Romantic castles and palaces, as seen and described by famous writers; (1901)
Singleton, Esther, ed. and tr · New York, Dodd, Mead & Co. · leaf 94
easts of the earth ; or perhaps hunting-scenes and com-bats, where you see warriors dressed in armour and ter-rifying helmets, on horseback pursuing monsters andchimaeras. The most peculiar one, assuredly, is decoratedentirely with fans,—fans of all forms and of all colours,open, shut, and half… … < b Q< a: THE MIKADOS PALACE 6^ all, is that series of high pierced friezes that extendsaround all the ceilings; you think of generations of patientworkmen who have worn themselves out in chiselling suchdelicate, almost transparent, things, in such thicknesses ofwood: sometimes there are…
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