Category: Travel Writing
Who that has ever looked upon the strange conglomerations of architecture that line the thoroughfares of an ancient city, bearing trace of a touch from the hand of every age, from centuries far remote,--or watched the busy scenes of modern every-day life, surrounded by solemnl...
Who that has ever looked upon the strange conglomerations of architecture that line the thoroughfares of an ancient city, bearing trace of a touch from the hand of every age, fr...
2. CHAPTER II.THE CATHEDRAL.--_Forms_.--_Symbols_.--_Early history of the Christian church_.--_Growth of superstition_.--_Influence of Paganism_.--_Government_.--_Growth of the Papacy_.--_Mon...
3. CHAPTER III.In the centre of the Old City rises one of those huge mounds, heaped up by our ancient warrior forefathers, which here and there, over the surface of our island, yet stand out i...
4. CHAPTER IV.The old city, so rich in antiquarian remains, can boast but slow progress in modern architectural developments; nor may it vie with many a younger town in its contrivances for t...
5. CHAPTER V.Our rambles have now brought us to the threshold of that quaint, but beautiful old "studwork" chamber, the guildhall; the seat of civic honour, power, and glory, with its many a...
6. CHAPTER VI.Among the many quaint specimens of the ways and doings of the ancient respectable denizens of this present sober-minded city, that have been rescued from the dim and dusty obscu...
7. CHAPTER VII.Forby, in his "Vocabulary of East Anglia," has described the whole of this district of the country as barren of superstitions or legendary lore. Its characteristics are adverse...
8. CHAPTER VIII.The sketch of the Cathedral has embraced so much of the early history of the various religious "orders," as to render but little necessary respecting the origin of the "freres,"...