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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
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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
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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.
Genius Loci: the Spirits of Place Heather McDougal 2007
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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
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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
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Well then know that I have lately employed myself in directing the gothick library to be finished, which our ever regretted Mrs. Montford began.
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-- The cathedral is very beautiful, the pillars alternately gothick and
Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 James Boswell 1767
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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
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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.
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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.
fbharjo commented on the word gothick
variant of the spelling of "gothic" which has much more meaning and appeal
February 25, 2007
bilby commented on the word gothick
Not convinced.
September 9, 2008