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thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon
thou standest is holy ground." The Hotel du
Nordy nevertheless, lights its secular tapers
within a stone cast of the church ; and we had
the superb east-end before our eyes all morning
from the window of our bedroom. I have
seldom looked on the east-end of a church with
more complete sympathy. As it flanges out in
three wide terraces, and settles down broadly
on the earth, it looks like the poop of some
great old battle ship. Hollow-backed buttresses
carry vases, which figure for the stern lanterns.
There is a roll in the ground, and the towers
just appear above the pitch of the roof, as
though the good ship were bowing lazily over an
Atlantic swell. At any moment it might be a
hundred feet away from you, climbing the next
billow. At any moment a window might open,
and some old admiral thrust forth a cocked hat,
and proceed to take an observation. The old
thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon
thou standest is holy ground." The Hotel du
Nordy nevertheless, lights its secular tapers
within a stone cast of the church ; and we had
the superb east-end before our eyes all morning
from the window of our bedroom. I have
seldom looked on the east-end of a church with
more complete sympathy. As it flanges out in
three wide terraces, and settles down broadly
on the earth, it looks like the poop of some
great old battle ship. Hollow-backed buttresses
carry vases, which figure for the stern lanterns.
There is a roll in the ground, and the towers
just appear above the pitch of the roof, as
though the good ship were bowing lazily over an
Atlantic swell. At any moment it might be a
hundred feet away from you, climbing the next
billow. At any moment a window might open,
and some old admiral thrust forth a cocked hat,
and proceed to take an observation. The old
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Early editions of Robert Louis Stevenson > Non-Fiction > Books > Inland voyage > (189) Page 167 |
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Written and printed matter > Books |
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1878 [Date published] |
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Europe >
Belgium >
Flanders >
Antwerpen province >
Antwerp
(inhabited place) [Place in text] Europe > France > Île-de-France > Val-d'Oise > Cergy-Pontois (inhabited place) [Place in text] Europe > United Kingdom > England > Greater London > London (inhabited place) [Place published] |
Subject / content: |
Description Travel Canoes |
Person / organisation: |
Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 [Illustrator] Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 [Author] Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 [Subject of text] C. Kegan Paul & Co. [Publisher] |
Person / organisation: |
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 [Author] |
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