Wood Carvings in English Churches ...H. Frowde, 1910 |
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Seite 84 - There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and chained together the various productions of the elements with a free disorder natural to each species.
Seite 94 - And whereas upon the holydays, during his High Chancellorship, one of his gentlemen, when service at the church was done, ordinarily used to come to my lady his wife's pew-door, and say unto her,
Seite 20 - Our life lies eastward : every day Some little of that mystic way By trembling feet is trod : In thoughtful fast, and quiet feast, Our thoughts go travelling to the East To our incarnate God. Fresh from the Font, our childhood's prime, To life's most oriental time, — "Still doth it eastward turn in prayer, And rear its saving altar there ; Still doth it eastward turn in creed, While faith in awe each gracious deed Of her dear Saviour's love doth plead ; Still doth it turn at every line • To the...
Seite 94 - Madam, my lord is gone." But she thinking this at first to be but one of his jests, was little moved, till he told her sadly, he had given up the great seal ; whereupon...
Seite 84 - In good earnest the very frame was worth the money, there being nothing in nature so tender and delicate as the flowers and festoons about it, and yet the work was very strong; in the piece were more than 100 figures of men, &c.
Seite 53 - England : they are executed in the most perfect manner, not only as regards variety and beauty of ornamental design, but in accuracy of workmanship, which is frequently deficient in ancient examples of woodwork.
Seite 120 - Cloister-garth, all finely glazed ; and in every window, three pews or Carrels, where every one of the old Monks had his Carrel several by himself, to which, after having dined, they did resort, and there study their books, every one in his Carrel, all the afternoon, till even-song time ; and this was their exercise every day.
Seite 120 - Durham record affords us a glimpse or what after the church is the centre of the cloistered life — the cloister itself. " In the north side of the cloister, from the corner over against the church door to the corner over against the dormitory door, was all finely glazed from the top to the sill within a little of the ground into the cloister garth. And in every window three pews or...
Seite 28 - It is an ancient usage of the church of Lincoln to say one mass, and the whole psalter daily, on behalf of the living and deceased benefactors of the church.
Seite 119 - Attached to it were lands held by an ancient " custom," by which a Flitch of Bacon could be claimed by any married couple who had "not repented them, sleeping or waking, of their marriage in a year and a day.