 | Early English newspapers - 1834 - 734 pages
...interesting; but the elucidation of it receives but little aid from the labours of the historian : " So much variety and grandeur, intelligence and taste,...of this noble fabric were respectively erected."— p. 29. This deficiency, however, is of little importance ; the fabric has outlived its history : but... | |
 | English essays - 1834 - 772 pages
...interesting; but the elucidation of it receives but little aid from the labours of the historian : " So much variety and grandeur, intelligence and taste,...of this noble fabric were respectively erected."— p. 29. This deficiency, however, is of little importance ; the fabric has outlived its history : but... | |
 | Periodicals - 1841 - 272 pages
...projecting eastward; a choir and its aisles; a Lady-chapel; a western tower, and a capacious north porch. Much variety and grandeur, intelligence and taste, are displayed in its architecture; the Norman part being the undoubted work of Bishop Flambard (who lived in the time of William Rufus,)... | |
 | Thomas Johnstone Aitkin - 1842 - 170 pages
...projecting eastward; a choir and its aisles; a lady chapel; a western tower, and a capacious north porch. So much variety and grandeur, intelligence and taste,...erected. With the exception, indeed, of the Norman part,—the undoubted work of bishop Flambard, and his early successors in this deanery,—we are unacquainted... | |
 | 1850 - 72 pages
...choir and its aisles; a lady chapel; a western tower, and a capacious north porch. So much varietv and grandeur, intelligence and taste, are displayed...at what exact periods, the different divisions of the noble fabric were respectively erected. With the exception, indeed, of the Norman part,—the undoubted... | |
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So much variety and grandeur, intelligence and taste, are displayed in its architecture, that we cannot but regret the deficiency of records which prevents our ascertaining by whom, and at what exact periods, the different divisions of this noble fabric... 