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It is such solitude that speaks in the first "Impression of Notre-Dame" with its gray mounting masses, its cloisteral reverberation of bells, its savage calls of the city to one standing alone with the monument of a dead age.

Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Paul Rosenfeld 1918

Some of his views "might seem like broken visions of the future, when we think of the first disciples who had all things in common, and, in later days, of the celibate clergy, and the cloisteral life of the religious orders."

A Short History of Monks and Monasteries Alfred Wesley Wishart 1899

And upon this ground, many cloisteral men of great learning and devotion prefer contemplation before action.

The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I Various 1885

The style of his discourse was adapted to cloisteral disputations, and overloaded with scholastic distinctions.

Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots John Addington Symonds 1866

Yet, notwithstanding this robust health and the strength of the convent walls, the time was drawing near when St. Sebastian's lease in Kate must, in legal phrase, 'determine;' and any _chateaux en Espagne_, that the Saint might have built on the cloisteral fidelity of his pet

Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers — Volume 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822

Yet, notwithstanding this robust health and the strength of the convent walls, the time was drawing near when St. Sebastian's lease in Kate must, in legal phrase, 'determine;' and any _chateaux en Espagne_, that the Saint might have built on the cloisteral fidelity of his pet

Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers Thomas De Quincey 1822

Indeed, all the great foundation schools of London, bearing in their very codes of organization the impress of a double function -- viz., the conservation of sound learning and of pure religion -- wear something of a monastic or cloisteral character in their aspect and usages, which is peculiarly impressive, and even pathetic, amidst the uproars of a capital the most colossal and tumultuous upon earth.

Biographical Essays Thomas De Quincey 1822

And upon this ground, many cloisteral men of great learning and devotion, prefer contemplation before action.

The Complete Angler Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683 1760

Come, fair cousins, we hope to make the cloisteral life so pleasing, that it may be an inducement to you to quit the wicked world for ever.

The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 04 John Dryden 1665

And upon this ground, many cloisteral men of great learning and devotion, prefer contemplation before action.

The Compleat Angler : or, The Contemplative Man`s Recreation 1653