mid-partition

Updated: May 22, 2025

I only wish that the screen, or whatever they call it, between the choir and nave, could be thrown down, so as to give us leave to take in the whole vastitude at once. I never could understand why, after building a great church, they choose to sunder it in halves by this mid-partition.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2.

I only wish that the screen, or whatever they call it, between the choir and nave, could be thrown down, so as to give us leave to take in the whole vastitude at once. I never could understand why, after building a great church, they choose to sunder it in halves by this mid-partition.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete