 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - Scotland - 1845 - 572 pages
...uncommonly elegant and beautiful. Sir Walter Scott, in describing this part of the building, says — " The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts...poplars straight the osier wand In many a freakish knot had twined ; Then framed a spell when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone."... | |
 | Walter Scott - Scottish poetry - 1845 - 382 pages
...a more beautiful specimen of the lightness and elegance of Gothic architecture, when in its purity, By foliaged tracery combined ; Thou would'st have...thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the ozier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined ; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And... | |
 | Robert William Billings - 1845 - 202 pages
...this occasion than dull prose — " The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts of stately stone, By foliaged tracery combined : Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand 'Twist poplars straight the osier wand In many a freakish knot had twined, Then framed a spell when... | |
 | Jean Froissart - Great Britain - 1847 - 378 pages
...beautiful specimen of Gothic architecture, has been most touchingly portrayed by the same pen : — " The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts...poplars straight the osier wand In many a freakish knot had twined; Then framed a spell when the work was done, And changed the willow-wreaths to stone. The... | |
 | Great Britain - 1847 - 582 pages
...east oriel shone, Throngh slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined ; Thou would*t have thought some fairy's hand, 'Twixt poplars straight the osier wand, In many a freakUh knot, had twined ; Then framed a spell, when the work was done. And changed the willow-wreaths... | |
 | 1881 - 494 pages
...Save where the beetle winds his dusky flight, And drowsy I inklings lull the distant folds." GRAY. " The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts of shapely stone." SCOTT. WHEN John Armstrong came down to breakfast the next morning, he found the coffee-room nearly... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - Architecture - 1848 - 512 pages
...to flames. This kind of tracery is beautifully described by Sir Walter Scott. " The moon on the vast oriel shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stone,...thought some fairy's hand, 'Twixt poplars straight, the ozier wand In many a freakish knot had twined ; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1848 - 660 pages
...Walter Scott in his " Lay of the Last Minstrel," occasioned by a moonlight scene at Melrose, — " The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts...shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined ; Thou %vould'st have thought some fairy's hand Twilt poplars straight the ozier wand, In many a freakish... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1848 - 668 pages
...Walter Scott in his " Lay of the Last Minstrel," occasioned by a moonlight scene at Melrose, — " The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliagod tracery combined ; Thou would YI have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the... | |
 | Edward Augustus Freeman - Architecture - 1849 - 528 pages
...base and with capital flourished around, Seemed bundles of lances which garlands had bound." And— " The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts...poplars straight the osier wand, In many a freakish knot had twined. Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone."... | |
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The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined; Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the osier wand In many a freakish knot had twined; Then framed a spell, when the... 
