 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1836 - 580 pages
...made a greater impression on me than all the other castles I have ever seen, put together. It comhines the bold originality of the middle ages with the highest pitch of splendor and comfort which our times can reach. It is not an empty, tedious monotonous repetition of... | |
 | Philip Alexander Prince - World history - 1838 - 702 pages
...far exceeded nay expectations, and made a greater impression on me than all the other castles I had seen, put together. It combines the bold originality...ages with the highest pitch of splendour and comfort of our own times. It is not a monotonous repetition of the same sort of rooms ; but every staircase,... | |
 | English literature - 1847 - 446 pages
...so many stately monuments of its frowning glory. " Windsor," says the acute critic, " combines the originality of the middle ages with the highest pitch...surprising, peculiar ; in one word, poetical. ... In Windsor, England's history — so rich with recollections — suddenly stands before my eyes. There... | |
 | 1847 - 436 pages
...so many stately monuments of its frowning glory. " Windsor," says the acute critic, " combines the originality of the middle ages with the highest pitch...gallery, every room, every hall, nay, every window, is diflferent, surprising, peculiar ; in one word, poetical. ... In Windsor, England's history — so... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 1847 - 862 pages
...so many stately monuments of its frowning glory. " Windsor," says the acute critic, " combines the originality of the middle ages with the highest pitch...splendour and comfort which our times can reach. It u not an empty, tedious, monotonous repetition of the same sort of rooms over and over again; but every... | |
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... in 1835, acknowledged Windsor to have made a greater impression on him than all the other castles he had ever seen put together. This is high praise from a native of Germany, where feudalism has left so many stately monuments of its frowning glory.... 