... and, beyond the church, rise the shelves of rock, overhung with fern and ivy, which echoed their first litanies. ' Where could a place ' — we cannot deny ourselves the pleasure of quoting a passage which so truly reproduces the spirit of the scene,... Fasti Eboracenses: Lives of the Archbishops of York - Стр. 177авторы: William Henry Dixon - 1863 - Страниц: 496Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| 1864 - Страниц: 602
...reproduces the spirit of the scene, — ' Whore could a place bo found more fit to convince the reclnse, if it were only by the force of contrast, that the...to God ? The great book of Nature was daily open to tho Cistercian there, and he would sec in it what to other readers was meaningless and vain. The heavens... | |
| Richard John King - 1874 - Страниц: 508
...Where could a place ' — to quote a passage which truly reproduces the spirit of the scene, — ' Where could a place be found more fit to convince...could he live more purely, more devotedly, to God i The great book of Nature was daily open to the Cistercian then, and he would see in it what to other... | |
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