Nothing can be more striking than the effect at first entering within the walls from the town; when, through a dark gloomy gateway of considerable length and depth, the eye suddenly emerges into one of the most splendid scenes that can be imagined; and... The Antiquities of England and Wales - עמוד 47מאת Francis Grose - 1784תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
| Walley Chamberlain Oulton - 1805 - 854 דפים
...length and depth, the eye suddenly emerges into one of the most splendid scenes that can be imagined ; and is presented at once with the great body of the...surrounded with fair semicircular towers, finely swelling 10 tlieeye, and gaily adorned with pinnacle , figures, balllemenls, &c. The impression is still farther... | |
| Regina Maria Roche - 1807 - 498 דפים
...and awe at the splendid scene, rendered still more so by the rising sun striking full upon it, which the great body of the inner castle, surrounded with fair semicircular towers, proudly swelling to the eye, and magnificently adorned with pinnacles, statues, and battlements, presented... | |
| W. Davison - 1822 - 390 דפים
...length and depth, the eye suddenly emerges into one of the most splendid scenes that can be imagined, and is presented at once with the great body of the...adorned with pinnacles, figures, battlements, &c. * *' » 1 Over the entrance of this gateway there is placed the figure of a lion rampant, with the... | |
| Youth's instructor - 1822 - 488 דפים
...within the walls, from the town, is very striking. After passing through a long, gloomy gateway, the eye is presented, at once, -with the great body of the inner castle, surrounded with semi-circular towers, finely adorned with pinnacles, figures, and battlements. The impression is heightened... | |
| Regina Maria Roche - 1825 - 324 דפים
...astonishment and awe at the splendid scene, rendered still more so by the rising sun striking full upon it, with the great body of the inner castle, surrounded with fair semi-circular towers, proudly swelling to the eye, and magnificently adorned with pinnacles, statues, and battlements, presented... | |
| William Parson - 1827 - 692 דפים
...and depth : here the eye suddenly emerges into one of the most splendid scenes that can be imagined, and is presented at once with the great body of the...Castle, surrounded with fair semicircular towers, adorned with pinnacles, figures, battlements, &c. The impression is still further heightened by the... | |
| Thomas Rose - 1832 - 242 דפים
...of the castle. The eye suddenly emerges into one of the most splendid scenes that can be imagined, and is presented at once with the great body of the inner castle, surrounded with noble semicircular towers, adorned with figures, pinnacles, and battlements. The impression increases... | |
| 1834 - 336 דפים
...and depth, the stranger snddenly emerges into one of the most splendid scenes that can he imagined, and is presented at once with the great body of the inner castle, surrounded by semicircular towers, expanding majestically to the eye, and gaily adorned with pinnacle*, figures... | |
| James Bell - 1836 - 1004 דפים
...length and depth, the eye suddenly emerges into one of the most splendid scenes that can be imagined ; and is presented at once with the great body of the...figures, battlements, &c. The impression is still further heightened by the successive entrance into the second and third courts, through great massy towers,... | |
| Jerrold Vernon, Grace Horsley Darling - 1839 - 514 דפים
...imagination could have pictured. At once they beheld the beautiful proportions of the castle, surrounded with semicircular towers, finely swelling to the eye, and gaily adorned with pinnacles, figures, and battlements. Grace found the power of language inadequate to express her admiration ; and Mr. Darling,... | |
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