 | 1856 - 390 стор.
...had so laboriously built for themselves, mimkind were to remain no longer. And now it is lui gone; and between us and the old English there lies a gulf of mystery. They cannot come to us, and our imagination can but feebly penetruto to them. Only among the aisles... | |
 | National reading books - 1871 - 224 стор.
...Kensington Museum have seen copies of some of their glorious works. Thus the Middle Ages passed away, " and between us and the old English there lies a gulf of mystery. They B 2 cannot come to us, and our imagination can but feebly reach to them. Only among the aisles... | |
 | George Hart - 1881 - 536 стор.
...sound of sweet music, is almost a profitless task, since "All — to use the words of Mr. Froude — is gone, like an unsubstantial pageant faded ; and between...prose of the historian will never adequately bridge." To render an account of the Viol in England, at all approaching completeness, is not possible : its... | |
 | J. Gordon Mowat, John Alexander Cooper, Newton MacTavish - 1893 - 722 стор.
...was. As Froude, in one of his most eloquent and poetic passages, has said of mediaeval England : " And now it is all gone — like ' an unsubstantial pageant faded ' — and between us and those old days and times ' there lies a gulf of mystery which the prose of the historian will never... | |
 | William John Francis Keatley Stride - 1900 - 306 стор.
...secondly, because, between us and those times, as one of the most eloquent of Exeter men has written, " there lies a gulf of mystery which the prose of the historian will never adequately bridge."* The conditions and ideals of Oxford life have changed so completely that, till some new Carlyle arises... | |
 | William John Francis Keatley Stride - 1900 - 306 стор.
...secondly, because, between us and those times, as one of the most eloquent of Exeter men has written, " there lies a gulf of mystery which the prose of the historian will never adequately bridge."* The conditions and ideals of Oxford life have changed so completely that, till some new Carlyle arises... | |
 | Herbert Woodfield Paul - 1905 - 482 стор.
...foundations, was seen to be but a small atom in the awful vastness of the universe. In the fabric of habit which they had so laboriously built for themselves,...pageant faded; and between us and the old English themselves a gulf of mystery which the prose of the historian will never adequately bridge. They cannot... | |
 | Herbert Woodfield Paul - 1906 - 480 стор.
...is all gone — like an unsubstantial pageant faded ; and between us and the old English themselves a gulf of mystery which the prose of the historian...cannot come to us, and our imagination can but feebly pene- , trate to them. Only among the aisles of the -S cathedrals, only before the silent figures sleeping... | |
 | Algernon Cecil - 1909 - 328 стор.
...unfixed from its foundations, was seen to be but a small atom in the awful vastness of the universe. In the fabric of habit, in which they had so laboriously...adequately bridge. They cannot come to us, and our L imagination can but feebly penetrate to them. Only among the aisles of the cathedral, only as we... | |
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And now it is all gone — like an unsubstantial pageant faded ; and between us and the old English there lies a gulf of mystery which the prose of the historian will never adequately bridge. 
