Winkles's Architectural and Picturesque Illustrations of the Cathedral Churches of England and Wales: Salisbury Cathedral. Canterbury Cathedral. York Cathedral. St. Paul's Cathedral. Wells Cathedral. Rochester Cathedral. Winchester Cathedral

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Стр. x - Last came, and last did go The pilot of the Galilean lake; Two massy keys he bore of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain) ; He shook his mitred locks, and stern bespake: 'How well could I have spared for thee, young swain, Enow of such, as for their bellies' sake Creep and intrude and climb into the fold!
Стр. 17 - St., the first archbishop of Canterbury, was originally a monk in the convent of St. Andrew, at Rome, and educated under St. Gregory...
Стр. 10 - As many days as in one year there be, So many windows in this church we see; As many marble pillars here appear As there are hours throughout the fleeting year; As many gates as moons one year does view — Strange tale to tell! yet not more strange than true.
Стр. 124 - The said college shall be constructed with the most durable materials, and in the most permanent manner, avoiding needless ornament, and attending chiefly to the strength, convenience, and neatness of the whole : It shall be at least one hundred and ten feet east and west, and one hundred and sixty feet north and south...
Стр. 70 - Paul's Day be fair and clear. It does betide a happy year; But if it chance to snow or rain, Then will be dear all kinds of grain: If clouds or mists do dark the skie, Great store of birds and beasts shall die; And if the winds do fly aloft, Then wars shall vex the kingdome oft.
Стр. 70 - ... unqualified admiration ; objections, it is true, have been raised to the columns of the peristyle, for their excess in height, over that of either of the orders below, and the objections are not groundless ; but none, says Mr. Gwilt, can lament this violation of rigid propriety. The same gentleman affirms, that for dignity and elegance no church in Europe affords an example worthy of comparison with the cupola of Paul's. The peristyle stands on an immense circular basement, rising about twenty...
Стр. 30 - Gate, the principal avenue from the city to the precincts of the Cathedral, was erected in the early part of the reign of Henry VIII., and is a singularly fine specimen of enriched Tudor architecture. The spandrils of both the large and small arches of the gatehouse are charged with the arms of Cardinal Morton, of Archbishop Warham, and...
Стр. i - The divine order and economy of the one, seemed to be emblematically set forth by the just, plain, and majestic architecture of the other. And as the one consists of a great variety of parts united in the same regular design, according to the truest art, and most exact proportion, so the other contains a decent subordination of members, various sacred institutions, sublime doctrines, and solid precepts of morality digested into the same design, and with an admirable concurrence tending to one view,...
Стр. 70 - ... wide, decorated with a niche. The piers so formed connect the wall of the inner order with the external peristyle, and thus serve as counterforts to resist the thrust of the inner brick cupola, as well as...
Стр. 64 - John's college soon after, was put in his room in March 1633. His promotion is thus noticed in a private letter: " One Stearne, a solid scholar (who first summed up the 3600 faults that were in our printed Bibles of London) is by his majesty's direction to the bishop of Ely (who elects there) made master of Jesus.

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