In respect to this subject, Mr. Owen Jones has said: "The nave and aisles of a Gothic church become absurd when filled with pews for Protestant worship, where all are required to see and hear.
As the visitor wanders among the shaded aislesof the western part of Mount Auburn, he sees a massive monument of marble, designed by Allston, the poet-painter.
They reposed for five hundred years in one of the aisles of the Paraclete, and after various changes, came to rest at last in the beautiful cemetery of Pere-la-Chaise at Paris.
Yes, these aisles held a charm and fascination all their own.
Putting her utmost strength into this flight, she dashed past counters strewn with goods, round a bank of elevators, through narrow aisles jammed with shoppers, across a narrow court and again into the throng.
The factories that were not working were sparsely lighted; to Graham they and their shrouded aisles of giant machines seemed plunged in gloom, and even where work was going on the illumination was far less brilliant than upon the public ways.
The shadowy forms of the worshippers, as they kneel in the receding aisles of the church, lend atmosphere to the study.
The church tower and castle rise above a forest of patrician trees, while umbrageous aisles of green give vistas of scenes "where Boccaccio might have wooed and Watteau painted.
Lofty aisles are connected with the nave by corresponding arches; the clerestory is comparatively small.
In the interior, the nave andaisles are partially of old construction, but the beautiful choir is the XIX century building of Révoil.
The walls and buttresses which enclose the aislesare plain, and it is only by comparison with this architectural Puritanism that the façade may be considered ornate.
It is without aisles and the chapels are discreetly hidden between the piers.
Its nave and each of the narrow side aisles rise to round tunnel-vaults; there are but five bays, and the last is covered by a small, octagonal dome.
At the lower termination of the side aisles of the cathedral, stood dark mahogany confessionals, with blinds at the sides--reminding one of sentry boxes.
There was no sound, no murmur of cattle-bells from mountain pastures now, nothing stirring through the magic aisles where the matched columns of beech and pine towered in the perfect symmetry of all planted forests.
She had caught sight of them amid the dusk of the ancient trees--was following them, stealthily, murderously, through the dim aisles of this haunted forest of Les Errues.
The Norman aisles have stone vaults, except in the three western bays, and it is noteworthy that the arches leading into the transept are of horseshoe type.
The east ends of the two choir aisles have in quite recent years been provided with altars and fitted up as chapels for week-day services.
The inner roof of the three western bays of the nave aisles which had not been, like those of the other bays, vaulted in stone, were restored in wood and plaster about 1850, when the Hon.
The ends of the choir aisles are apsidal within, but flat without.
The aisles have stone quadripartite vaulting except in the added bays to the west, where the vaulting is merely plaster.
At the corners of the aislesare rectangular buttresses and two similar ones stand at the ends of the main walls of the nave.
They threaded the forest aisles without hesitation, crossed a deep ravine where the man paused to drink, and began to clamber the precipitous and rocky sides of Baldy.
Bob glanced again down the aisles of what looked to him like a noble forest, but said nothing.
New aislesopened down the woodlands, aisles at the end of which stood silvered, ghostly trees thus distinguished by the moonbeams from their unnumbered brethren.
I wasn't safe yet, and I didn't feel safe, but I felt encouraged enough to slow down to a fast walk through the aisles of the men's clothing section.
We went up to the third level and then through a maze of aisles and departments before going out a door that opened on a parking lot.
There were low crags and smooth stone ridges, between which were aisles green with cedar and pinyon.
Shefford and Fay were walking in the aisles of moonlight and the patches of shade, and Nas Ta Bega, more than ever a shadow of his white brother, followed them silently.
Its floor is brown and sweet-smelling, its aisles outlined by the tread of generations of worshippers.
Back in the dim cathedral aisles are reddish glows which must mean still others.
As I stood gazing at the scene in awestruck wonder, a slight breeze rocked the tops of the pine trees, and moaning through their long and gloomy aisles reverberated like thunder.
The pillars dividing the nave from the side-aisles are enormous composite masses, each one consisting of six Corinthian columns, stuck around and against a central shaft.
The interior is divided into a nave and two side-aisles by rows of square pillars, from which spring pointed arches.
The large dimensions of the building gave it a truly grand effect, and but for the whine of a distant jackal I could have believed that we were sitting in the aisles of a roofless Gothic cathedral, in the heart of Europe.
A wilderness of columns connected by double arches (one springing above the other, with an opening between), spread their dusky aislesbefore me in the morning twilight.
The candle flared up for an instant, revealing black, mysterious aisles among the ponderous tree-trunks, then guttered down and almost went out, the darkness seeming to swoop in upon its defeat.
Between these dark vanguards, long, silent aisles of whiteness led back and gently upward into the heart of the forest.
Hunted through the silent and pallid aisles of the forest.
There were open spots and aisles and squares of sand; and hedging rows of prickly pear and the huge spider-legged ocatillo and hummocky masses of clustered bisnagi.
It was wonderful how he slipped Diablo through the narrow aisles of thorns, saving the horse and saving himself.
The clearing of the dark foreground appeared to lift a distant veil and show endless aisles of desert reaching down between dim horizon-bounding ranges.
For that reason, therefore, attending under that Pontiff to works of no great importance, Antonio restored the aisles of the Church of S.
The bay horse had threaded the aisles of the thicket.
There were narrow aisles and washes and holes low down and paths brushed by animals, all of which he took advantage of, running, walking, crawling, stooping any way to get along.
I believe the side aisles were of equal height with the main aisle in the Cologne Cathedral, but the archways and pillars cut them off more, so that it had a different effect.
There were two rows of benches with aisles between, and a little raised platform and pulpit at one end.
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