| John Britton - 1814 - 354 pages
...but more particularly at Salisbury and at Malmsbury18: for there he erected extensive edifices, and at vast cost, and with surpassing beauty: the courses...deceives the eye, and leads it to imagine that the whole wall is composed of a single block. He built anew the church of Salisbury, and beautified it... | |
| John Britton - Bishops - 1814 - 202 pages
...but more particularly at Salisbury and at Malmsbury18: for there he erected extensive edifices, and at vast cost, and with surpassing beauty: the courses...deceives the eye, and leads it to imagine that the whole wall is composed of a single block. He built anew the church of Salisbury, and beautified it... | |
| Early English newspapers - 1815 - 712 pages
...but more particularly at Salisbury and at Maltmbury * : for there be erected extensive edifices, and at vast cost, and with surpassing beauty : the courses...deceives the eye, and leads it to imagine that the whole wall is composed of a single block. He built anew the Qturck of .•>'«// .»«///, anil beautified... | |
| James Norris Brewer - 1801 - 1208 pages
...Malmsbury, Denzes, Sherborne, and Santm. The above historian describes these buildings as being " erected at vast cost, and with surpassing beauty ; the courses...deceives the eye, and leads it to imagine that the whola vail is composed of a single block." In a comment on this passage, presented in Mr. Britton's... | |
| James Norris Brewer - Architecture - 1818 - 734 pages
...historian describes these buildings as being " erected at vast cost, and with surpass ing beauty j the courses of stone being so correctly laid, that...deceives the eye, and leads it to imagine that the whole wall is composed of a single block." In a comment on this passage, presented in Mr. Britton's... | |
| William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - Great Britain - 1838 - 826 pages
...and the numerous buildings— "framed," ns tlie admiring chronicler relates, "with emir-pa uf stone, so correctly laid, that the joint deceives the eye, and leads it to imagine it is all one block,"* — nmlimnied with age, and uninjured by long exposure to tlie weather, must... | |
| Hannah Lawrance - Great Britain - 1838 - 474 pages
...the numerous buildings — " framed," as the admiring chronicler relates, " with courses of stone, so correctly laid that the joint deceives the eye, and leads it to imagine it is all one block,"* — undiinmed with age, and uninjured by long exposure to the weather, must... | |
| John Henry Parker - Architecture - 1840 - 314 pages
...Malmesbury. For there he erected extensive edifices, at vast cost, and with surpassing beauty : (he courses of stone being so correctly laid, that the...deceives the eye, and leads it to imagine that the whole wall is composed of a single block. He built anew the church of Salisbury, and beautified it... | |
| John Henry Parker - Architecture - 1840 - 534 pages
...which may be seen in other places, but more particularly at Salisbury and at 3Jalmesbury. For there he erected extensive edifices, at vast cost, and with surpassing beauty : the dowries of stone being so correctly laid, that the joint deceives the eye, and leads it to imagine... | |
| American literature - 1865 - 820 pages
...by Norman architects at immense expense, " framed," as Malmesbury records, " with courses of stone, so correctly laid that the joint deceives the eye, and leads it to imagine it is all one block," the king, doubtless, looked around with pride on his votive abbey that Holy Innocents'... | |
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