...survivals of primitive folk-faith, in that astonishing structure of Christian theology where, — " Fiends and dragons on the gargoyled eaves Watch the dead Christ between the living thieves." /. As substitutes for the Christian doctrine of the Resurrection, there have been offered...

...poetical workmanship under such limitations, I may be permitted to quote his second stanza : — " How strange the sculptures that adorn these towers ! This crowd of statues, in whose folded sleeve» Birds build their nests ; while canopied with leaves Parvis and portal bloom like trellised...

...survivals of primitive folk-faith, in that astonishing structure of Christian theology where, — " Fiends and dragons on the gargoyled eaves Watch the dead Christ between the living thieves." f. As substitutes for the Christian doctrine of the Resurrection, there have been offered...

...the time disconsolate To inarticulate murmurs dies away, While the eternal ages watch and wait. 1t But fiends and dragons on the gargoyled eaves Watch the dead Christ between the living thieves. And underneath the traitor Judas lowers! Ah! from what agonies of heart and brain, What exultations...

...time disconsolate To inarticulate murmurs dies away, While the eternal ages watch and wait. 11 How strange the sculptures that adorn these towers! This...bowers, And the vast minster seems a cross of flowers! 9187 But fiends and dragons on the gargoyled eaves Watch the dead Christ between the living thieves,...

...of the more prominent instances is his comparison of Dante's great poem to a cathedral : — " How strange the sculptures that adorn these towers ! This...canopied with leaves Parvis and portal bloom like trelliss'd bowers, And the vast minster seems a cross of flowers ! But fiends and dragons on the gargoyled...

...time disconsolate To inarticulate murmurs dies away, While the eternal ages watch and wait. n. How strange the sculptures that adorn these towers! This...gargoyled eaves Watch the dead Christ between the living thieves, And, underneath, the traitor Judas lowers ! Ah ! from what agonies of heart and brain, What...

...the time disconsolate To inarticulate murmurs dies away, While the eternal ages watch and wait. n How strange the sculptures that adorn these towers! This...gargoyled eaves Watch the dead Christ between the living thieves, And underneath the traitor Judas lowers! Ah! from what agonies of heart and brain, What exultations...

...disconsolate To inarticulate murmurs dies away, "While the eternal ages watch and wait. to pray, How strange the sculptures that adorn these towers! This...canopied with leaves Parvis and portal bloom like trel Used bowers, And the vast minster seems a cross of flowers! But fiends and dragons on the gargoyled...

...leaves Parvis and portal bloom like trellised bowers. And the vast minster seems a cross of flowers! Bat fiends and dragons on the gargoyled eaves Watch the dead Christ between the living thieves, And underneath the traitor Judas lowers! Ah! from what agonies of heart and brain, What exultations...