. The baronial halls, picturesque edifices, and ancient churches of England. NAWO ETH, aworth is one of the few remaining Castles of the Borderrescued from the grasp of Time by the noble descendantsof its ancient lords. It is the property of the Earl ofCarlisle—the representative of centuries of Howards —who, according to Sir Walter Scott, deserves high praisefor the attention bestowed in maintaining the curious andvenerable pile in its former state. While, however, hisLordship has taken especial care to arrest the progress ofTime over the old walls, he has been wisely cautious to
. The baronial halls, picturesque edifices, and ancient churches of England. NAWO ETH, aworth is one of the few remaining Castles of the Borderrescued from the grasp of Time by the noble descendantsof its ancient lords. It is the property of the Earl ofCarlisle—the representative of centuries of Howards —who, according to Sir Walter Scott, deserves high praisefor the attention bestowed in maintaining the curious andvenerable pile in its former state. While, however, hisLordship has taken especial care to arrest the progress ofTime over the old walls, he has been wisely cautious toprevent repairs from being unseemly patches upon thehonoured face of hore antiquitie. Its condition is sufficiently dilapidated to carryinstant conviction of its age; but nothing out of keeping with the solemn dignity derivedfrom the weight of years is permitted to appear. To its early and existing conditionhis Lordship has himself made happy reference, in some descriptive lines to this—thefamous stronghold of generations of his ancestry: O Naworth ! monument of rudest times,When Science
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