...frowned, With massive arehes broad aud round, That rose alternate, row and row, On ponderous eolumns, short and low, Built ere the art was known, By pointed aisle, and shafted stalk, The areades of an alleyed walk To emulate in stone. On the deep walls, the heathen Dane Had poured his...

...many instances of the extreme accuracy of Sir Walter's details. In Saxon strength the abbey frowned, With massive arches broad and round, That rose alternate,...pointed aisle and shafted stalk, The arcades of an alleyed walk To emulate in stone. On the deep walls, the heathen Dane Had poured his impious rage in...

...huge, and dark-red pile, Placed on the margin of the isle. X. In Saxon strength that Abbey frown'd, With massive arches broad and round, That rose alternate,...stalk, The arcades of an alley'd walk To emulate in stone. On the deep walls, the heathen Dane Had pour'd his impious rage in vain ; And needful was such...

...every lover of native art as precious reliques of antiquity. " In Saxon strength that abbey frown'd, With massive arches, broad and round, That rose alternate,...row and row, On ponderous columns, short and low." Near the centre of the pavement is a remarkable echo, limited to one particular position, and quite...

...there is nothing of the former age in either building : — " In Saxon strength that abbey frowned,1 With massive arches broad and round That rose alternate...row and row, On ponderous columns short and low." The plan of this vast nave is singular ; it is divided into five principal compartments by four enormous...

...Placed on the margin of the isle. x. In Saxon strength that Ahhey frowned, With massive arches hroad and round, That rose alternate, row and row On ponderous...stalk, The arcades of an alley'd walk To emulate in stone. On the deep walls, the heathen Dane Had poured his impious rage in vain ; And needful was such...

...description of the abbey churches both of Lindisfarne and Melrose ; of the former he says, " Built long ere the art was known, By pointed aisle and shafted stalk, The arcades of an alleyed walk, To emulate in stone." Of the latter, in speaking particularly of the east window of the...

...peculiarly ornamented mouldings, and numerous concentric rings; — " Built ere the art was bnown, By pointed aisle and shafted stalk The arcades of an alley'd walk To emulate in stone. " Then, the semi-Norman, a transition style, to be found in the church and arches of the transepts...

...art as precious reliques of antiquity. " In Saxon strength that abbey frown'd. With massive arehes, broad and round. That rose alternate, row and row, On ponderous columns, short and low." or clapping of the hands, is reverberated with a noise like the discharge of cannon, or the roll of...

...of which, serves strongly to remind us of the time when— " In Saxon strength proud Abbeys frown'd With massive arches, broad and round, That rose alternate, row and row, On ponderons columns, short and low." MANSIONS INHABITED BY THE BISHOP AND PREBENDARIES OF THE DIOCESE....