... had constructed a stately bridge, that Elizabeth might enter the castle by a path hitherto untrodden, instead of the usual entrance to the northward, over which he had erected a gate-house or barbican, which still exists, and is equal in extent and... American Illustrated Magazine - Page 5201881Full view - About this book
| 1821 - 504 pages
...barbican, which still exists, and is equal in extent and superior in architecture, to the baronial castle of many a northern chief. Beyond the lake lay an extensive...towers of the castle were seen to rise in majesty and beauty. We cannot but add, that of this lordly palace, where princes feasted and heroes fought, now... | |
| Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1821 - 340 pages
...barbican, which still exists, and is equal in extent, and superior in architecture, to the baronial castle of many a northern chief. ^ Beyond the lake lay an...towers of the castle were seen to rise in majesty and beauty. We cannot but add, that of this lordly palace, where princes feasted and heroes fought, now... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1821 - 414 pages
...barbican, which still exists , and is equal in extent and superior in archi iecture, to the baronial castle of many a northern chief. Beyond the lake lay an extensive...towers of the castle were seen to rise in majesty and beauty. We cannot but add , that of this lordly palace , where princes feasted and J heroes fought... | |
| Walter Scott - 1821 - 608 pages
...barbican, which still exists, and is equal in extent and superior in architecture, to the baronial castle of many a northern chief. Beyond the lake lay an extensive...roes, and every species of game, and abounding with the lofty trees, from amongst which the extended front and massive towers of the casth* u».re seen... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1821 - 352 pages
...barbican, which still exists, and is equal in extent and superior in architecture, to the baronial castle of many a northern chief. . 'Beyond the lake lay an extensive chase, fujl of red deer, fallow deer, roes, and every species of game, and abounding with lofty trees, from... | |
| Walter Scott - 1824 - 434 pages
...barbican, which still exists, and is equal in extent, and superior in architecture, to the baronial castle of many a northern chief. Beyond the lake lay an extensive...towers of the castle were seen to rise in majesty and beauty. We cannot but add, that of this lordly palace, where princes feasted and heroes fought, now... | |
| William Thomas Moncrieff - Health resorts - 1824 - 396 pages
...barbican, which still exists, and is equal in extent and superior in architecture, to the baronial Castle of many a northern chief. " Beyond the lake lay an...towers of the Castle were seen to rise in majesty and beauty. We cannot but add, that of this lordly palace, where princes feasted and herpes fought, now... | |
| 1833 - 310 pages
...that Elizabeth might enter the castle by a path hitherto untrodden, instead of the usual entrance. " Beyond the lake lay an extensive chase, full of red...towers of the castle were seen to rise in majesty and beauty. Of this lordly palace, where princes feasted, and heroes fought, now in the bloody earnest... | |
| Walter Scott - 1836 - 564 pages
...barbican, which still exists, and is equal in extent and superior in architecture, to the baronial castle of many a northern chief. Beyond the lake lay an extensive...amongst which the extended front and massive towers ofc the castle were seen" to rise in majesty and beauty. We cannot but add, that of this lordly palace,... | |
| 1840 - 440 pages
...daily. The castle was a splendid and gigantic structure, standing in the midst of an extensive park, full of red deer, fallow deer, roes, and every species of game, and abounding with lofty trees. But of this lordly palace, where princes feasted and heroes fought, all is now desolate. During the... | |
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