 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1894 - 602 pages
...build a citadel to protect a town, were processes with which England had long been familiar. . . . But for a private landowner to raise a private fortress...the tall, square, massive donjon of the Normans, a class of buildings whose grandest type is to be seen in the Conqueror's own Tower of London and in... | |
 | Edward Augustus Freeman - 1877 - 784 pages
...public works was one of the three immemorial obligations from which no Englishman could free himself.3 But for a private landowner to raise a private fortress...such a structure the English language had hitherto had no name. But now the tall, square, massive, donjon of the Normans, a class of buildings whose grandest... | |
 | Edward Augustus Freeman - 1877 - 758 pages
...public works was one of the three immemorial obligations from which no Englishman could free himself. 3 But for a private landowner to raise a private fortress...such a structure the English language had hitherto had no name. But now the tall, square, massive, donjon of the Normans, a class of buildings whose grandest... | |
 | John Kirby Hedges - 1881 - 422 pages
...public works was one of the three immemorial obligations from which no Englishman could free himself. But for a private landowner to raise a private fortress,...English language had hitherto contained no name." And Hodgson, in his " History of Northumberland," tells us that large and commodious buildings do not... | |
 | John Kirby Hedges - 1881 - 426 pages
...public works was one of the three immemorial obligations from which no Englishman could free himself. But for a private landowner to raise a private fortress,...English language had hitherto contained no name." And Hodgson, in his " History of Northumberland," tells us that large and commodious buildings do not... | |
 | 1890 - 516 pages
...himself, but for a private landowner to raise a private fortress was something to which Englishmen had been unaccustomed, and for such a structure the English language had hitherto contained no name." But so soon as the Conqueror had parcelled out the country among his followers, the tall square massive... | |
 | 1893 - 240 pages
...such necessary public works was an immemorial obligation from which no Englishman could free himself. But for a private landowner to raise a private fortress...his neighbours was something to which Englishmen had been unaccustomed, and tor such a structure the English language contained no name, and so they retained... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1894 - 612 pages
...build a citadel to protect a town, were processes with which England had long been familiar. . . . But for a private landowner to raise a private fortress...the tall, square, massive donjon of the Normans, a elass of buildings whose grandest type is to be seen in the Conqueror's own Tower of London and in... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1894 - 598 pages
...build a citadel to protect a town, were processes with which England had long been familiar. . . . But for a private landowner to raise a private fortress...the tall, square, massive donjon of the Normans, a class of buildings whose grandest type is to be seen in the Conqueror's own Tower of London and in... | |
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Normans, a class of buildings whose grandest type is to be seen in the Conqueror's own Tower of London and in the more enriched keep of Rochester, began, doubtless on a far humbler scale, to rear itself over the dwellings of Englishmen. 