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Page 242
... Gothic architecture , and Gothic sculpture , which Scotland can boast . The stone , of which it is built , though it has resisted the weather for so many ages , retains perfect sharpness 242 NOTES TO CANTO FIRST .
... Gothic architecture , and Gothic sculpture , which Scotland can boast . The stone , of which it is built , though it has resisted the weather for so many ages , retains perfect sharpness 242 NOTES TO CANTO FIRST .
Page 251
... Gothic architecture , when in its purity , than the eastern window of Melrose Abbey . Sir James Hall of Dunglass , Bart . has , with great ingenuity and plausibi- lity , traced the Gothic order through its various forms , and seemingly ...
... Gothic architecture , when in its purity , than the eastern window of Melrose Abbey . Sir James Hall of Dunglass , Bart . has , with great ingenuity and plausibi- lity , traced the Gothic order through its various forms , and seemingly ...
Page 252
... Gothic windows is displayed in the meeting and interlacing of rods and hoops , affording an inexhaustible variety of beautiful forms of open work . This in- genious system is alluded to in the romance . Sir James Hall's Essay on Gothic ...
... Gothic windows is displayed in the meeting and interlacing of rods and hoops , affording an inexhaustible variety of beautiful forms of open work . This in- genious system is alluded to in the romance . Sir James Hall's Essay on Gothic ...
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... Gothic architecture . Among the profuse carving on the pillars and buttresses , the rose is fre- quently introduced , in allusion to the name , with which , how- ever , the flower has no connection ; the etymology being Ross- linnhe ...
... Gothic architecture . Among the profuse carving on the pillars and buttresses , the rose is fre- quently introduced , in allusion to the name , with which , how- ever , the flower has no connection ; the etymology being Ross- linnhe ...
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