 | Thomas Earnshaw Bradley - 932 páginas
...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 of the Metropolitan Church of St Peter, York, 1839. The usual entrance is on the... | |
 | Andrew Dickinson - 1851 - 234 páginas
...shafts of shapely stone, By foliage tracery combined ; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's Land 'Twixt poplars straight the osier wand, In many a...was done. And changed the willow wreaths to stone !7' The beautifully fretted stone roof over the east end of the nave still remains, springing skyward... | |
 | Joseph Foulkes Winks - 1836 - 690 páginas
...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...silver light, so pale and faint, Showed many a prophet and many a saint, Whose image on the glass was dyed ; Full in the midst, his Cross of Bed Triumphant,... | |
 | 1851 - 704 páginas
...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 original beautifully fretted and sculptured stone roof of the east end of the chancel is still standing,... | |
 | John Knox - 1851 - 216 páginas
...fairy hand, 'Twixt poplars straight, the ozier wand In many a freakish note had twined ; Then framed a spell when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone." 3* Under the spot where the high altar stood is the grave of Alexander II., of Scotland. Here also... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1852 - 594 páginas
...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-...silver light, so pale and faint, Showed many a prophet, and many a saint, Whose image on the glass was dyed ; Full in the midst, his Cross of Red Triumphant... | |
 | Henry Philip Tappan - 1852 - 314 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. " It is but a fragment standing alone upon a rock, and so light, that you would almost expect it to... | |
 | Samuel Sullivan Cox - 1852 - 476 páginas
...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." Many of the Douglas family, as well as other noted persons in Scotch annals, including Alexander II.,... | |
 | 1854 - 380 páginas
...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 beautiful, and others singularly... | |
 | 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... | |
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The moon on the east oriel shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery 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,... 
