 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 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... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 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...aisles, and fretted roof, all appearing distinctly, arni~witJrtbe : happiest chiaro scuro. There wanted nothing but incense, and little chapels here and... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1914 - 428 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... | |
 | Claude Moore Fuess - American letters - 1914 - 136 pages
...tolling, and minute guns, — all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance of the abbey, 24 where we were received by the dean and chapter in...appearing distinctly, and with the happiest chiaro scuro. There wanted nothing but incense, and little chapels here and there, with priests saying mass... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, John William Cunliffe, Ashley Horace Thorndike, Harry Morgan Ayres, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer - Literature - 1917 - 752 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...roof all appearing distinctly and with the happiest chiaroscuro. There wanted nothing but incense, and little chapels here and there, with priests saying... | |
 | Edward Albert - English literature - 1923 - 648 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 were received by the Dean and Chapter in rich copes, the choir and almsmen all bearing torches ; the whole Abbey so illuminated, that one saw it... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English prose literature - 1925 - 1124 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...Dean and Chapter in rich robes, the choir and almsmen all bearing torches ; the whole Abbey so illuminated, that one saw it to greater advantage than by... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1926 - 338 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 were received by the Dean and Chapter in rich copes, the choir and almsmen all bearing torches ; the whole Abbey so illuminated, that one saw it... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1926 - 338 pages
...the Abbey, where we were received by the Dean and Chapter in rich copes, the choir and almsmen all bearing torches; the whole Abbey so illuminated, that one saw it to greater advantage than by day j the tombs, long aisles, and fretted roof, all appearing distinctly, and with the happiest chiaroscuro.... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - England - 1870 - 788 pages
...all very well. But better was to come, for Walpole's critical eye. " The charm was the entrance to the Abbey, where we were received by the Dean and...appearing distinctly, and with the happiest chiaro oscuro When we came to the chapel of Henry the Seventh, all solemnity and decorum ceased. No order... | |
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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... 
