 With massive arches broad and round, That rose alternate, row and row, On ponderous columns, short and low, Built ere the art was known, By pointed aisle, and shafted stalk, The arcades of an alley'd walk To emulate in stone. On the deep walls, the heathen...  The Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register - Page 1001808Full view - About this book
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1876 - 288 pages
...solemn, huge, and dark red pile, Placed on the margin of the isle. In Saxon strength that abbey frowned, With massive arches broad and round, That rose alternate,...pointed aisle and shafted stalk, The arcades of an alleyed walk To emulate in stone. On the deep walls the heathen Dane Had poured his impious rage in... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 828 pages
...solemn, rude, and dark-red pile, Placed on the margin of the isle. In Saxon strength that abbey frown'd, t war of wave and rock. Suspended cliffs, with hideous...In such the wild cat leaves her young: Yet Douglas nf an alley'd walk To emulate in stone. On the deep walls the heathen Dane Had pour'd his impious rage... | |
 | William Bellars - 1876 - 410 pages
...solemn, huge, and dark-red pile Placed on the margin of the isle. " In Saxon strength that Abbey frmvnrd, With massive arches broad and round, That rose alternate,...row and row, On ponderous columns, short and low." * But this is not enough. Scott goes on to tell of the injuries received by the Abbey from the hand... | |
 | William Bellars - 1876 - 408 pages
...solemn, huge, and dark-red pile Placed on the margin of the isle. " In Saxon strength that AWney frowned, With massive arches broad and round, That rose alternate,...row and row, On ponderous columns, short and low." * But this is not enough. Scott goes on to tell of the injuries received by the Abbey from the hand... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1877 - 688 pages
...solemn, huge, and dark-red pile, Placed on the margin of the isle. In Saxon strength that Abbey frowned, With massive arches broad and round, That rose alternate,...pointed aisle, and shafted stalk, The arcades of an alleyed walk To emulate in stone. On the deep walls, the heathen Dane Had poured his impious rage in... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1877 - 742 pages
...huge, and dark-red pile, Placed on the margin of the isle. x. In Saxon strength that Abbey frowned, With massive arches broad and round, That rose alternate,...short and low. Built ere the art was known, By pointed aMe, and shafted stalk, The arcades of an alloyed walk To emulate in stone. On the deep walls, the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1876 - 288 pages
...solemn, huge, and dark red pile, Placed on the margin of the isle. In Saxon strength that abbey frowned, With massive arches broad and round, That rose alternate,...pointed aisle and shafted stalk, The arcades of an alleyed walk To emulate in stone. On the deep walls the heathen Dane Had poured his impious rage in... | |
 | Jabez Marrat - 1879 - 250 pages
...manuscript dated so early as 1176. It was in the form of a cross, and was entered by a Saxon arch, — ' On ponderous columns, short and low, Built ere the...pointed aisle and shafted stalk, The arcades of an alleyed walk To emulate in stone.' The venerable pile in -which so many generations had worshipped... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1880 - 326 pages
...huge, and dark-red pile, Placed on the margin of the isle. x. In SaXon strength that abbey frowned, With massive arches broad and round, That rose alternate,...pointed aisle, and shafted stalk, The arcades of an alleyed walk To emulate in stone. On the deep walls the heathen Dane Had poured his impious rage in... | |
 | James Frothingham Hunnewell - 1880 - 538 pages
...Castle with its battled walls. The ancient Monastery's halls." 14 In Saxon strength that Abbey frown*^ With massive arches broad and round, That rose alternate,...pointed aisle, and shafted stalk, The arcades of an altey'd walk To emulate in stone. On the deep walls the heathen Dane Had pour'd his impious rage in... | |
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