 The very walls are wrought into universal ornament, incrusted with tracery, and scooped into niches, crowded with the statues of saints and martyrs. Stone seems, by the cunning labor of the chisel, to have been robbed of its weight and density, suspended...  Westminster - Сторінка 28автори: Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1894 - 120 стор.Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | Washington Irving - 1822 - 424 стор.
...into niches, crowded with the statues of saints and martyrs. Stone seems, by the cunning labour of the chisel, to have been robbed of its weight and...wonderful minuteness and airy security of a cobweb. Along the sides of the chapel are the lofty stalls of the Knights of the Bath, richly carved of oak,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1820 - 438 стор.
...into niches, crowded with the statues of saints and martyrs. Stone seems, by the cunning labour of the chisel, to have been robbed of its weight and...wonderful minuteness and airy security of a cobweb. Along the sides of the chapel are the lofty stalls of the Knights of the Bath, richly carved of oak,... | |
 | Franklin James Didier - 1822 - 218 стор.
...adorned with a profusion of embroidery. Stone seems, by the cunning labour of the chisel, (says Irving,) to have been robbed of its weight and density, suspended...wonderful minuteness and airy security of a cob-web. In this chapel are the stalls of the Knights of the Bath, richly carved in oak, and their banners emblazoned... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 стор.
...into niches, crowded with the statues of saints and martyrs. Stone seems, by the cunning labour of the chisel, to have been robbed of its weight and...wonderful minuteness and airy security of a cobweb. Along the sides of the chapel are the lofty stalls of the Knights of the Bath, richly carved of oak,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1829 - 522 стор.
...into niches, crowded with the statues of saints and martyrs. Stone seems, by the cunning labour of the chisel, to have been robbed of its weight and density, suspended aloft, as if by rnagic, and the fretted roof achieved with the wonderful minuteness and airy security ef a cobweb.... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1834 - 320 стор.
...into niches, crowded with the statues of saints and martyrs. Stone seems, by the cunning labour of the chisel, to have been robbed of its weight and...aloft as if by magic, and the fretted roof achieved witli the wonderful minuteness and airy security of a cobweb. Along the sides of the chapel are the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1836 - 250 стор.
...into niches, crowded with the statues of saints and martyrs. Stone seems, by the cunning labour of the chisel, to have been robbed of its weight and...wonderful minuteness and airy security of a cobweb. Along the sides of the chapel are the lofty stalls of the Knights of the Bath, richly carved of oak,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1843 - 390 стор.
...into niches, crowded with the statues of saints and martyrs. Stone seems, by the cunning labour of the chisel, to have been robbed of its weight and...wonderful minuteness and airy security of a cobweb. Along the sides of the chapel are the lofty stalls of the Knights of the Bath, of oak , richly carved... | |
 | 1847 - 796 стор.
...crowded with the statues of saints and martyrs. Stone,' he adds, ' seems, by the cunning labour of the chisel, to have been robbed of its weight and...wonderful minuteness and airy security of a cobweb.' This is all very graphic, and very correct. It is truly a splendid chapel: and, although full of royal... | |
 | British empire - 1847 - 856 стор.
...miraculous roof ? where, in the words of Washington Irving, "stone seems, by the cunning labours of the chisel, to have been robbed of its weight and...wonderful minuteness and airy security of a cobweb." Then, again, the statues ; the innumerable statues of patriarchs, snints, martyrs, confessors, and... | |
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