Romantic castles and palaces, as seen and described by famous writers; (1901)
Singleton, Esther, ed. and tr · New York, Dodd, Mead & Co. · leaf 394
sses, and intellectual resources of a busy,scientific, refined, and luxurious age. Such is the entirecharacter of Lambton Castle. You see before you, indeed,Gothic towers and battlements, but around them spreadlawns such only as England and the England of our dayknows. You approach it by roads not… … 2; ■J J <■-J :?; o X -1 J •r^-Y. ^^i^ :( LAMBTON CASTLE 305 pillars, gorgeous vases, soft carpets of richest dyes andsofter beds,curtained into silken privacy; and all the name-less and numberless little articles and marks of taste, which,to a true old castle-dweller, would form a wilderness…
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