A guide for strangers and visitors through the city of York. Revised1852 |
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Page 54 - Enter : its grandeur overwhelms thee not ; And why ? it is not lessen'd ; but thy mind, Expanded by the genius of the spot, Has grown colossal, and can only find A fit abode wherein appear enshrined Thy hopes of immortality ; and thou Shalt one day, if found worthy, so denned, See thy God face to face, as thou dost now His Holy of Holies, nor be blasted by His brow.
Page 24 - TIME rolls his ceaseless course. The race of yore Who danced our infancy upon their knee, And told our marvelling boyhood legends store, Of their strange ventures happ'd by land or sea, How are they blotted from the things that be ! How few, all weak and withered of their force, Wait, on the verge of dark eternity, Like stranded wrecks, the tide returning hoarse, To sweep them from our sight! Time rolls his ceaseless course.
Page 48 - But thou, of temples old, or altars new, Standest alone — with nothing like to thee — Worthiest of God, the holy and the true. Since Zion's desolation, when that He Forsook his former city, what could be, Of earthly structures, in his honor piled, Of a sublimer aspect ? Majesty, Power, Glory, Strength, and Beauty, all are aisled In this eternal ark of worship undefiled.
Page 35 - Landing, have here performed their several parts, Then left the stage to others. Not a stone In the broad pavement, but to him who has An eye, an ear for the Inanimate World, Tells of Past Ages.
Page 69 - The upper part is a piece of admirable tracery ; below which, are one hundred and seventeen partitions, representing so much of holy writ, that it almost takes in the whole history of the Bible. This window was begun to be glazed, at the charge of the dean and chapter, anno 1405 ; who then contracted with John Thornton, of Coventry, glazier, to execute it.
Page 80 - Thursday, the time of the annual perambulation of the boundaries. The lads of the parish provide themselves with bundles of sedge, and while the clerk is inscribing the boundary at the specified places, they strike his legs below the knee with their bundles. The place nearest the clerk, or that which gives the best chance of exercising this popular prerogative, is eagerly contended for.
Page 98 - York, and suburbs of the same, are many parish churches, which, heretofore, the same being well inhabited and replenished with people, were good and honest livings for learned incumbents, by reason of the privy...
Page 137 - These bricks are placed some length-ways, some end-ways in the wall, and were called lateres diutoiii ; after these five courses of brick, other twenty-two courses of small square stones, as before described, are laid, which raise the wall some feet higher, and then five more courses of the same Roman bricks ; beyond which the wall is imperfect, and capped with modem building.
Page 137 - The outside of the wall towards the river is faced with a very small saxum quadratum of about four inches thick, and laid in levels like our modern brick-work. The length of the stones is not observed, but they are as they fell out, in hewing. From the foundation twenty 13 courses of these small squared stones are laid, and over them five courses of Roman brick.
Page 50 - The North Transept exhibits the finished neatness and plainness of the first period of the pointed style. The walls both of the aisle and doorway are finished with a block cornice, with enriched mouldings and plain parapet.