The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland illustrated, by R. W. Billings [with letterpress by J. H. Burton]. |
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... light and rich ; in others , a building comparatively meagre is enriched by the massiveness of the decorations ; but here the art both of the designer and the decorator - whether the same person or different - has been employed to the ...
... light and rich ; in others , a building comparatively meagre is enriched by the massiveness of the decorations ; but here the art both of the designer and the decorator - whether the same person or different - has been employed to the ...
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... lights — the perfection of the chiselling is the same . The guides are in the habit of sticking a straw through the openings of the floral carving , and passing it out at another opening , to show that the work is genuine - finished ...
... lights — the perfection of the chiselling is the same . The guides are in the habit of sticking a straw through the openings of the floral carving , and passing it out at another opening , to show that the work is genuine - finished ...
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... light airy effect , and at a distance appears as if it were an architectural effort of peculiar originality , instead of being an accidental effect produced by the destructive hand of time . However it may be with the lover of the ...
... light airy effect , and at a distance appears as if it were an architectural effort of peculiar originality , instead of being an accidental effect produced by the destructive hand of time . However it may be with the lover of the ...
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... light from the west , the outlines of the details of these windows are conveyed to the eye by a strong contrast between the light , and the opaque masses by which it is obstructed ; and the spectator is reminded , more forcibly than he ...
... light from the west , the outlines of the details of these windows are conveyed to the eye by a strong contrast between the light , and the opaque masses by which it is obstructed ; and the spectator is reminded , more forcibly than he ...
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... light is admitted to the interior through the door . HISTORICAL SKETCH . The early history of this religious house is interesting , from its connexion with that of the origin of the royal house of Stuart . Walter , the son of Alan , a ...
... light is admitted to the interior through the door . HISTORICAL SKETCH . The early history of this religious house is interesting , from its connexion with that of the origin of the royal house of Stuart . Walter , the son of Alan , a ...
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ABBEY OF PAISLEY Abbot Abbot of Paisley Aberdeen Aberdeenshire accompanying plate aisle ancient Antiquities appears arch architecture Ballogie baronial beautiful biggit Bishop Blackwood & Sons building built called Castle Stewart chancel character chimneys church conspicuous Court Yard decorated Douglas Drawn by RW Earl ecclesiastical edifice English Engraved erected fortalice fortress Gothic Gothic architecture inscription interior James King kirk Kirkwall Castle Laird Lord mansion Maybole MELROSE ABBEY Monan monks Moray mouldings Muchalls Nave neighbouring NOLTLAND CASTLE ornament Palace parish peculiar perpendicular picturesque Pinkie PINKIE HOUSE Pluscarden PLUSCARDEN PRIORY portion possession Published by William remains remarkable rich roof ROSSLYN CHAPEL round ruin RW Billings says Scotland Scottish Seton side South Transept Spynie SPYNIE PALACE square tower St Monan stands STIRLING CASTLE stone style TANTALLON CASTLE thairof Tolquhon town tracery transept turrets Udney vaults View walls William Blackwood WINTOUN HOUSE Woodcut
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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.