 | Walter Scott - 1816 - 488 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 588 páginas
...given place to the architecture of the earlier part of the last age, or the more fantastic structures 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 538 páginas
...given place to the architecture of the earlier part of the last age, or the more fantastic structures 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... | |
 | 1827 - 730 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1838 - 582 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
 | John Murray (publishers.) - 1839 - 574 páginas
...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 (publishers.) - 1839 - 574 páginas
...projecting windows, highly sculptured, joined to the height of the houses, and the variety of orna, ment upon their fronts, produces an effect as superior...the slouched broad-brimmed beaver of a Quaker."— Sir Walter Scott. In England, Gothic architecture is almost entirely confined to churches'; in the... | |
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... ornamented ; the whole 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... 
