 And now it is all gone— like an unsubstantial pageant, faded ; and between us and the old English there lies a gulf of mystery which the prose of the historian will never adequately bridge. They cannot come to us, and our imagination can but feebly...  Untrodden English Ways - Page 239by Henry Charles Shelley - 1908 - 341 pagesFull view - About this book
 | william harrison ainsworth - 1856 - 524 pages
...And now it is all gone— like an unsubstantial pageant, faded ; and between us and the old English there lies a gulf of mystery which the prose of the...feebly penetrate to them. Only among the aisles of the cathedrals, only as we gaze upon their silent figures sleeping on their tombs, some faint conceptions... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1856 - 488 pages
...And now it is all gone — like an unsubstantial pageant faded ; and between us and the old English there lies a gulf of mystery which the prose of the...feebly penetrate to them. Only among the aisles of the cathedrals, only as we gaze upon their silent figures sleeping on their tombs, some faint Cn. i. conceptions... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1858 - 506 pages
...And now it is all gone — like an unsubstantial pageant faded; and between us and the old English there lies a gulf of mystery which the prose of the...feebly penetrate to them. Only among the aisles of the cathedrals, only as we gaze upon their silent figures sleeping on their tombs, some faint conceptions... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...unsubstantial pageant faded ; and between us and tho old English there lies a gulf of mystery which tho prose of the historian will never adequately bridge....cannot come to us, and our imagination can but feebly ponetrato to them. Only among the aisles of the cathedrals, only as we gaze upon their silent figures... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 592 pages
...And now it is all gone — like an unsubstantial pageant faded ; and between us and the old English there lies a gulf of mystery which the prose of the...feebly penetrate to them. Only among the aisles of the cathedrals, only as we gaze upon their silent figures sleeping on their tombs, some faint conceptions... | |
 | George Terry - 1880 - 294 pages
...Froude, " And now it is all gone, like an unsubstantial pageant faded; and between us and the old English there lies a gulf of mystery, which the prose of the...feebly penetrate to them. Only among the aisles of the cathedrals, only as we gaze upon their silent figures sleeping on their tombs, some faint conceptions... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1881 - 646 pages
...And now it is all gone — like an unsubstantial pageant faded; and between us and the old English there lies a gulf of mystery which the prose of the...us, and our imagination can but feebly penetrate to thenu Only among the aisles of the cathedral, only as we gaze upon their silent figures sleeping on... | |
 | George Hart - 1881 - 552 pages
...of Mr. Froude — is gone, like an unsubstantial pageant faded ; and between us and the old English there lies a gulf of mystery which the prose of the historian will never adequately bridge." To render an account of the Viol in England, at all approaching completeness, is not possible : its... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 504 pages
...And now it is all gone — like an unsubstantial pageant faded ; and between us and the old English there lies a gulf of mystery which the prose of the...their silent figures sleeping on their tombs, some fuint conceptions float before us of what these men were when they were ulive ; and perhaps in the... | |
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