| 1818 - 772 Seiten
...and crape sashes on horseback, the drums muffled, the fifes, bells tolling, and minute guns,—all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance...the whole abbey so illuminated, that one saw it to greater advantage than by day ; the tombs, long aisles, and fretted roof, all appearing distinctly,... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1818 - 600 Seiten
...and crape sashes on horseback, the drums muffled, the fifes, bells tolling, and minute guns,—all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance...the whole abbey so illuminated, that one saw it to greater advantage than by day; the tombs, long aisles, and fretted roof, all appearing distinctly,... | |
| 1818 - 806 Seiten
...drums nmutHed, the fifes, bells tolling, and minute guns,—all this was very solemn. But the cimama was the entrance of the abbey, where we were received by the dean and chapter in rich robes, thme choir and alnismnen bearing torches; time whole abbey so illuminated, that one saw it to greater... | |
| 1818 - 606 Seiten
...and crape sashes on horseback, the drums muflied, the- files, bells tolling, and minute guns,—all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance of the abbey, »here we were received by l!:e dean and chapter in rich robes, the choir and almsmen bearing torches;... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1820 - 526 Seiten
...sabres and crape sashes on horseback, the drums muffled, the fifes, bells tolling, and minute guns, — all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance...the whole abbey so illuminated, that one saw it to greater advantage than by day ; the tombs, long aisles, and fretted roof, all appearing distinctly,... | |
| Franklin James Didier - 1822 - 218 Seiten
..."I walked in as a rag of quality, which I found to be the easiest way of seeing the royal funeral. The charm was the entrance of the Abbey, where we...the whole Abbey so illuminated, that one saw it to greater advantage than by day; the tombs, long aisles and fretted roof, all appearing distinctly, and... | |
| New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 410 Seiten
...and crape sashes on horseback, the drums muffled, the fifes, bells tolling, and minute guns,—-all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance...the whole abbey so illuminated, that one saw it to greater advantage than by day ; the tombs, long aisles, and fretted roof all appeared distinctly and... | |
| New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 402 Seiten
...and crape sashes on horseback, the drums muffled, the fifes, bells tolling, and minute guns,—all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance...the whole abbey so illuminated, that one saw it to greater advantage than by day; the tombs, long aisles, and fretted roof all appeared distinctly and... | |
| Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1837 - 484 Seiten
...and crape sashes on horseback, the drums muffled, the fifes, bells tolling, and minute guns,—all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance...the whole abbey so illuminated, that one saw it to greater advantage than by day ; the tombs, long aisles, and fretted roof, all appearing distinctly,... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1837 - 490 Seiten
...and crape sashes on horseback, the drums muffled, the fifes, bells tolling, and minute guns,—all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance...the whole abbey so illuminated, that one saw it to greater advantage than by day ; the tombs, long aisles, and fretted roof, all appearing distinctly,... | |
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