em, and, in some points of view, to us still more interest-ing, are the ruins of abbeys and castles. I have named them together,though nothing can be more strongly contrasted than their two charac-ters. The abbey, built in some sequestered spot, and surrounded bywoods, announces religious calm and… … designed for ornament, not for defence. All the minute and detacheddecorations of its outside—the pinnacles, the open-work, the high andspacious windows divided into small compartments by the lightest par-titions, and enriched with all the refinements of Gothic sculpture—wereill adapted to defy…
Landscape gardening · Aesthetics
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