 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1854 - 584 páginas
...hand, 'Twixt poplars straight the osier wand, 1n. many a freakish knot had twined ; Then framed a siKil when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone." The figures and heads which abound throughout the ruin are some of them very beautiful, and others singularly... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1854 - 582 páginas
...of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined ; Thou wouliUt have thought some fairy's hand, 'Twixt poplars straight the osier wand, In many a freakish knot had twined ; Then framed as[>ell when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone.'* The figures and heads... | |
 | George King Matthews - 1854 - 264 páginas
...shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined; Thou would'st 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 wreath to stone." In the roof of the... | |
 | 1855 - 594 páginas
...of shapely stone, By foliated 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 dore, And changed the willow wreaths to stone. But descriptions of... | |
 | John Menzies (of Edinburgh.) - 1855 - 142 páginas
...uses the no less beautiful than just figure — " 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.'' Lay of the Last Minstrel.... | |
 | William Wells Brown - 1855 - 338 páginas
...of shapely 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 was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone." SIR WALTEK SCOTT.... | |
 | Andrew Dickinson - 1856 - 234 páginas
...of shapely stone, By foliage tracery combined ; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand *Twixt poplars straight the osier wand, In many a freakish...done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone !" The beautifully fretted stone roof over the east end of the nave still remains, springing skyward " On... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1856 - 776 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 silver light, so pale and fault, Show'd many a prophet, and many a saint, Whose image on the glass was dyed ; Full in the midst,... | |
 | 1856 - 704 páginas
...of shapely stone, By loliape trncery 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, when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone.' The carved figures... | |
 | James Walter Wall - 1856 - 336 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, tP atone," Melrose Abbey was founded by David I., of Scotland, somewhere in the year 1136. The English... | |
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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 osier wand In many a freakish knot had twined; Then framed a spell, when the... 
