This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ... to the conclusion that this colouring, even when mistakes had been made, was a great and real improvement. The best of the houses, called after its owner the Wittekind house, has fortunately been treated with perfect taste, and it is this, not the Butchers House with its enormous single gable, which we thought the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ... to the conclusion that this colouring, even when mistakes had been made, was a great and real improvement. The best of the houses, called after its owner the Wittekind house, has fortunately been treated with perfect taste, and it is this, not the Butchers House with its enormous single gable, which we thought the finest house in the town. Its extended and yet minute ornament makes it unsuitable for an illustration to fit these pages, but here is a sketch of another, the so-called Kaiserhaus, because the row of statues along the front represents the Roman Emperors. But this house is altogether Renaissance, whereas the general character of the buildings is rather German house-Gothic. The pattern and inscriptions, which are all carved along the oak beams in the fronts of the houses, often repeat themselves--rows of fan pattern, the four cardinal virtues (with their names), Fortitude working a broken pillar, Temperance pouring out water, &c, the Five Senses, and such other subjects. The dates are almost all sixteenth or early seventeenth centuries. Unfortunately for our purpose Hildesheim is a thriving place, and a large new quarter is rapidly springing up, where great new Gothic and Rococo houses excite the admiration of the inhabitants, most of whom are only now learning that antiquity is a source of distinction, and may even be a source of wealth. The new suburbs are remarkable for their pretty gardens, in which we saw fine standard roses, white lilies, carnations and many other shrubs and creepers flowering in splendid profusion. But this we can see at home. CHAPTER VIII. Marburg. had determined to look at some old University towns upon our way, and had thought of stopping at Gottingen. Unfortunately, when we arrived at the station, we found a large n...
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