 | England - 1818 - 762 pages
...sabres and crape sashes on horseback, the drums muffled, the fifes, bells tolling, and minute guns,— all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance...choir and almsmen bearing torches ; the whole abbey so illuminated, that one saw it to greater advantage than by day ; the tombs, long aisles, and fretted... | |
 | 1818 - 806 pages
...sabres and crape sashes on horseback, the drums muffled, the fifes, bells tolling, and minute guns,— all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance...choir and almsmen bearing torches ; the whole abbey so illuminated, that one saw it to greater advantage than by day ; the tombs, long aisles, and fretted... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1818 - 622 pages
...sabres and crape sashes on horseback, the drums muffled, the fifes, bells tolling, and minute guns, — all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance...choir and almsmen bearing torches ; the whole abbey so illuminated, that one saw it to greater advantage than by day; the tombs, long aisles, and fretted... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1818 - 600 pages
...sabres and crape sashes on horseback, the drums muffled, the fifes, bells tolling, and minute guns, — all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance...choir and almsmen bearing torches; the whole abbey so illuminated, that one saw it to greater advantage than by day; the tombs, long aisles, and fretted... | |
 | 1818 - 598 pages
...sabres and crape sashes on horseback, the drums muffled, the tifes, bells tolling, and minute guns, — all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance...the dean and chapter in rich robes, the choir and almsmea bearing torches; the whole abbey so illuminated, that one saw it to greater advantage than... | |
 | English literature - 1818 - 606 pages
...sabres and crape sashes on horseback, the drums muffled, the fifes, bells tolling, and minute guns, — all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance of the abbey, where we werr received by the dean and chapter in rich robes, the choir and almsmen bearing torches; the whole... | |
 | 1819 - 630 pages
...sabres and crape sashes on horseback, the drums muffled, the fifes, bells tolling, and minute guns, — all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance...choir and almsmen bearing torches ; the whole abbey so illuminated, that one saw it to greater advantage than by day ; the tombs, long aisles, and fretted... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1820 - 526 pages
...sabres and crape sashes on horseback, the drums muffled, the fifes, bells tolling, and minute guns, — all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance...choir and almsmen bearing torches; the whole abbey so illuminated, that one saw it to greater advantage than by day ; the tombs, long aisles, and fretted... | |
 | Robert Huish - Great Britain - 1821 - 746 pages
...sabres, and crape sashes, on horseback, the drums muffled, the fifes, bells tolling, and minute guns — all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance...choir and alms-men bearing torches ; the whole Abbey so illuminated, that one saw it to greater advantage than by day ; the tombs, long1 aisles, and fretted... | |
 | Franklin James Didier - England - 1822 - 218 pages
..."I walked in as a rag of quality, which I found to be the easiest way of seeing the royal funeral. The charm was the entrance of the Abbey, where we...choir and almsmen bearing torches; the whole Abbey so illuminated, that one saw it to greater advantage than by day; the tombs, long aisles and fretted... | |
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... all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance of the Abbey, where we were received by the Dean and Chapter in rich robes, the choir and almsmen bearing torches; the whole Abbey so illuminated, that one saw it to greater advantage than by... 
