The English CastleC. Scribner's sons, 1936 - 120 pages |
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... ruins , their broken walls softened with dark veils of ivy ; while others , less aesthetic and more practical in their tastes , prefer to see walls and towers rising stark and grim , as fortresses should be , proud in their ruined ...
... ruins , their broken walls softened with dark veils of ivy ; while others , less aesthetic and more practical in their tastes , prefer to see walls and towers rising stark and grim , as fortresses should be , proud in their ruined ...
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... ruins of the domestic buildings within our castles , as at Bodiam ( 74 ) , but few noteworthy examples are to be seen . On the other hand , some castellans built really large chapels within their castles and sometimes founded in them ...
... ruins of the domestic buildings within our castles , as at Bodiam ( 74 ) , but few noteworthy examples are to be seen . On the other hand , some castellans built really large chapels within their castles and sometimes founded in them ...
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... ruins of such castles as remain to us it seems an almost hopeless task to try to conjure up the days that are gone from us , whose ancestors paced those courts and wall- tops , feasted in those empty halls and slept betimes in those ...
... ruins of such castles as remain to us it seems an almost hopeless task to try to conjure up the days that are gone from us , whose ancestors paced those courts and wall- tops , feasted in those empty halls and slept betimes in those ...
Contents
CASTLES OF EARTH | 3 |
GREAT STONE TOWERS | 23 |
LOFTY WALLS | 56 |
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