's hand 'Twist poplan straight tho osier wanJ In many a freakish knot had twined ; Then framed a spell when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to itone. But descriptions of buildings, however beautiful they may be, are at best uninteresting ; and... | |
| Thomas Earnshaw Bradley - 932 páginas
...of the fourteenth century. Of it may be said: — " Thou wouldst have thought some fairy hand 'Twixt poplars straight the osier wand In many a freakish knot had twined; Then framed a spell when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone." • Browne's History... | |
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