 | 1901 - 488 pàgines
...ideas of order, of quiet, of sober, well-established principles, of hoary usage and reverend custom. Everything seems to be the growth of ages of regular...architecture, with its low, massive portal, its Gothic Appendix. tower, its windows rich with tracery and painted glass, in scrupulous section ru. preservation,... | |
 | Peter Hampson Ditchfield - 1905 - 364 pàgines
...appearance of an English village left on his mind is beautifully described in the following passage : — "The old church of remote architecture with its low,...tower, its windows rich with tracery and painted glass, its scrupulous preservation, its stately monuments of warriors and worthies of olden times, ancestors... | |
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1905 - 330 pàgines
...ideas of order, of quiet, of sober well-established principles, of hoary usage and reverend custom. Everything seems to be the growth of ages, of regular...tower; its windows rich with tracery and painted glass; its stately monuments of warriors and worthies of the olden time, ancestors of the present lords of... | |
 | Paul Blouët - 1906 - 216 pàgines
...ideas of order, of quiet, of sober, well-established principles, of hoary usage and reverend custom. Everything seems to be the growth of ages of regular and peaceful existence.— WASHINGTON IRVING. 1 Here and there =fa et la. 2 See Ex. XXX. Notes 1 and 2, Part II. 3 With age=par... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1907 - 328 pàgines
...ideas of order, of quiet, of sober, wellestablished principles, of hoary usage and reverend custom. 25 Everything seems to be the growth of ages of regular...portal ; its Gothic tower ; its windows rich with tracery1 and painted glass, in scrupulous preservation ; its stately monuments of warriors and 1 Open... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1911 - 470 pàgines
...ideas of order, of quiet, of sober wellestablished principles, of hoary usage and reverend custom. Everything seems to be the growth of ages of regular and peaceful existence. The old church of remote 25 architecture, with its low massive portal, its Gothic tower, its windows rich with tracery and painted... | |
 | Percy Holmes Boynton - 1919 - 528 pàgines
...ideas of order, of quiet, of sober, well-established principles, of hoary usage and reverend custom. Everything seems to be the growth of ages of regular and peaceful existence." As Irving observed it, it was still the " Merrie England " of song and story, an England, therefore,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1922 - 398 pàgines
...ideas of order, of quiet, of sober, wellestablished principles, of hoary usage and reverend custom. Everything seems to be the growth of ages of regular...tower, its windows rich with tracery and painted glass, hi scrupulous preservation, its stately monuments of warriors and worthies of the olden time, ancestors... | |
 | Sir William Alexander Craigie - 1924 - 156 pàgines
...ide,as of order, of qui,et, of sober well-esta-blished principles, of hoary usage and reverend custom. Everything seems to be the growth of ages, of regular...tower, its windows rich with tracery and painted glass, its stately monuments of warriori and worthies of the olden time, ancestors of the present lords of... | |
 | Harold Begbie - 1924 - 200 pàgines
...ideas of order; of quiet, of sober, well-established principles, of hoary usage and reverend custom. Everything seems to be the growth of ages of regular and peaceful existence. — WASHINGTON IRVING. The wealth of England is not merely material wealth — it does not merely consist... | |
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The great charm, however, of English scenery is the moral feeling that seems to pervade it. It is associated in the mind with ideas of order, of quiet, of sober, well-established principles, of hoary usage and reverend custom. Every thing seems to be... 
