These sculptured animals may be merely another expression of symbols of superstition, and if so are far more pleasing than some of the hideous and monstrous gargoyles ofttimes seen.
It will give a wonderful and whimsical conception of those weird gargoyles and devils, which have only to be seen to awaken a new interest in what this great writer has put forth.
At Pompeii large numbers of terra-cotta gargoyles have been found which were modelled in the shape of various animals.
It may be just as well that builders and bricklayers do not gratuitously attach gargoyles to our smaller residential villas.
I know not why these two absurd creatures tangled themselves up so much in my train of thought, like dragons in an illuminated text; or ramped like gargoyles on either side of the gateway of my adventure.
In real life there are no creatures like the gargoyles, but the important thing is that the gargoyles really could exist.
I know of no better examples of this truth than the gargoyles which one sees in Gothic architecture in Europe.
And here is the temple, with roof of blue-painted copper tiles, and tilted eaves and gargoyles and dragons, all weather-stained to one neutral tone.
I pass on and climb more steps to a second gate with similar gargoyles and swarming of dragons, and enter a court where graceful votive lanterns of stone stand like monuments.
The tendency is not confined to his poetry; readers of his romances will remember the gargoyles of Notre-Dame and the cannon which got loose in the hold of the Claymore and became 'une bête surnaturelle.
There are gargoyles over the entrance aside, with their mouths open to express astonishment.
If buildings like Ramoth church could in some plastic way assimilate their communicants, what gargoyles would be about the cornices, what wall paintings of patient saints, mystical and realistic.
The significance of the gargoyles on the churches built on the foundations of pagan temples may be especially observed at York, where the forms of various animals well known to Indo-Germanic mythology appear.
Gargoyles extended their grin over the finest architecture, cornices coiled to serpents, the very words of speakers started out of their conventional sense into images that tripped my attention.
Why these rotten old gargoyles with their noses rubbed off--you'll soon know them all by heart, be able to write a book about them, and all that sort of thing.
The unbreeched artist of four summers never tired of scrutinizing the statues, monsters, gargoyles and other outer ornamentations, while the story of the pious architect Erwin and of his inspirer, Sabine, was equally dear.
An excellent conception, well carried out, is in a mask which is one of a series of late carvings alternating with the gargoyles of Ewelme.
One of the best series of modern antiques of this kind is a set of gargoyles at St. Nicholas's, Abingdon, executed about 1881, of which I think it worth while to append a warning sample.
I preferred Pierrefonds, with its gargoylesand its hard, carved chairs.
We were spared no details, you may be sure, from the smallest of gargoyles to the biggest of chimneys.
You don’t suppose the gargoylescould have eaten her?
Everything was just as they had left it, the parrot still asleep and hanging up like a bat by his claws, and the gargoyles both dozing, one under the Wizard’s great chair and the other upon it, each with one eye open.
The gargoyles were driven off to a far corner where they were tied up in disgrace, and Polly, minus her tail feathers, was shut up in her cage, squawking and protesting every step of the way.
The gargoyles came hurrying down to meet him, and it was a very good thing that he carried a light, for had they caught him alone in the darkness, they would no doubt have made a meal of him.
Pushing them roughly aside, he dove into his laboratory and after one look around, sank upon a chair with a groan that the gargoyles heard as they crouched against the door in the darkness outside, and to which they replied with sharp growls.
The poll parrot was perched on the back of the seat, while much to Sally’s dismay the ugly heads of the twogargoyles appeared poking up from among the fur robes.
He has left the gargoylesoutside the door and I can hear them scratching and fussing around.
This greatly displeased the gargoyles for by this time they had discovered Bedelia, and were quite willing to lose the parrot if they might get at her.
Nobody heeding her, however, she proceeded to devote her attention to the parrot, the gargoyles having been left outside in the sleigh.
Hearing the familiar voice, the gargoyles began to scratch and snarl at the door.
While the gargoyles that Sally had at once perceived with great astonishment upon entering the hall, frisked about their master’s chair.
Immediately both the gargoyles gave chase, but Polly, far from retreating, turned boldly to face her tormentors.
He had those imps of gargoyles to help him,” replied the little bear.
Illustration: SOUTH FRONT OF NOTRE-DAME DE L'ÉPINE] Walk round the exterior of the church in order to examine the succession of gargoyles projecting from the buttresses.
This was especially the case in churches and ecclesiastical structures generally, in which the gargoyles presented a perfect rogues' gallery of local heretics and controversialists.
Sometimes when a new dean and chapter were installed the old gargoyles were removed and others substituted having a closer relation to the private animosities of the new incumbents.
There were griffins which had the air of laughing, gargoyles which one fancied one heard yelping, salamanders which puffed at the fire, tarasques* which sneezed in the smoke.
Houses and small shops are built up against it between the buttresses in a familiar, almost confidential manner, and on the south side, the row ofgargoyles have an almost humorous appearance.
From the central tower, gargoyles grin above the elaborately carved buttresses and finials in remarkable contrast to the jerry-built addition.
The whole of the exterior is covered with rich carving, crocketed finials, innumerable gargoyles and the usual enriched mouldings of Gothic architecture.
A manuscript of the XIII century relates that the original gargoyles were removed when a bridegroom (a money-lender) about to enter the church was killed by the fall of a protruding image that represented a man gripping a money bag.
The gargoyles that alternate with some ancient superbly cut panels of foliage across the west front, date only from 1881, and, as usual with restorations, the grotesque element has been overemphasized.
Like alien images, gargoyles protrude forlornly from the red brick walls, so inconsistent is brick with the true Gothic spirit.
Viollet-le-Duc had an English sculptor, George Frampton, make the gargoyles and grotesques of Notre Dame, since the Revolution wrecked most of the exterior sculpture.
Champagne's special aptitude for sculpture appeared in the XIII-century gargoyles of St. Urbain's church, each of which was almost a complete figure.
The Gargoyles seemed to realize this, for they sent a few of their band time after time to attack the strangers and draw the fire from the little man's revolvers.
These preparations had not consumed a great deal of time, but the sleeping Gargoyles were beginning to wake up and move around, and soon some of them would be hunting for their missing wings.
If the Gargoyles can unhook the wings then the power to fly lies in the wings themselves, and not in the wooden bodies of the people who wear them.
The Gargoyles roughly pushed them into the opening, where there was a platform, and then flew away and left them.
If any of the Gargoyles act badly, and have to be put in jail, they are brought here and their wings unhooked and taken away from them until they promise to be good.
What the Gargoylesmost dread is a noise," said the man's voice.
Looking out, they could see into some of the houses near them, where there were open windows in abundance, and were able to mark the forms of the wooden Gargoylesmoving about in their dwellings.
The Gargoyles had backed away a distance when they heard the sound of talking, for although our friends had spoken in low tones their words seemed loud in the silence surrounding them.
Perceiving this, as well as the fact that there were no more of the awful "bangs" to come from the revolvers, the Gargoyles advanced in a swarm as thick as bees, so that the air was filled with them.
The top of that mountain is lost in the clouds, and when you reach it you will be in the awful Land of Naught, where the Gargoyles live.
Probably the Gargoyles are still busy trying to put out the fire," returned the Wizard.
Zeb ran and picked up one of the Gargoyles that lay nearest to him.
There is a good deal of philosophy behind a laugh, and we put our gargoyles on the outside of our churches.
We are fashioned and moulded by them as plaster of Paris is fashioned and moulded into angels or gargoyles by the deft hand of the sculptor.
Twenty minutes later I got down opposite my old place with thegargoyles and terra-cotta ornaments.
The three gargoyles below have been renewed, and none of the gargoyles on choir or transepts are earlier, perhaps, than the Decorated period.
Various gargoyles project from the uppermost string, which on the east side is not broken by the central pilaster.
The gargoyles are of course Decorated, and so is the string-course itself, eastwards at any rate of the second gargoyle on the north wall, for here one of the mouldings has a fillet upon it.
Various gargoyles project from the string-course, which rises to pass over the east window.
The clearstorey resembles that of the transept, but the corbel table is surmounted here by a slope, on which rest two large gargoyles (renewed), and instead of a Decorated battlement there is a plain coping.
The west façade, facing the Mercado, has a double row of square-topped Gothic windows, above which is a traceried gallery running round the entire building with gargoyles and a frieze of heads below the embattled parapet.
It is in three stages, from the topmost of which huge gargoyles of all sorts of devils and monsters rear their ugly heads.
Curious grotesque gargoylesare seen, and amongst them some strange-looking bears.
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