 | 1829 - Liczba stron: 696
...is properly called furniture, nothing but a . small writing-table in the centre, a plain arm-chair covered with black leather — a very comfortable...reached by a hanging stair of carved oak in one corner. There are only two portraits, an original of the beautiful and melancholy head of Claverhouse, and... | |
 | 1833 - Liczba stron: 636
...company. On hoth sides of the fire-place are hooks of reference ; hut except these there are no hooks, save the contents of a light gallery which runs round three sides of the room, and is reached hy a hanging stair of carved oak in one corner. The gallery is much in the style of the Elys£e or... | |
 | 1828 - Liczba stron: 746
...no place for company. On either side of the fireplace there are shelves filled with ‘duodecirnos and books of reference, chiefly, of course, folios;...carved oak in one corner. You have been both at the Elisée Bourbon ¿snd Malmaison, and remember the library atone or other of those places, I forget... | |
 | 1829 - Liczba stron: 762
...what is properly called furniture nothing but a small writing-table in the centre, a plain arm-chair covered with black leather — a very comfortable...carved oak in one corner. You have been both at the Elisée Bourbon and Malmaison, and remember the library at one or other of those places, I forget which... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - Liczba stron: 434
...symptoms that this is no place for company. On either side of the fire-place there are shelves filled with books of reference, chiefly, of course, folios ; but...reached by a hanging stair of carved oak in one corner. There are only two portraits — an original of the beautiful and melancholy head of Claverhouse (Bonny... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - Liczba stron: 428
...symptoms that this is no place for company. On either side of the fire-place there are shelves filled with books of reference, chiefly, of course, folios ; but...reached by a hanging stair of carved oak in one corner. There are only two portraits — an original of the beautiful and melancholy head of Claverhouse (Bonny... | |
 | 1841 - Liczba stron: 240
...the house of Robroyston, which sheltered Sir William Wallace), plain symptoms that this is noplace for company. On either side of the fireplace there...reached by a hanging stair of carved oak in one corner, There are only two portraits, an original of the beautiful and melancholy head of Claverhouse, and... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1829 - Liczba stron: 618
...there are shelves filled with duodecimos and books of reference, chief];, of course, folios; but cicept these, there are no books save the contents of a light...carved oak in one corner. You have been both at the Elisée Bourbon and Malmaison, and remember the library at one or other of those places, I forget which;... | |
 | Edward Edwards - 1864 - Liczba stron: 546
...fireplace there are shelves filled with books of reference, chiefly, of course, folios. ... A light gallery runs round three sides of the room, and is reached by a hanging stair of carved oak in one corner. There are only two portraits — an original of the beautiful and melancholy head of Claverhouse, and... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1882 - Liczba stron: 434
...symptoms that this is no place for company. On either side of the fire-place there are shelves filled with books of reference, chiefly, of course, folios ; but...reached by a hanging stair of carved oak in one corner There are only two portraits — an original of the beautiful and melancholy head of Claverhouse (Bonny... | |
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On either side of the fire-place there are shelves filled with books of reference, chiefly, of course, folios ; but except these, there are no books save the contents of a light gallery which runs round three sides of the room, and is reached by a hanging... 
