 Albeit labouring for a scanty band Of white-robed scholars only, this immense And glorious work of fine intelligence ! Give all thou canst ; high Heaven rejects the lore Of nicely calculated less or more.  A History of Cambridgeshire - Page 175by John William Edward Conybeare - 1897 - 306 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Nathan Boughton Warren - 1872 - 310 pages
...echoes that haunt its reverberating aisles, and repeating to myself those lines of Wordsworth, — " Tax not the royal saint with vain expense, With ill-matched aims the architect who planned, Albeit laboring for a scanty band Of white-robed scholars only, this immense And glorious work of fine intelligence... | |
 | Frederick Arnold - 1873 - 418 pages
...it, above all others in her realm." We must give two of Wordsworth's three sonnets on the chapel : "Tax not the royal saint with vain expense, With ill-matched...Give all thou canst ; high Heaven rejects the lore Of nicely caleulated less or more. So deemed the man who fashioned for the sense These lofty pillars,... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 782 pages
...CAMBRIDGE. Tax not the royal saint with vain expense, With ill-match'd aims the architect who plann'd, ]y | |U~ nicely calculated less or more ; So deom'd the man who fashioned for the sense These lofty pillars,... | |
 | 1874 - 678 pages
...with prepossessions and prejudices. On the one hand, there will be those who say, with "Wordsworth : "Tax not the royal saint with vain expense, With ill-matched aims the architect who planned, Albeit laboring for a scanty band Of white-robed scholars only, this immense And glorious work of fine intelligence.... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1875 - 728 pages
...CAMBRIDGE. TAX not the royal Saint with vain expense, With ill-match'd aims the Architect who plann'd — Albeit labouring for a scanty band Of white-robed...rejects the lore Of nicely-calculated less or more : So deem'd the man who fashion'd for the sense . These lofty pillars, spread that branching roof Self-poised,... | |
 | Dublin city, univ - 1875 - 386 pages
...poem ? 6. " Tax not the royal Saint with vain expense, With ill-match'd aims the Architect who plann'd (Albeit labouring for a scanty band Of white-robed...this immense And glorious work of fine intelligence !" Who was the royal Saint f 7. What was this glorious work f 8. " Shakspeare," says Wordsworth, "... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pages
...houses seem asleep ; And all that mighty heart is lying still ! On King's College Chapel, Cambridge. nicely calculated less or more ; So deemed the man who fashioned for the sense These lofty pillars,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 290 pages
...Alone, beneath this fairy work of earth. William Wordsworth. INSIDE OF KING'S COLLEGE CHAPEL, CAMBRIDGE. TAX not the royal saint with vain expense, With ill-matched aims the architect who planned — Albeit laboring for a scanty band Of white-robed scholars only — this immense And glorious work of fine... | |
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