| Arthur Collins - Baronetage - 1741 - 660 pages
...other of the rooms were well adorn'd with mouldings and fret-work ; and fome marble clavils were fo delicately fine, that they would reflect an object true and lively from a great diftance. In fhort, the number of the apartments of the whole, may be collefted hence, if report be... | |
| John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1803 - 716 pages
...the dining-room; and many other of the rooms were well adorned with mouldings and fret-work ; some of whose marble clavils were so delicately fine, that...approaching funerals." These walls arc composed of shite, and are going rapidly to decay. The grounds surrounding the castle, consist of very steep eminences;... | |
| George Alexander Cooke - Devon (England) - 1817 - 346 pages
...dining-room ; and many other of the rooms were well adorned with mouldings and fret- work ; some of whose marble clavils were so delicately fine, that...ruins ; there being nothing standing but a few broken walls*, which seem to mourn their own approaching funerals." These walls are composed of slate, and... | |
| Sir Richard Phillips - Great Britain - 1825 - 426 pages
...dining-room ; and many other of the rooms were well adorned with mouldings and fret-w»rk; some of whose marble clavils were so delicately fine, that...all this glory lyeth in the dust, buried in its own ruini ; there being nothing standing but a few broken walls, which seem to mourn their own approaching... | |
| Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 820 pages
...well adorned with mouldings and fret-wurk ; some of whose marble clavils were so delicately fine, tbat 2 Fuller. Worthies of Devon. Boil this restoring root in generous wine, And set beside the door the «ickly... | |
| Thomas Dugdale - Chronology, Historical - 1830 - 296 pages
...the dining-room; and many other of the rooms were well adorned with mouldings and fret-work; some of whose marble clavils were so delicately fine, that...ruins; there being nothing standing but a few broken walls, which seem to mourn their own approaching funerals." The walls are formed of slate, and appear... | |
| Thomas Dugdale - 1830 - 412 pages
...dining-room ; and many other of the rooms were well adorned with mouldings and fret-work ; some of whose marble clavils were so delicately fine, that...ruins ; there being nothing standing but a few broken walls, which seem to mourn their own approaching funerals." The walls are formed of slate, and appear... | |
| A F. Kendall - 1830 - 704 pages
...the Seymours; but, says a writer on this subject, " it is now demolished, and all this glory lieth in the dust, buried in its own ruins; there being nothing standing but a few broken walls, which seem to mourn their own approaching funeral." The grounds which surround this edifice... | |
| E. Croydon - Torquay (England) - 1854 - 312 pages
...great cost and value. Many other of the rooms were well adorned with mouldings and fret-work, some of whose marble clavils were so delicately fine, that...reflect an object true and lively from a great distance. In short, the number of apartments of the whole may be collected hence, if report be true ; that it... | |
| Edward Cockrem - Torquay (England) - 1856 - 280 pages
...great cost and value ; many other of the rooma were well adorned with moldings and fret-work, some of whose marble clavils were so delicately fine that...reflect an object true and lively from a great distance. In short, the number of the apartments of the whole may be collected hence, if report be true, that... | |
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