 ... comprising a general effect, which, from its grandeur and intricacy, amuses at once, and delights the spectator. In fact, this rich intermixture of towers, and battlements, and projecting windows, highly sculptured, joined to the height of the houses,...  The miscellaneous prose works of sir Walter Scott - Seite viivon sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Walter Scott - 1816 - 534 Seiten
...sculptured, joined to the height of the houses, and the variety of ornament upon their fronts, produce an effect as superior to those of the tame uniformity...accustomed to take their ideas of a fine street from Portland place, or from the George street of Edinburgh, where a long and uniform breadth, of causeway... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1816 - 528 Seiten
...sculptured, joined to the height of the houses, and the variety of ornament upon their fronts, produce an effect as superior to those of the tame uniformity...accustomed to take their ideas of a fine street from Portland place, or from the George street of Edinburgh, where a long and uniform breadth of causeway... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1816 - 500 Seiten
...sculptured, joined to the height of the houses, and the variety of ornament upon their fronts, produce an effect as superior to those of the tame uniformity...accustomed to take their ideas of a fine street from Portland place, or from the George's street of Edinburgh, where a long and uniform breadth of causeway... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1816 - 488 Seiten
...sculptured, joined to the height of the houses, and the variety of ornament upon their fronts, produce an effect as superior to those of the tame uniformity...over the slouched broad-brimmed beaver of a Quaker. 1 insist the more on this, for the benefit of those of the fireside at* * * *, who are accustomed to... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1816 - 294 Seiten
...sculptured, joined to the height of the houses, and the variety of ornament upon their fronts, produce an effect as superior to those of the tame uniformity...the casque of the warrior exhibits over the slouched broad-brimmecj beaver of a Quaker. I insist the more on this, for the benefit of those of the fireside... | |
 | 1827 - 730 Seiten
...sculptured, joined to the height of the houses and the variety of ornaments upon their fronts, produce an effect as superior to those of the tame uniformity...exhibits over the slouched broadbrimmed beaver of the Quaker. We insist the more on this for the benefit 'of those who are accustomed to take their ideas... | |
 | 1827 - 728 Seiten
...sculptured, joined to the height of the houses and the variety of ornaments upon their fronts, produce an effect as superior to those of the tame uniformity of a ino.dern street, as the casque of the warrior exhibits over the slouched broadbrimmed beaver of the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 456 Seiten
...architecture of the earlier part of the last age, or the more fantastic structures 8 THE FLEMINGS HOUSES. of our own day. It is in the streets of Antwerp and...accustomed to take their ideas of a fine street from Portland Place, or from the George Street of Edinburgh, where a long and uniform breadth of causeway... | |
 | 1838 - 582 Seiten
...the same time would cost if spent at a fashionable watering-place in England." — Mrs. Trollope. " It is in the streets of Antwerp and Brussels that...over the slouched broad-brimmed beaver of a Quaker." — Sir Walter Scott. In England, Gothic architecture is almost entirely confined to churches'; in... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1838 - 612 Seiten
...various ornaments, and terminating in roofs, the slope of which is concealed from the eye by wmdows and gables still more highly ornamented ; the whole...over the slouched broad-brimmed beaver of a Quaker." — Sir Walter Scott. In England, Gothic architecture is almost entirely confined to churches'; in... | |
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