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These ribs spring from slender pillars between the windows and corbels heads on the other side: over the exterior of the windows are carved grotesque heads, of which we give some illustrations. The south walk of the cloisters is the more richly groined. At the south-east corner is a square turreted tower containing a small chamber, which has been carefully and completely restored.
The Wyatt disaster was too recent for him to feel much pleasure at playing against Ripton vice his friend, withdrawn. Bob was the next to interview him. They met in the cloisters. "Hullo, Mike!" said Bob. "I say, what's all this about Wyatt?" "Wain caught him getting back into the dorm. last night after Neville-Smith's, and he's taken him away from the school." "What's he going to do?
And Rome is not unaware of the frightful advance incubacy has made in the cloisters in our days." "That proves that continence is hard to bear in solitude," said Des Hermies. "It merely proves that the soul is feeble and that people have forgotten how to pray," said Carhaix.
For, hooded and wrapped about with that strange and antique garb, there walks a kingly, a most royal soul, even as the Emperor Charles walked amid solemn cloisters under a monk's cowl; a monarch still in soul. Such things are not new in the history of the world.
At the lower end of the court, adjoining the canons' houses behind the Horse-shoe Cloisters, stands the Collegiate Library, the date of which is uncertain, though it may perhaps be referred to this period. The establishment was enriched in later times by a valuable library, bequeathed to it by the Earl of Ranelagh.
A possibility had struck him, which had not struck any of the Channings; and it was curious that it had not done so. "I think not, sir," replied Tom. "Then, that's where Charles is, locked up in the cloisters!" said the master, the recollection of the former locking-up no doubt helping him to the conclusion.
The King was anxious that his idea should be carried out, but whenever he mentioned it to M. Mansard and the other architects, they declared that it was a great pity to lose Lesueur's admirable frescos in the cloisters, which would have to be destroyed if the King's vast scheme were executed.
Sound suggestive of still cloisters, of sleepless nights in crowded cities, of vigils and the awaited hour, of all that is orderly and methodical in life, booming out pregnant and mysterious in this fantastic desert!
And so we went through the lamp-lit houses till at last we reached the shore of the great harbour, and turned to the right along a wide way paved with granite and bordered by strong houses, having cloisters in front of them, the like of which I had never seen.
It is the Soho Bazaar transplanted into the gloomy cloisters of Oxford." He writes to a friend just before he started on his tour: "There is much that I am impatient to see, but two things specially, the Palais Royal, and the man who called me the Aristarchus of Edinburgh."
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