Ruined Abbeys and Castles of Great Britain, Հատոր 1A.W. Bennett, 1862 - 228 էջ |
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Արդյունքներ 27–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
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... round it through the marshes which was of the colour of glass , - whence the name of the place became Glastonbury , or the city of glass . It was alfo called the Ifle of Avalon , from Aval the British name for an apple , being very ...
... round it through the marshes which was of the colour of glass , - whence the name of the place became Glastonbury , or the city of glass . It was alfo called the Ifle of Avalon , from Aval the British name for an apple , being very ...
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... walls remaining , and testifying by their round arches , and especially by the one richly ornamented receding portal , its Norman period . The portion which connected it with the portico which led to it 36 GLASTONBURY ABBEY .
... walls remaining , and testifying by their round arches , and especially by the one richly ornamented receding portal , its Norman period . The portion which connected it with the portico which led to it 36 GLASTONBURY ABBEY .
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... rounded into great pebbles by the sea . The wild and defolate aspect of the place ftrongly impress on the visitor the perils and perfecutions of those savage times , which drove the profeffors of the Christian faith to such a ftony ...
... rounded into great pebbles by the sea . The wild and defolate aspect of the place ftrongly impress on the visitor the perils and perfecutions of those savage times , which drove the profeffors of the Christian faith to such a ftony ...
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... round arches of the past Saxon and the pointed ones then first introduced . The pointed arches , too , are of differing characters ; fome are acutely lancet , others of a more obtuse fashion . The building is divided at every separate ...
... round arches of the past Saxon and the pointed ones then first introduced . The pointed arches , too , are of differing characters ; fome are acutely lancet , others of a more obtuse fashion . The building is divided at every separate ...
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... round , I ftood and gazed down over the town , and over the Wye circling round its base , and over the Gloucestershire fields and woods beyond . The man wheeled round too , blew a large hot breath from his puffed cheeks - I had tired ...
... round , I ftood and gazed down over the town , and over the Wye circling round its base , and over the Gloucestershire fields and woods beyond . The man wheeled round too , blew a large hot breath from his puffed cheeks - I had tired ...
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Ruined Abbeys and Castles of Great Britain, Հատոր 1 William Howitt,Mary Botham Howitt Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1862 |
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