Pleasure Excursions: as Guides for Making Day's Excursions on the Eastern Counties, South-Eastern [and Other] Railways1847 - Great Britain |
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... walls are hung with scarlet , and though we might have preferred a more crimson hue , for the sake of some of the pictures , the majority do not suffer from the brightness of the scarlet , and the general effect is one of great ...
... walls are hung with scarlet , and though we might have preferred a more crimson hue , for the sake of some of the pictures , the majority do not suffer from the brightness of the scarlet , and the general effect is one of great ...
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... walls , and we would fain hope that it will be preserved , not so much for its own sake , but as a memento that our barbarous ancestors preferred such decoration for the walls of the house of the Most High as they were able to give ...
... walls , and we would fain hope that it will be preserved , not so much for its own sake , but as a memento that our barbarous ancestors preferred such decoration for the walls of the house of the Most High as they were able to give ...
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... walls , which yield a delightful grassy terrace , are close to the town . The knoll on the south side , which we have already mentioned , is within the half - mile , and the church is within a furlong's distance , so that there need be ...
... walls , which yield a delightful grassy terrace , are close to the town . The knoll on the south side , which we have already mentioned , is within the half - mile , and the church is within a furlong's distance , so that there need be ...
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... walls . We may ascend into the council room ; it is an oak - panelled apartment , with an elaborate sculptured chimney - piece , transferred from Stoughton House , illustrating four species of the genus homo , the Sanguineus ...
... walls . We may ascend into the council room ; it is an oak - panelled apartment , with an elaborate sculptured chimney - piece , transferred from Stoughton House , illustrating four species of the genus homo , the Sanguineus ...
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... walls , is positively beautiful . The glow of the sun on the red brick walls is of a delicious orange colour , which no painter , except Mulready and Turner , has hitherto been bold enough to represent . The library , dining and meeting ...
... walls , is positively beautiful . The glow of the sun on the red brick walls is of a delicious orange colour , which no painter , except Mulready and Turner , has hitherto been bold enough to represent . The library , dining and meeting ...
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Page 5 - The lofty tower, with the grated door and porter's lodge beneath it, the retired ambulatory, the separate cells, the common refectory, the venerable church, the black flowing dress and the silver cross worn by the members, the conventual appellation of brother, with which they salute each other ; in short, the silence, the order, and the neatness, that here reign, serve to recall the idea of a monastery to those who have seen one, and will give no imperfect idea of such an establishment to those...
Page 7 - Others are in the horse-shoe form, of which the entrance into the north porch is the most antique specimen. In one place we have a curious triangular arch. The capitals and bases of the columns alternately vary in their form, as well as in their ornaments. The same circumstance is observable in the ribs of the arches, especially in the north and south aisles; some of them being plain, and others profusely embellished, and in different styles, even within the same arch.
Page 7 - ... 120 feet, and a large square tower over the intersection. It is entirely the work of De Blois, except the front and upper story of the west end, which are of a...
Page 7 - ... when she composed her hands to play and her voice to sing, it was joined with that sweetness of countenance that three harmonies concurred ; likewise, when she danced, her rare proportions varied themselves into all the graces that belong either to rest or motion.
Page 5 - They had also a pottage called mortrel, made of milk and wastelbred, a dish of flesh or fish, as the day should require, and a pittance for their dinner, likewise one dish for their supper. Besides these thirteen resident poor men, the foundation required that one hundred others, the most indigent that could be found in the city, but of good characters, should be provided every day with a loaf of bread, three quarts of small beer, and two messes for their dinner, in a hall appointed for this purpose,...