 | Washington Irving - 1820 - 438 pages
...ornament, encrusted with tracery, and scooped into niches, crowded with the statues of saints and martyrs. Stone seems, by the cunning labour of the chisel,...wonderful minuteness and airy security of a cobweb. Along the sides of the chapel are the lofty stalls of the Knights of the Bath, richly carved of oak,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1822 - 424 pages
...ornament, encrusted with tracery, and scooped into niches, crowded with the statues of saints and martyrs. Stone seems, by the cunning labour of the chisel,...wonderful minuteness and airy security of a cobweb. Along the sides of the chapel are the lofty stalls of the Knights of the Bath, richly carved of oak,... | |
 | Franklin James Didier - 1822 - 218 pages
...adorned with a profusion of embroidery. Stone seems, by the cunning labour of the chisel, (says Irving,) to have been robbed of its weight and density, suspended...wonderful minuteness and airy security of a cob-web. In this chapel are the stalls of the Knights of the Bath, richly carved in oak, and their banners emblazoned... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...ornament, encrusted with tracery, and scooped into niches, crowded with the statues of saints and martyrs. Stone seems, by the cunning labour of the chisel,...wonderful minuteness and airy security of a cobweb. Along the sides of the chapel are the lofty stalls of the Knights of the Bath, richly carved of oak,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1829 - 522 pages
...ornament, encrusted with tracery, and scooped into niches, crowded with the statues of saints and martyrs. Stone seems, by the cunning labour of the chisel,...its weight and density, suspended aloft, as if by rnagic, and the fretted roof achieved with the wonderful minuteness and airy security ef a cobweb.... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1834 - 320 pages
...ornament, encrusted with tracery, and scooped into niches, crowded with the statues of saints and martyrs. Stone seems, by the cunning labour of the chisel,...aloft as if by magic, and the fretted roof achieved witli the wonderful minuteness and airy security of a cobweb. Along the sides of the chapel are the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 196 pages
...tracery, and scooped into niches, crswded with the statues of saints and martyrs. Stone seems, Iir the cunning labour of the chisel to have been robbed...wonderful minuteness and airy security of a cobweb. Along the sides of the chapel are the lofty stalls of the Knights of the Bath, richly carved of oak,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1836 - 250 pages
...ornament, encrusted with tracery, and scooped into niches, crowded with the statues of saints and martyrs. Stone seems, by the cunning labour of the chisel,...wonderful minuteness and airy security of a cobweb. Along the sides of the chapel are the lofty stalls of the Knights of the Bath, richly carved of oak,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1843 - 400 pages
...ornament, encrusted with tracery, and scooped into niches, crowded with the statues of saints and martyrs. Stone seems, by the cunning labour of the chisel,...wonderful minuteness and airy security of a cobweb. Along the sides of the chapel are the lofty stalls of the Knights of the Bath, of oak, richly carved,... | |
 | Francis Coghlan - 1845 - 996 pages
...elaborate beauty of sculptured detail. The very walls are wrought into universal ornament ; and the stone seems, by the cunning labour of the chisel, to have been robbed of its weight and density. Nothing impresses the mind with a deeper feeling of loneliness than to tread this scene of grandeur,... | |
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The very walls are wrought into universal ornament, incrusted with tracery, and scooped into niches, crowded with the statues of saints and martyrs. Stone seems, by the cunning labour of the chisel, to have been robbed of its weight and density, suspended... 
