 Flemish school ; those fronts, richly decorated with various ornaments, and terminating in roofs, the slope of which is concealed from the eye by windows and gables still more highly ornamented ; the whole comprising a general effect, which, from its...  The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott... - Side 2av Walter Scott - 1848Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Walter Scott - 1816 - 488 sider
...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 sider
...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 538 sider
...our borough towns afford few visible monuments of the high claims we set up to early civilization. Our neighbours, the English, are not much more fortunate...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 sider
...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 sider
...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1829 - 376 sider
...civilization. Our neighbours, the English, are not much more forVOL. v. 3 14 .THE FLEMINGS — HOUSES. tunate in this respect, unless we take into the account the...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... | |
 | 1838 - 582 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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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