The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland illustrated, by R. W. Billings [with letterpress by J. H. Burton]. |
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... tradition . The lovers of popular poetry will remember the ballad of Johnny Faa , commencing with— " The gipsies came to our ha ' door , And oh but they sang bonny- They sang sae sweet , and sae complete , That down came our bonny ladie ...
... tradition . The lovers of popular poetry will remember the ballad of Johnny Faa , commencing with— " The gipsies came to our ha ' door , And oh but they sang bonny- They sang sae sweet , and sae complete , That down came our bonny ladie ...
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... tradition , ultimately deposited within the abbey . The present buildings are all of a date posterior to these events , and no portion of them appears to be older than the fifteenth century . In their revival , after the War of ...
... tradition , ultimately deposited within the abbey . The present buildings are all of a date posterior to these events , and no portion of them appears to be older than the fifteenth century . In their revival , after the War of ...
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... Tradition says that Mary was present at the battle ; and an elevated rock , which had overlooked the whole field of conflict , is still called Queen Mary's Chair . It was on this expedition that the spirited young Queen is reported to ...
... Tradition says that Mary was present at the battle ; and an elevated rock , which had overlooked the whole field of conflict , is still called Queen Mary's Chair . It was on this expedition that the spirited young Queen is reported to ...
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... Tradition informs us that part of it was erected by Sir William Wallace , when governor of Scotland , as a hunting seat for his friend Sir Thomas Longuville " † — a vague sort of tradition applied to many Scottish strongholds . It ...
... Tradition informs us that part of it was erected by Sir William Wallace , when governor of Scotland , as a hunting seat for his friend Sir Thomas Longuville " † — a vague sort of tradition applied to many Scottish strongholds . It ...
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... tradition reports his remains to be immured within the walls of the staircase , and a huge stone on the exterior is pointed out as his coffin lid . Massive construction in the basement is however well relieved by the fanciful design of ...
... tradition reports his remains to be immured within the walls of the staircase , and a huge stone on the exterior is pointed out as his coffin lid . Massive construction in the basement is however well relieved by the fanciful design of ...
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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.