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  • After Capability Brown died, his naturalistic style was replaced by the Romantic version of the same thing: gothick ruins, hermitages, and ivy-covered grottos were all the rage.

    Archive 2007-07-01 Heather McDougal 2007

  • But I got waylaid at Pythouse where I got distracted by a ruined gothick chapel and dovecote in the woods.

    Archive 2007-09-01 Peter Ashley 2007

  • After Capability Brown died, his naturalistic style was replaced by the Romantic version of the same thing: gothick ruins, hermitages, and ivy-covered grottos were all the rage.

    Genius Loci: the Spirits of Place Heather McDougal 2007

  • But I got waylaid at Pythouse where I got distracted by a ruined gothick chapel and dovecote in the woods.

    Pythouse Straw Girl Peter Ashley 2007

  • Walpole, and his admiration for "the gothick," expressed in the pointed windows and sham battlements of his house at Strawberry hill, inspired his romance, _The Castle of Otranto_ (1764), which began the romantic movement in fiction.

    The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration William Hunt 1886

  • Well then know that I have lately employed myself in directing the gothick library to be finished, which our ever regretted Mrs. Montford began.

    Agnes De-Courci: a Domestic Tale 1789

  • -- The cathedral is very beautiful, the pillars alternately gothick and

    Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 James Boswell 1767

  • Denny replaced Judy Dyble in Fairport Convention in early 1968; without her, The Strawbs had a convincing crack at English folk-rock, culminating in the gothick From The Witchwood and visionary prog of Grave New World.

    Expecting Rain 2010

  • If you were to go out out to a dinner or a ladylike still picnic after the recreation park, that is a operating to and get gothick novel into the situation.

    Article directories Celibataire Urbaine 2010

  • If you were to go out out to a dinner or a ladylike still picnic after the recreation park, that is a operating to and get gothick novel into the situation.

    Article directories Celibataire Urbaine 2010

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  • variant of the spelling of "gothic" which has much more meaning and appeal

    February 25, 2007

  • Not convinced.

    September 9, 2008