 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...  Westminster Abbey - Page 72by Frederic William Farrar - 1897 - 82 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English literature - 1822 - 696 pages
...1822. " Ta* not the royal Saint with vain expense, With ill.match'd aims the architect who plann'd, . . Albeit labouring for a scanty band Of white-robed...of fine intelligence! Give all thou can'st : high Heav'n rejects the lore Of nicely.calculated less or more ; So deemed the man who fashioned for the... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Fore-edge painting - 1828 - 372 pages
...CAMBRIDGE. TAX not the royal Saint with vain expense. With ill-matched aims the Architect who pl.iun. J Albeit labouring for a scanty band Of white-robed...Work of fine Intelligence! Give all thou canst; high IIea%'cn rejects the tare Of nicely-calculated less or more; So deemed the Man who fashioned for the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...architect who planned, Albeit labouring for a scanty band Of white-robed scholars only, this immenee each one blazing diamond. Such was the chariot of the king of kings. [Tlit Bower of Ac/tiu/ti nicely calculated less or more ; So deemed the luun who fashioned for the sense These lofty pillars,... | |
 | Churchman - 1844 - 396 pages
...that GOD who is the FATHER of them both. — Jones of Nay land. — Letter to a Young Gentleman. " Give all thou canst : high Heaven rejects the lore Of nicely.calculated less or more." • Worckicorth. EVEN with respect to heavenly things, let discretion be our guide — let us not soar... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...yieldeth proof. That they were bora for immortality." 5 Royal saint.— Henry VI. See note 4, p. 123. Albeit labouring for a scanty band Of white-robed...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,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...With ill-matched aims the Architeet 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 rejeets the lore Of nicely-calculated less or more ; So deemed the man who fashioned for the sense... | |
 | George Ornsby - Durham (Durham) - 1846 - 248 pages
...and plate to the chapels of those two castles are stated in his will to have cost more than £1000. " Give all thou canst ; high Heaven rejects the lore Of nicely-calculated less or more." Next to the Altar screen, the most prominent object of attention, is the Bishop's throne, on the south... | |
 | British empire - 1847 - 812 pages
...Ш-match'd aims the Architect who planned— Albeit labouring tot a »canty band Of white-rob'd scholar» only — this immense And glorious work of fine intelligence ! Give all thou canst ; high Heaven reject« the lure ОГ nicely-calculated less or more ; So deemed the man who fashioned for the sense... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...own sweet wilj : Dear Uod ! the very houses eeem asleep ; Aud all that mighty heart is lying still 1 . nicely calculated less or more ; So deemed the man who fashioned for the sense These lofty pillars,... | |
 | Charles Knight - England - 1851 - 492 pages
...With ill-match'd aims the Architect who planned — Albeit labouring for a seanty band Of white-rob'd scholars only — this immense And glorious work of fine intelligence ! Give all thou eanst ; high Heaven rejects the lore Of nicely-ealeulated less or more. So deemed the man who fashioned... | |
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