 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1842 - 580 pages
...horseback, the drums muffled, the fifes, bells tolling, and minute guns,—all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance of the abbey, where we...appearing distinctly, and with the happiest chiaro scuro. There wanted nothing but incense, and little chapels here and there, with priests saying mass... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1842 - 574 pages
...horseback, the drums muffled, the fifes, bells tolling, and minute guns,—all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance of the abbey, where we...appearing distinctly, and with the happiest chiaro scuro. There wanted nothing but incense, and little chapels here and there, with priests saying mass... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1842 - 580 pages
...horseback, the drums muffled, the fifes, bells tolling, and minute guns, — all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance of the abbey, where we...appearing distinctly, and with the happiest chiaro scwro. There wanted nothing but incense, and little chapels here and there, with priests saying mass... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1843 - 492 pages
...dean and chapter in rich robes; the choir and alms-men bearing torches; the whole Abbey so illumined that one saw it to greater advantage than by day;...roof, all appearing distinctly ; and with the happiest chiaro-oscuro, there wanted nothing but incense, and little chapels here and there, with priests saying... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1844 - 628 pages
...the " drums muffled, the fifes, bells tolling, and minute " guns, — all this was very solemn; but the charm " was the entrance of the Abbey, where we...bearing torches ; the " whole Abbey so illuminated that we saw it to " greater advantage than by day, — the tombs, long " aisles, and fretted roof, all appearing... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1844 - 608 pages
...the " drums muffled, the fifes, bells tolling, and minute " guns, — all this was very solemn ; but the charm " was the entrance of the Abbey, where we...bearing torches ; the " whole Abbey so illuminated that we saw it to " greater advantage than by day, — the tombs, long " aisles, and fretted roof, all appearing... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1846 - 494 pages
...dean and chapter in rich robes ; the choir and alms-men bearing torches ; the whole Abbey so illumined that one saw it to greater advantage than by day ; the tombs, Ipng aisles, and fretted roof, all appearing distinctly ; and with the happiest chiaro-oscuro, there... | |
 | George Harris - Great Britain - 1847 - 620 pages
...horseback ; the drums muffled, the fifes, bells tolling, and minute guns — all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance of the Abbey, where we...appearing distinctly, and with the happiest chiaro scuro When we came to the chapel of Henry the Seventh, all solemnity and decorum ceased ; no order... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1893 - 688 pages
...1760, which he attended as a " rag of quality," as he calls himself:— " The charm was the entrance to the Abbey, where we were received by the Dean and Chapter in rich robes, the choir and almoners bearing torches ; the whole Abbey so illuminated that one saw it to greater advantage than... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1853 - 446 pages
...the drums muffled, the fifes, bells tolling, " and minute guns, — all this was very solemn ; but the " charm was the entrance of the Abbey, where we...choir and almsmen bearing torches ; the whole Abbey " being so illuminated that we saw it to greater advan" tage than by day, — the tombs, long aisles,... | |
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... minute guns, — all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance of the Abbey, where we were received by the Dean and Chapter in rich robes, the choir and almsmen bearing torches; the whole Abbey so illuminated, that one saw it to greater... 
