 Imagine the walls covered with (I call it paper, but it is really paper painted in perspective to represent) Gothic fretwork: the lightest Gothic balustrade to the staircase, adorned with antelopes (our supporters) bearing shields ; lean windows fattened...  Ainsworth's Magazine - Pàgina 100editat per - 1842Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1833 - 452 pàgines
...antelopes (our supporters) bearing shields ; lean windows fattened with rich saints in painted glass, and a vestibule open with three arches on the landing-place,...trophies of old coats of mail, Indian shields made of rhinoceros's hides, broadswords, quivers, long bows, arrows, and spears — all supposed to be taken... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1860 - 700 pàgines
...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 - 754 pàgines
...Antelopes (our supporters) , bearing shields ; lean windows fattened with rich saints in painted glass, and a vestibule open with three arches on the landing-place...long-bows, arrows, and spears — all supposed to be taken by Sir Terry Robsart in the Holy Wars. But as none of this regards the enclosed drawing, I... | |
 | 1834 - 724 pàgines
...Antelopes (our supporters), bearing shields; lean windows fattened with rich saints in painted glass, and a vestibule open with three arches on the landing-place...broadswords, quivers, long-bows, arrows, and spears — all tuppoted to be taken by Sir Terry Robsart in the Holy Wars. But as none of this regards the enclosed... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1840 - 542 pàgines
...fattened with rich saints in painted 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 hides, broadswords, quivers, long bows, arrows, and spears — all supposed to be taken... | |
 | Twickenham Strawberry Hill - 1842 - 284 pàgines
...the Library, the small, but curious collection, meets the view, which Walpole called his ' Armoury ;' and thus describes : — ' A vestibule open with three...Sir Terry Robsart (an ancestor), in the Holy Wars.' Hence we find in a Diche, on the staircase, the armour of Francis the First, of steel-gilt, and covered... | |
 | Horace Walpole, George Henry Robins - 1842 - 314 pàgines
...the Library, the small, bnt curious collection, meets the view, which Walpole called his ' Armoury ;' and thus describes : — ' A vestibule open with three...long-bows, arrows, and spears ; all supposed to have X1. been taken by Sir Terry Robsart (an ancestor), in the Holy Wars.' Hence we find in a niche, on... | |
 | Twickenham Strawberry Hill - 1842 - 292 pàgines
...the Library, the small, but curious collection, meets the view, which Walpole called his ' Armoury ;' and thus describes : — ' A vestibule open with three...long-bows, arrows, and spears ; all supposed to have XI. been taken by Sir Terry Robsart (an ancestor), in the Holy Wars.' Hence we find in a niche, on... | |
 | Twickenham Strawberry Hill - 1842 - 294 pàgines
...the Library, the small, but curious collection, meets the view, which Walpole called his ' Armoury ;' and thus describes : — ' A vestibule open with three...of mail, Indian shields, made of rhinoceros' hides; broad- swords, quivers, long-bows, arrows, and spears; all supposed to have STRAWBERRY HILL. been taken... | |
 | 1842 - 756 pàgines
...open with three arches, on the landing place, and niches full of trophies of old coats of mail, India shields made of rhinoceros hides, broad-swords, quivers,...long-bows, arrows, and spears, — all supposed to be taken by Sir Terry Robsart,* in the holy wars. But as none of this regards the enclosed drawing,... | |
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