 With massive arches broad and round, That rose alternate, row and row, On ponderous columns, short and low, Built ere the art was known, By pointed aisle, and shafted stalk, The arcades of an alley'd walk To emulate in stone. On the deep walls, the heathen...  The Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register - Page 1001808Full view - About this book
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1857 - 364 pages
...huge, and dark-red pile, Placed on the margin of the isle. 10 In Saxon strength that Abbey frowned, 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 428 pages
...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 420 pages
...pile, Placed on the margin of the isle. x. In Saxon strength that Abbey frown'd, With massive archjes broad and round, That rose alternate, row and row,...and shafted stalk, The arcades of an alley'd walk And needful was such strength to these, Exposed to the tempestuous seas, Scourged by the winds' eternal... | |
 | Walter White - 1859 - 498 pages
...Saxon strength that abbey frown'd With massive arches broad and round, That rose alternate, row on row, On ponderous columns short and low, Built ere...stalk, The arcades of an alley'd walk To emulate in stone. On the deep walls, the heathen Dane Had poor'd his impious rage in vain ; HOLY ISLAND. 277 And... | |
 | James Miller (of Haddington, Scotland.) - 1859 - 352 pages
...beyond the transept, was probably the ancient chapel of Dunbar. The entry lay through a Saxon arch — On ponderous columns, short and low, Built ere the...stalk, The arcades of an alley'd walk, To emulate in stone ; while the east end of the church, including the south aisle of the transept, was a species... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1860 - 656 pages
...huge, and dark-red pile, Placed on the margin of the isle. X. I In Saxon strength that Abbey frowned, With massive arches broad and round, That rose alternate,...pointed aisle, and shafted stalk, The arcades of an ailey'd walk To emulate in stone. On the deep walls, the heathen Dane Had poured his impious rage in... | |
 | Mackenzie Edward C. Walcott - 1860 - 300 pages
...ruins of St. Cuthbert's Chapel. Like veteran, wan but unsubdued, In Saxon strength that Abbey frowned, With massive arches broad and round, That rose alternate, row and row, On ponderous columns short and low. On the deep walls the heathen Dane Had poured his impious rage in vain : Not but that portions of the... | |
 | Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott - 1861 - 452 pages
...the margin of the isle ; Like veteran, wan but unsubdued, In Saxon strength that Abbey frowned, \Vith massive arches broad and round, That rose alternate, row and row, On ponderous columns short and low. On the deep walls the heathen Dane Had poured his impious rage in vain ; And needful was such strength... | |
 | Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott - 1861 - 452 pages
...Placed by the margin of the isle; Like veteran, wan but unsubdued, In Saxon strength that Abbey frowned, With massive arches broad and round, That rose alternate, row and row, On ponderous coluums short and low. On the deep walls the heathen Dane Had poured his impious rage in vain; And... | |
 | 1863 - 774 pages
...Saxon strength that abbey frowned, With massive arches broad and round, That rose alternate, row on row, On ponderous columns, short and low, Built ere...stalk, The arcades of an alley'd walk, To emulate in stone.* The scenes of Sarrow and Ettrick vales, associated with the life and described in the poetry... | |
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