Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages, that lead to nothing. Full oft within the spacious walls, When he had fifty winters o'er him, My grave Lord-Keeper led the brawls ; The seals and maces danc'd before him. Curiosities of Law and Lawyers - Strana 388podľa James Paterson - 1896 - Počet stránok 790Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | William Smith - 1836 - Počet stránok 146
...this I see ? — a yawn ! I doubt you deem the term quite pat ; And my descriptive verses — -flat. ' Rich windows, that exclude the light ; And passages, that lead to nothing. — GBAY. TAR ARE ;* TAR1.ETV RAULF.TY RA.f 0 fy ! what a horribly dirty face, Miss Tarlety Rarlety... | |
 | 1837
...may mention the description of the mansion, containing one line, which has become proverbial, — " Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing." A compliment to Lady Cobham in the eighth stanza is elegantly turned : — " The other Amazon kind... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1838 - Počet stránok 660
...Hattons there Employ'd the pow'r of Fairy hands To raise the cieling's fretted height, Each pannel in achievements clothing, Rich windows that exclude...spacious walls, When he had fifty winters o'er him, My grave Lord-Keeper led the trawls ; The seal and mace» danc'd before him. His bushy beard and shoe-strings... | |
 | Samuel Dickson - 1838 - Počet stránok 200
...contributed to the healing art? May not these be fairly summed up in two lines of Gray's Odd Story?— " Rich 'windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing." Indeed, so great a stumbling-block to a proper knowledge of medicine is this exclusive, and too minute... | |
 | Samuel Dickson - 1839
...contributed to the healing art, may be happily, or rather unhappily, summed up in the two lines of Gray : " Rich windows, that — exclude the light, And passages that lead to — nothing." What discoveries has half a century of " Pathological" research presented to the expectant world ?... | |
 | 1840
...Employed the power of fairy hands, To raise the ceiling's fretted height. Each panne) In achievement clothing Rich windows, that exclude the light. And...passages that lead to nothing Full oft, within the spacioui walla. When he had fifty wlnterso'er him, The grave Lord Keeper led thebrawls. The seals and... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - 1840
...quoted for the sake of the allusion to Elizabeth's suspected passion for the handsome lawyer : — " Full oft, within the spacious walls, When he had fifty winters o'er him. My grave lord-keeper led the brawls,3 The seals and maces danced before him. 1 Nichols' Progresses of... | |
 | Thomas Boyles Murray - 1840 - Počet stránok 40
...noone." Gray's allusion to this statesman may be well inserted after the sketch given by Naunton:— " Full oft within the spacious walls. When he had fifty winters o'er him, My grave Lord-keeper led the brawls*, The seal and maces danc'd before him. " His bushy beard and shoe-strings... | |
 | Thomas Boyles Murray - 1840 - Počet stránok 47
...noone." Gray's allusion to this statesman may be well inserted after the sketch given by Naunton : — "Full oft within the spacious walls, When he had fifty winters o'er him, My grave Lord-keeper led the brawls*, The seal and maces dancM before him. " His bushy beard and shoe-strings... | |
 | 1840
...were erected in haste, and the interior accommodations were mostly ill planned and inconvenient, " Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing." The bay window formed a remarkable contrast to the narrow loop holes of earlier times. Large windows... | |
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