Westminster AbbeyIsbister & Company Limited, 1897 - 82 pages |
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Page 72 - KING'S COLLEGE CHAPEL, CAMBRIDGE. TAX not the royal Saint with vain expense, With ill-matched aims the Architect who planned — Albeit laboring for a scanty band Of white-robed Scholars only — this immense And glorious Work of fine intelligence...
Page 72 - Of white-robed 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, Self -poised, and scooped into ten thousand cells, Where light and shade repose, where music dwells Lingering — and wandering on as loth to die ; Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality."...
Page 72 - King's College Chapel, Cambridge. " Tax not the royal Saint with vain expense, With ill-matched aims the architect who planned, Albeit labouring for a scanty band Of white-robed 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...
Page 10 - THEY dreamt not of a perishable home Who thus could build. Be mine, in hours of fear Or grovelling thought, to seek a refuge here ; < Or through the aisles of Westminster to roam : Where bubbles burst, and folly's dancing foam Melts, if it cross the threshold...
Page 43 - ... still visible. In this chapel the young monks used to be whipped privately, not like the older offenders, in the Chapter House. Bishops were frequently consecrated in its precincts. It was once a very memorable place, the scene of more than twenty provincial councils. In one of these occurred (in 1175) the dispute for precedence between Richard, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Roger, Archbishop of York, in the reign of Henry II. Finding the southern Primate seated at the right hand of the Cardinal...
Page 74 - He was born at Pembroke castle, and lieth buried at Westminster, in one of the stateliest and daintiest monuments of Europe, both for the chapel and for the sepulchre. So that he dwelleth more richly dead, in the monument of his tomb, than he did alive in Richmond, or any of his palaces.
Page 54 - a man cruel to none; courteous and charitable to all who needed his help or liberality." Burnet says, " he was a charitable and generous man, who lived in great esteem in England." And Dart concludes his account of him in these words : " though I cannot go so far as Reyner...
Page 78 - The small sarcophagus in a recess of the east wall between these two tombs contains the bones of the two poor boys, Edward V. and his brother Richard, Duke of York. They were murdered in the Tower, by order of their uncle, Richard III., in 1483, and their bones were found in 1674 in a chest under a staircase in the Tower. As there could be no doubt that these were the bones of the two royal boys, Charles II. spared an infinitesimal sum from his gross and selfish extravagances to erect this paltry...
Page 54 - a charitable and generous man that lived in great esteem in England ; " and Fuller describes him as "a man cruel to none, courteous and charitable to all who needed his help and his liberality.
Page 44 - England," and the Prelate of York, "Primate of England." The visitor should walk back into the Chapter House and see the representation of this strange scene, on the first of the painted windows. In St. Catherine's Chapel, also, occurred (in 1252) the solemn ratification of Magna Charta by Henry III., in the presence of St. Edmund of Canterbury, when the Archbishop, the Bishops, and the King himself stood with lighted candles in their .hands, and " dashed them to the ground, whilst each dignitary...