 | George King Matthews - 1854 - 264 páginas
...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 chancel, on the keystones, are some curiously carved figures... | |
 | 1854 - 380 páginas
...tracen- combined ; ' Thou wouldat have thought some faery's hud, 'Twixt poplars straight the osier vrand, in many a freakish knot had twined ; Then framed a spell 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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - 590 páginas
...of shapely stone, By toliaged tracery combined ; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the ozier wand, In many a freakish...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 Menzies (of Edinburgh.) - 1855 - 142 páginas
...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. The cloisters formed a quadrangle on the north-west... | |
 | William Wells Brown - 1855 - 338 páginas
...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. « HERE I am. within ten leagues of Paris, spending the... | |
 | 1855 - 594 páginas
...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 buildings, however beautiful they... | |
 | James Walter Wall - 1856 - 336 páginas
...of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined ; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the ozier wand, In many a freakish...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1856 - 776 páginas
...of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined ; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand Twixt poplars straight the ozier wand, In many a freakish...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,... | |
 | 1856 - 704 páginas
...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 and heads which abound throughout the ruin are many of... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 páginas
...shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined ; Thou would' st have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the ozier wand, In many a freakish...framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone. The silver light, so pale and faint, Showed many a prophet, and many a saint,... | |
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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... 
