 | Christianity - 1840 - 516 pages
...were erected in haste, and the interior accommodations were mostly ill planned and inconvenient, " Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing." The bay window formed a remarkable contrast to the narrow loop holes of earlier times. Large windows... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 pages
...power of fairy hands To raise the ceiling's fretted height t, Each pannel in achievements clc'hing, Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages, that lead to nothing. * In the ]6th century, the house belonged to the Earls of Huntingdon, and to the family of Hatton.... | |
 | Periodicals - 1843 - 280 pages
...the power of fairy hands' To raise the ceiling's fretted height. Each panel in achievements clothiug, Rich windows that exclude the light. And passages that lead to nothing. Full oft within the spacious walls, When he had fifty winters o'er him, My grave Lord Keeper led the... | |
 | Alexis de Châteauneuf - Country homes - 1843 - 92 pages
...library, and boudoir, 12 and go up to bed in the best bed-room, without a guide, or a light. Here are no Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing. A o-ood deal also, I am willing to own, arises from association and national prejudices; some of our... | |
 | Samuel Dickson - 1845 - 216 pages
...describe them as the triumphs of death over their own want of skill ; or,—in the words of Gray, " Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing !" Now, what has the most patient study of these done for Physic ? has it given us one new remedy,... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Judges - 1845 - 672 pages
...little abated. Stoke Pogis. To raise the ceiling's fretted height, Each panel in achievements clothing, Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing. Full oft within the spacious walls, When he had fifty winters o'er him, My grave Lord Keeper • led... | |
 | Elizabeth Stone - England - 1845 - 484 pages
...power of fairy hands. " To raise the ceiling's fretted height, Each panel in achievements clothing, Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing. " Full oft within the spacious walls, When he had fifty winters o'er him, My grave Lord Keeper led... | |
 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1847 - 524 pages
...the power of fairy hands To raise the ceiling's fretted height, Each pannel in achievements clothing, Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing. Full oft within the spacious walls, When he had fifty winters o'er him My grave Lord Keeper led the... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1847 - 276 pages
...the pow'r of fairy hands To raise the ceiling's fretted height, Each pannel in achievements clothing, Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing. Full oft within the spacious walls, When he had fifty winters o'er him, My grave lord-keeper led the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 pages
...power of fairy hands, To raise the ceiling's fretted height, Each panel in achievements clothing ; Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing. GRAY. — War/on. piece owes more to that single pane than to all the glasses she ever consulted in... | |
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Britain's isle, no matter where, An ancient pile of building stands ; The Huntingdons and Hattons there Employ'd the power of fairy hands To raise the ceiling's fretted height, Each pannel in achievements clothing, Rich windows that exclude the light,... 
