| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 400 pages
...dies away, While the eternal ages watch and wait. How strange the sculptures that adorn these towers I This crowd of statues, in whose folded sleeves Birds build their nests ; while canopied with leaves And the vast minster seems a cross of flowers I But fiends and dragons on the gargoyled eaves Watch... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 660 pages
...of the time disconsolate To inarticulate murmurs dies away, While the eternal ages watch and wait. How strange the sculptures that adorn these towers!...vast minster seems a cross of flowers ! But fiends aud dragons on the gargoylod eaves Watch the dead Christ between the living thieves, And, underneath,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 450 pages
...these towers I This crowd of statues, in whose folded sleeves Birds build theirnests ; whilecanopied with leaves Parvis and portal bloom like trellised...bowers, And the vast minster seems a cross of flowers I But fiends and dragons on the gargoyled eaves Watch the dead Christ between the living thieves, And,... | |
| James Grant - 1879 - 606 pages
...one of the lines of Dante in the "Inferno:"— " How strange the sculpture that adorns these towers I This crowd of statues, in whose folded sleeves Birds...canopied with leaves Parvis and portal bloom like trellis'd bowers, And the vast minster seems a cross of flowers. " And amid its marvellous carvings,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1879 - 562 pages
...of the time disconsolate To inarticulate murmurs dies away, While the eternal ages watch and wait. How strange the sculptures that adorn these towers ! This crowd of statues, in whose /olded sleeves Birds build their nests ; whileeanopied with leaves Parvis and portal bloom like trelliscd... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1880 - 328 pages
...the time disconsolate To inarticulate murmurs dies away, While the eternal ages watch and wait. n. How strange the sculptures that adorn these towers!...Birds build their nests ; while, canopied with leaves, Parvisand portal bloom like trellised bowers; And the vast minster seems a cross of flowers 1 But fiends... | |
| Mrs. B. M. Buckhout - 1882 - 288 pages
...Pliny family. XXIII. THE CATHEDRAL OF MILAN. " How strange the sculptures that adorn these towers 1 This crowd of statues, in whose folded sleeves Birds...And the vast minster seems a cross of flowers. But thieves and dragons on the gargoyled eaves Watch the dead Christ between the living thieves, And, underneath,... | |
| Mrs. B. M. Buckhout - 1882 - 280 pages
...Pliny family. XXIII. THE CATHEDRAL OF MILAN. " How strange the sculptures that adorn these towers I This crowd of statues, in whose folded sleeves Birds...trellised bowers, And the vast minster seems a cross of flgwers. But thieves and dragons on the gargoyled eaves Watch the dead Christ between the living thieves,... | |
| 1883 - 528 pages
...lord only of a wilderness. The History of the Norman Conquest of England (1867-1876). YORK MINSTEK. How strange the sculptures that adorn these towers...a cross of flowers ! But fiends and dragons on the gargoyledt eaves Watch the dead Christ between the living thieves, And, underneath, the traitor Judas... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 550 pages
...the time disconsolate To inarticulate murmurs dies away, While the eternal ages watch and waiL trange the sculptures that adorn these towers ! This crowd...with leaves Parvis and portal bloom like trellised howers, And the vast minster seems a cross of flowers I But fiends and dragons on the gar. goyled eaves... | |
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