 | Marcius Willson - Bible stories - 1863 - 552 pages
...loved to roam, A lingering votary, 'neath vaulted dome, "Where the tall shafts, that mount in niaesy pride, Their mingling branches shoot from side to side; Where elfin' sculptors, with fantastic clew,2 O'er the long roof then* wild embroidery drew ; Where superstition, with capricious hand, In... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1883 - 596 pages
...manners- Gothic arts explore, And muse on the magnificence of yore. But chief, enraptured have I loved to roam, A lingering votary, the vaulted dome, Where...clew, O'er the long roof their wild embroidery drew ;l Where Superstition with capricious hand In many a maze the wreathed window plann'd, With hues romantic... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - English literature - 1898 - 478 pages
...manners, Gothic arts explore. And muse on the magnificence of yore. But chief, enraptured have I loved to roam, A lingering votary, the vaulted dome. Where...capricious hand, In many a maze, the wreathed window planned, With hues romantic tinged the gorgeous pane, To fill with holy light the wondrous fane."*... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - English literature - 1898 - 496 pages
...yore. But chief, enraptured have I loved to roam, A lingering votary, the vaulted dome, Where the till shafts, that mount in massy pride, Their mingling...capricious hand, In many a maze, the wreathed window planned, With hues romantic tinged the gorgeous pane. To fill with holy light the wondrous fane."*... | |
 | Henry Heathcote Statham - Architecture - 1898 - 166 pages
...manners Gothic arts explore, And muse on the magnificence of yore. But chief enraptured have I loved to roam, A lingering votary, the vaulted dome, Where...side to side ; Where elfin sculptors with fantastic clue O'er the long roof their wild embroidery drew ; When superstition, with capricious hand, In many... | |
 | Banister Fletcher, Sir Banister Fletcher - Architecture - 1901 - 856 pages
...characteristic of English work (No. 98). The interior of a Gothic cathedral has been thus described : " Tlie tall shafts that mount in massy pride. Their mingling...side to side ; Where elfin sculptors with fantastic clue O'er the long roof their wild embroidery drew ; When superstition, with capricious hand, In many... | |
 | Carlos de Mesquita - English literature - 1911 - 284 pages
...manners Gothic arts explore, And muse on thc magnificence of yore. But chief, enraptured nave I loved to roam, A lingering votary, the vaulted dome, . Where...shafts, that mount in massy pride, Their mingling hranches shoot from side to side; Where elfin sulptors, with fantastic clew, O'er the long roof their... | |
 | Richard Henry Spencer - 1914 - 250 pages
...Clares, the Despensers, the de Beauchamps and other benefactors of the Abbey, "Enraptured have I loved to roam, A lingering votary, the vaulted dome, Where...the wreathed window plann•d, With hues romantic tinged the gorgeous pane, To fill with holy light the wondrous fane." No sketch of the life of Isabel... | |
 | Reinhard Haferkorn - Architecture, Gothic - 1924 - 230 pages
...manners Gothic arts cxplore, And muse on the magnificence of yore. But chief enraptured have l loved to roam, A lingering votary, the vaulted dome, Where...shoot from side to side; Where elfin sculptors, with fantaslic clew, O'er the long roof their wild embroidery drew ; Where Superstition with capricious... | |
 | Sir Banister Fletcher - Architecture - 1924 - 973 pages
...the most ornate part of the church. The interior of a Gothic cathedral has been thus described : •* The tall shafts that mount in massy pride, Their mingling...side to side ; Where elfin sculptors with fantastic clue O'er the long roof their wild embroidery drew ; When superstition, with capricious hand, In many... | |
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I loved to roam, A lingering votary, the vaulted dome, Where the tall shafts, that mount in massy pride, Their mingling branches shoot from side to side ; Where elfin sculptors, with fantastic clew, O'er the long roof their wild embroidery drew ; Where... 
