219 examples of mediæval in sentences

We note simply that it is mediæval in spirit, and French in style and expression; and that sums up the age.

He was a scholar, familiar with all the intellectual interests of his age, and his work has much of the precision and polish of the classical school; but he shares also the reawakened interest in nature, in common man, and in mediæval culture, and his work is generally romantic both in style and in spirit.

His "Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands" (1750) is an interesting event in the romantic revival, for it introduced a new world, of witches, pygmies, fairies, and mediæval kings, for the imagination to play in.

Roman and mediæval sorcery had its origin in that of ancient Accad.]

But through all its Mediæval period, from the eleventh century down to the Reformation, with an expiring flicker of energy in the seventeenth, there is no lack of life and colour, and its story touches every side of the national life, political, religious, and domestic.

In 1793 Wyatt, the architect responsible for so much destruction of Mediæval work in various cathedrals, advised that a timber framework to carry the bells should be built up within the tower from the ground and that the tower arch should be bricked up.

As an illustration of mediæval methods of church building, it is interesting to trace the growth of the structure with the help of the few historical notices already given and the evidence of the building itself.

Three represent scenes from the popular mediæval allegory of "the Dance of Death.

The group of sons is well treated, the variations in pose and dress show the hand of one who was accustomed to study composition, and the result is very different from the formal repetition of equal or lessening figures usual on mediæval brasses and Elizabethan tombs.

The arcading is purely Renaissance in detail though the general treatment is mediæval.

The site was granted to the city and the buildings thrown down, only the spire with its supporting walls and arches being allowed to stand until 1829, when it was incorporated with the new nave of Christ Church from the designs of Rickman, to whom we are indebted for the first comprehensive and systematic account of English Mediæval architecture.

The work shows how imperfectly in those days even a genuine admirer of Mediæval Art understood its spirit.

His passion for the mediæval was excited by reading Percy's Reliques when he was a boy; and in one of his school themes he maintained that Ariosto was a greater poet than Homer.

The influence of these studies is seen in his poem, Isabella, or the Pot of Basil, taken from a story of Boccaccio; in his wild ballad, La Belle Dame sans Merci; and in his love tale, the Eve of St. Agnes, with its wealth of mediæval adornment.

The Princess, a Medley, published in 1849, represents the eclectic character of Tennyson's art; a mediæval tale with an admixture of modern sentiment, and with the very modern problem of woman's sphere for its theme.

By Miss MARIE R. GARESCHE.The principles of ornament and relations between nature and art; ancient and mediæval art contrasted.1 illustration.

CATHAY, the name given to China by mediæval writers, which it still bears in Central Asia.

Lombardy, on two islands in the river Mincio, 83 m. E. of Milan, is a somewhat gloomy and unhealthy town, with many heavy mediæval buildings; there are saltpetre refineries, weaving and tanning industries.

Robert Hart's next mission was to Peking itself, the grey, wall-ringed mediæval city where he was afterwards to spend so many years, and where he stayed with Sir Frederick Bruce at the British Legationthen, as now, housed in a fine old Chinese building.

It is quite a mediæval faceif you know what I mean by a mediæval face.

It is quite a mediæval faceif you know what I mean by a mediæval face.

"And how can we know for certain that the mediæval type did actually differ from the type we see before us every day?"

I will tell you another conclusion I have come to with regard to this subject; and that is that national types were less distinctive in mediæval times than in ours.

These books opened a new world to me; and, having daily access to two fine public libraries, I plunged at once into a course of new and delightful reading, ranging over all that fertile tract of song and history that begins far away in the morning land of mediæval romance, and leads on, century after century, to the new era that began with the Revolution.

Here is an old mediæval gateway at Solothurn, in Switzerland.

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