Handbook to Gothic architecture

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Page 201 - Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the huge castle holds its state, And all the steep slope down, Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town...
Page 206 - Of all the palaces so fair, Built for the royal dwelling In Scotland, far beyond compare Linlithgow is excelling; And in its park in jovial June, How sweet the merry linnet's tune, How blithe the blackbird's lay ! The wild buck bells from ferny brake, The coot dives merry on the lake, The saddest heart might pleasure take To see all nature gay.
Page 50 - THE GENERAL APPEARANCE of Decorated buildings is at once simple and magnificent; simple from the small number of parts, and magnificent from the size of the windows, and the easy flow of the lines of tracery. In the interior of large buildings we find great breadth, and an enlargement of the clerestory windows, with a corresponding diminution of the triforium, which is now rather a part of the clerestory opening, than a distinct member of the division. The roofing from the increased richness of the...
Page 158 - ... smaller one within. On two sides is a steep ravine, on the others the outer wall has a kind of ditch, but very shallow. The original chief entrance, still existing, is by an external flight of steps, which had a covered roof to the upper story, and so far partakes of the features of the earlier houses'.
Page 158 - Halle," as was also its dependent manor*. It is indeed only a border house carefully fortified. " The general plan is a long irregular line with two rather extensive enclosures or courts formed by walls, besides one smaller one within. On two sides is a steep ravine, on the others the outer wall has a kind of ditch but very shallow. The original chief entrance is yet by an external flight of steps, which had a covered roof to the upper story, and so far partaking of the features of the earlier...
Page 15 - Huxley has suggested on palseontological grounds that a land connexion existed in this region (or rather between Abyssinia and India) during the Miocene epoch. From '.what has been said above it will be seen that I infer its existence from a far earlier date.* With regard to its depression, the only present evidence relates to its northern extremity, and shows that it was in this region, later than the great trap-flows of the Dakhan.
Page 135 - Generally there was a thick partition wall running down the centre of the keep, in which was situated the shaft of the castle well.
Page 24 - GLOUCESTER. years this little building was hidden under factories and stables, with the bases of its walls six feet below the surface of the soil, the nave being...
Page 37 - Rutland, or round-headed arches on one side of the nave and pointed arches on the other, as at Barnack Church, Northants, and Canford, Dorset.
Page 5 - Photography is hardly mentioned, the book may, perhaps, bo of use to students of Architecture, even should they not be photographers...

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