 | Charles Knight - England - 1851 - 492 pages
...who fashioned for the sense These lofty pillars, spread that branching roof, Self' poised and scooped into ten thousand cells, Where light and shade repose,...wandering on as loth to die ; Like thoughts whose very swcetness yiekleth proof That they were born for immortality." But before we return to the quadrangle,... | |
 | Charles Knight - England - 1851 - 492 pages
...who fashioned for the sense. These lofty pillars, spread that branehing roof, Selfspoised and seooped into ten thousand cells, Where light and shade repose,...dwells, Lingering — and wandering on as loth to dle ; Like thoughts whose very swectness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality." But before... | |
 | William Corbett Burder - 1851 - 46 pages
...cell, (now a coal-hole ! ) which was formerly the confessional. The ceiling, " Self-poised and scoop'd into ten thousand cells, Where light and shade repose, where music dwells," is a fine example of decorated groining : the bosses, at the intersections of the ribs, (each different)... | |
 | John Wilson - 1854 - 314 pages
...!" And what heart partakes not the awe of his " Beneath that branching roof Self-poised, and scoop'd into ten thousand cells Where light and shade repose,...dwells Lingering— and wandering on as loth to die "?" Read the first of these sonnets with the last — and then once more the strains that come between... | |
 | John Wilson - 1854 - 342 pages
...what heart partakes not the awe of his •• Beneath that branching roof Self-poised, and scoon'd into ten thousand cells Where light and shade repose,...where music dwells Lingering — and wandering on ae loth to die ?" Read the first of these sonnets with the last—- and then once more the strains... | |
 | Charles Neve - 1855 - 74 pages
...who fashion'd for the sense These lofty pillars, spread that branching roof Self-poised, and scooped into ten thousand cells Where light and shade repose,...as loth to die ; Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality. ********* What awful perspective ! while from our... | |
 | William John Conybeare - Christianity - 1855 - 498 pages
...lofty pillars, spread that branching roof, Self-poised, and scooped into ten thousand cells AVhere light and shade repose, where music dwells Lingering, and wandering on as loth to die."* It would be a low and miserable utilitarianism which should cut down such temples to fit the numerical... | |
 | Pishey Thompson - Boston (England) - 1856 - 886 pages
...moulded arches, proportionate in height and span, and groined roofs winding in endless ramifications? " Where light and shade repose, where music dwells,...as loth to die ; Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality." The nave is separated from the aisles by seven... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 460 pages
..." And what heart partakes not the awe of his " Beneath that branching roof Self-poised and scoop'd into ten thousand cells Where light and shade repose,...dwells Lingering — and wandering on as loth to die" 1 Read the first of these sonnets with the last — and then once more the strains that come between... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 456 pages
..." And what heart partakes not the awe of his " Beneath that branching roof Self-poised and scoop'd into ten thousand cells Where light and shade repose,...dwells Lingering — and wandering on as loth to die" 1 Bead the first of these sonnets with the last — and then once more the strains that come between... | |
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Scholars only — this immense And glorious Work of fine intelligence! Give all thou canst ; high Heaven rejects the lore Of nicely-calculated less or more ; So deemed the man who fashioned for the sense These lofty pillars, spread that branching roof... 
