The graphic & historical illustrator, ed. by E.W. BrayleyEdward Wedlake Brayley 1834 |
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... ancient drawbridge , destroyed by order of parliament , when the tower and house were dismantled , in the year 1644. The gateway is secured by massive doors , strengthened with studs and plates of iron . Each of the northern turrets ...
... ancient drawbridge , destroyed by order of parliament , when the tower and house were dismantled , in the year 1644. The gateway is secured by massive doors , strengthened with studs and plates of iron . Each of the northern turrets ...
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... ancient architecture of Greece and Rome with that of the middle ages in our own country and others adjacent - a permission , which to have asked a century ago would have been thought to stamp any one as an ignorant barbarian . That the ...
... ancient architecture of Greece and Rome with that of the middle ages in our own country and others adjacent - a permission , which to have asked a century ago would have been thought to stamp any one as an ignorant barbarian . That the ...
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... ANCIENT AND MODERN STAINED GLASS . AMONG the numberless discoveries to which the useful and ornamental arts are indebted , few are equal in importance to the invention of GLASS ; an invention which has produced in none of those arts a ...
... ANCIENT AND MODERN STAINED GLASS . AMONG the numberless discoveries to which the useful and ornamental arts are indebted , few are equal in importance to the invention of GLASS ; an invention which has produced in none of those arts a ...
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... ancient productions ; but we have to regret another , and scarcely an inferior , evil in the almost universally unsatisfactory attempts of modern times to restore or to imitate the old remains : a subject to some notice of which the ...
... ancient productions ; but we have to regret another , and scarcely an inferior , evil in the almost universally unsatisfactory attempts of modern times to restore or to imitate the old remains : a subject to some notice of which the ...
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... ancient coats of arms , coeval with Shakspeare , in characteristic compart- ments , fill the bays of the window . When this sub- ject , therefore , is again taken up , I would recommend the painter to give it his attention , as the ...
... ancient coats of arms , coeval with Shakspeare , in characteristic compart- ments , fill the bays of the window . When this sub- ject , therefore , is again taken up , I would recommend the painter to give it his attention , as the ...
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Abbey abbot afterwards amongst ancient antiquity appears arch architecture arms beautiful Bishop Bridge building built called Castle century Chapel character church CLEGG HALL colour court Cromlech Cross curious Duke Earl edifices Edward Edward IV Eltham Palace England English erected fairies fayre feet ground Hall hath Henry Henry VIII Herefordshire Beacon hill Holy honour Jane Jane Shore John King King's knights Lady land latter London Lord Malvern Malvern Hills manor ment miles modern monuments noble observed original ornament palace persons pillar Pointed style possession present Prince Priory probably Pwcca Queen racter reign remains remarkable rich Richard Richard II river Roman Saint Saxon says scene Scotland sculpture side stone Stonehenge thee Thomas thou tion tower town tracery Tylwyth Teg Vide Wales walls Waltham Waltham Abbey Westminster Westminster Abbey William writer
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Página 229 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
Página 71 - How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven. And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it. And he called the name of that place Beth-el: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first.
Página 195 - And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah : and I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship...
Página 71 - And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night because the sun was set ; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.
Página 346 - By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites; and you whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice To hear the solemn curfew...
Página 195 - The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, -skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; -Also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.
Página 72 - Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which is in the king's dale : for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance : and he called the pillar after his own name : and it is called unto this day, Absalom's place.
Página 300 - By and by we hear news of shipwreck in the same place, and then we are to blame if we accept it not for a rock. Upon the back of that comes out a hideous monster, with fire and smoke, and then the miserable beholders are bound to take it for a cave...
Página 346 - twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war; to the dread, rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt; the strong-bas'd promontory Have I made shake and by the spurs pluck'd up The pine and cedar.
Página 188 - If I do prove her haggard, Though that her jesses were my dear heart-strings, I'd whistle her off, and let her down the wind, To prey at fortune.