...? How may we avoid running into extremes ? F. I might reply with one of my favourite authors, — " Give all thou canst ; high Heaven rejects the lore Of nicely calculated less or more;" but I will give you a more practical Anglo-Saxon sort of rule. The splendour and expense of Divine...

...those of a purer art, as the antediluvian monsters did at the sound of Adam's footsteps. Immense Cwurt. And glorious work of fine intelligence, Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore Of nicely calculated,—less or more. So deemed the man who fashioned for the sense These lofty pillars, spread...

...splendors cheer Isis and Cam, to patient Science dear ! XLIII. INSIDE OF KING'S COLLEGE CHAPEL, CAMBRIDGE. TAX not the royal Saint with vain expense, With ill-matched aims the Architect who planned — Albeit laboring for a scanty band Of white-robed Scholars only — this immense And glorious Work of fine...

...time. Tax not the Royal Saint with vain expense, With ill-match'd aims the Architect who plann'd — Albeit labouring for a scanty band Of white-robed...fine intelligence. Give all thou canst; high Heaven requests the lore Of nicely-calculated less or more ; So deem'd the man who fashion'd for the sense...

...was commanded and recognized under the Old dispensation, has passed on to the New. In fact, if * " Give all thou canst ; high Heaven rejects the lore Of nicely calculated less or more."—? Wordsworth. a Church is to be regarded as a Temple built for the worship of the Most High, and not...

...was paid. To them, however, a poetical bencher in consolation recited, and iii print repeated — " Give all thou canst ; high heaven rejects the lore Of nicely calculated less or more." And, indeed, there is every reason to believe that high heaven has not rejected the societies "lore"...

...the first line is of course to Henry VI. Tax IK (he royal saint with vain expense, With ¡ll-match'd aims the Architect who planned— Albeit labouring for a scanty band Of while-rob'd scholars only — this immense And glorious work of fine intelligence! Give all thou canst;...

...238 CHAPTER XI. LETTERS 253 CHAPTER XII. OBSTACLES: WHO SHALL REMOTE THEM? . . 280 INTRODUCTORY. " Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore Of nicely calculated less and more." WORDSWORTH. A FEW weeks ago I was visiting the library in the British Museum. Two gentlemen,...

...Wordsworth's fine sonnets upon the interior : Tax not the royal saint with vain expense, With ill-matehed aims the Architect who planned — Albeit labouring for a scanty band Of white robed scholars only — this immense And glorious Work of fine intelligence! Give all thou canst;...

...regarding the impressive loveliness of King's College Chapel, Cambridge : — " Tax not the royal S¡iint with vain expense, With ill-matched aims the Architect...Give all thou canst ; high Heaven rejects the lore Of nicely-calculated less or more ; So deemed the man who fashioned for the sense These lofty pillars,...