The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland illustrated, by R. W. Billings [with letterpress by J. H. Burton].

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2 ページ - The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined : Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the osier wand In many a freakish knot had twined, Then framed a spell when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone.
41 ページ - The lady, before the doors were shut, conveyed herself into her lover's aparment ; but some prying duenna acquainted the countess with it, who, cutting off, as she thought, all possibility of retreat, hastened to surprise them. The young lady's ears were quick : she heard the footsteps of the old countess, ran to the top of the leads, and took the desperate leap of nine feet four inches, over a chasm of sixty feet...
12 ページ - Inverness, came in the morning from the watches, that she was not a man to know what life it was to lie all night in the fields, or to walk upon the causeway with a jack and a knapsack, a Glasgow buckler, and a broadsword.
35 ページ - Seventh, who was then in Scotland, and several other persons well versed in antiquity, to whom my mother would not hearken, thinking it beggarly to be buried after that manner.
35 ページ - Roslin combines the solidity of the Norman with the minute decorations of "the latest species of the Tudor age. It is impossible to designate the architecture of this building by any given or familiar term...
28 ページ - He acquired the lands of Pinkie, where he built ane noble house, brave stone dykes about the garden and orchards, with other commendable policie about it.
35 ページ - The arches and a good deal of the tracery are taken from forms which had been in a great measure abandoned more than a century before the date of the edifice. In fact, it draws on the riches of almost every phase of Gothic architecture, except that which was contemporaneously present in England.

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