... gloomy arches, you come to the hall and staircase, which it is impossible to describe to you, as it is the most particular and chief beauty of the castle. Imagine the walls covered with (I call it paper, but it is really paper painted in perspective... The Letters of Horace Walpole: Earl of Orford - Стр. 337авторы: Horace Walpole - 1861Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| Horace Walpole - 1833 - Страниц: 488
...to represent) Gothic fretwork: the %htest Gothic balustrade to the staircase adorned with ante'opes, (our supporters) bearing shields ; lean windows fattened...rich saints in painted glass, and a vestibule open Wl 'h three arches on the landing-place, and niches full of tr ophies of old coats of mail, Indian... | |
| Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1860 - Страниц: 702
...which he thus describes : 'A vestibule opens, with three arches, on the landingplace, and discloses niches full of trophies, of old coats of mail, Indian shields made of rhinoceros-hides, broad-swords, quivers, longbows, arrows, and spears ; all supposed to have been taken... | |
| 1834 - Страниц: 724
...paper, but it really is paper painted in perspective, to represent) Gothic fretwork ; the lightest Gothic balustrade to the staircase adorned with Antelopes...trophies of old coats of mail, Indian shields made of rhinoceros hides, broadswords, quivers, long-bows, arrows, and spears — all tuppoted to be taken... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1840 - Страниц: 542
...it paper, but it is really paper painted in perspective to represent) Gothic fretwork: the lightest Gothic balustrade to the staircase, adorned with antelopes...glass, and a vestibule open with three arches on the landing -place, and niches full of trophies of old coats of mail, Indian shields made of rhinoceros's... | |
| 1842 - Страниц: 756
...it paper, but it is really paper painted in perspective, to represent) Gothic fretwork, the lightest Gothic balustrade to the staircase, adorned with antelopes,...glass, and a vestibule open with three arches, on the landing place, and niches full of trophies of old coats of mail, India shields made of rhinoceros hides,... | |
| 1842 - Страниц: 1212
...it paper, but it is really paper painted in perspective, to represeat) Gothic fretwork, the lightest Gothic balustrade to the staircase, adorned with antelopes,...in painted glass, and a vestibule open with three arrhes, on the landing place, and niches full of trophies of old coats of mail, India shields made... | |
| William Harrison Ainsworth - 1842 - Страниц: 392
...curious collection, meets the view, which Walpole called his " Armory ;" and thus describes : — " A vestibule open with three arches on the landing-place,...trophies of old coats of mail, Indian shields, made of rhinoceros' hides, broadswords, quivers, long-bows, arrows, and spears ; all supposed to have been... | |
| Horace Walpole, George Henry Robins - 1842 - Страниц: 314
...curious collection, meets the view, which Walpole called his ' Armoury ;' and thus describes : — ' A vestibule open with three arches on the landing-place,...trophies of old Coats of mail, Indian shields, made of rhinoceros' hides ; broad-swords, quivers, long-bows, arrows, and spears ; all supposed to have X1.... | |
| Eliot Warburton - 1851 - Страниц: 600
...it paper, but it is really paper painted in perspective, to represent Gothic fretwork; the lightest Gothic balustrade to the staircase, adorned with antelopes...trophies of old coats of mail, Indian shields made of rhinoceros' hides, broadswords, quivers, long-bows, arrows, and spears—all supposed to be taken by... | |
| Mark Twain - 1866 - Страниц: 852
...and which he thus describes : " A vestibule opens with three arches on the landing-place, disclosing niches full of trophies, of old coats of mail, Indian shields, made of the hide of the rhinoceros, broad-swords, quivers, long-bows, arrows and spears, all supposed to have... | |
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