Westminster Abbey: Its Architecture, History and Monuments, Volume 2Duffield, 1914 - 864 pages |
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Westminster Abbey, Its Architecture, History and Monuments;, Volume 1 Helen Marshall Pratt No preview available - 2018 |
Westminster Abbey, Its Architecture, History and Monuments;, Volume 1 Helen Marshall Pratt No preview available - 2017 |
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Page 663 - said, shortly before his death: "I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself, now and then, finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of Truth lay all
Page 709 - Above it stood the seraphim: each one had six wings: with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another and said, 'Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord of Hosts: the whole earth is full of His glory.
Page 771 - prison make, Nor iron bars a cage: Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage. If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
Page 771 - Ev'n such is Time, that takes on trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust: Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways Shuts up the story of our days. But from this earth, this grave, this dust, The Lord shall raise me up I trust."*
Page 539 - where the gloominess of the place and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building and the condition of the people who lie in it are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable *The Spectator, No.
Page 540 - I do not know what it is to be melancholy and can therefore take a view of nature, in her deep and solemn scenes, with the same pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones. By this means I can improve myself with those objects which others consider with terror.
Page 758 - if that chamber had any special name. Whereunto it was answered that it was named Jerusalem. Then said the King, Praise be to the Father of Heaven for now I know that I shall die in this chamber, according to the prophecy made of me beforesaid, that I should die in Jerusalem,
Page 670 - Philanthropist. . . . For thirty years his life was spent in an unwearied effort to evangelize the native races, to explore the undiscovered secrets, to abolish the desolating slave trade of Central Africa, where, with his last words, he wrote: 'All I can add in my solitude is, May Heaven's richest blessing come down on
Page 459 - He lieth buried at Westminster in one of the stateliest and daintiest monuments of Europe: both for the chapel and for the sepulchre. So that he dwelleth more richly dead, in the monument of his tomb than he did alive in Richmond or any of his palaces.
Page 664 - pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of Truth lay all undiscovered before me.