The Castles and Abbeys of England, Volum 1Virtue, Spalding, and Company, 1842 - 352 pàgines |
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Pàgina xiv
... beauty and richness of its Archi - SARGENT . ENGRAVERS . PAGR HINCHLIFFE . 305 tecure IMPRESSION OF THE ABBEY SEAL , with the Wax and Ribbon attached , from the Original : } HERMAN . WALMESLEY . 306 THE ABBOT'S SEAL , with its ...
... beauty and richness of its Archi - SARGENT . ENGRAVERS . PAGR HINCHLIFFE . 305 tecure IMPRESSION OF THE ABBEY SEAL , with the Wax and Ribbon attached , from the Original : } HERMAN . WALMESLEY . 306 THE ABBOT'S SEAL , with its ...
Pàgina 5
... beauty , " and fresh honours decreed to the " brave . " It was in these halls that the " Christmas log , " flashing through the painted casement , announced the reign of hospitality , -when the " roast beef of Old England , " her nut ...
... beauty , " and fresh honours decreed to the " brave . " It was in these halls that the " Christmas log , " flashing through the painted casement , announced the reign of hospitality , -when the " roast beef of Old England , " her nut ...
Pàgina 29
... beauty of workmanship . Those under the bas - relief , in front of the Alfred Saloon , are of exquisite design . and finish . The Library here mentioned is an apartment of great magnificence ; it measures one hundred and seventeen feet ...
... beauty of workmanship . Those under the bas - relief , in front of the Alfred Saloon , are of exquisite design . and finish . The Library here mentioned is an apartment of great magnificence ; it measures one hundred and seventeen feet ...
Pàgina 30
... beauty of workmanship and delicacy of carving , enriched with fruit - foliage , which have seldom been surpassed . It is divided into several compartments for reading recesses , and communicates with the Alfred Saloon by two magnificent ...
... beauty of workmanship and delicacy of carving , enriched with fruit - foliage , which have seldom been surpassed . It is divided into several compartments for reading recesses , and communicates with the Alfred Saloon by two magnificent ...
Pàgina 33
... beauty and her chivalry , and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men . " The ball was opened by the Duke of Norfolk and the Marchioness of Stafford - late Duchess - Countess of Sutherland - followed by about fifty couples ...
... beauty and her chivalry , and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men . " The ball was opened by the Duke of Norfolk and the Marchioness of Stafford - late Duchess - Countess of Sutherland - followed by about fifty couples ...
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The Castles and Abbeys of England: From the National Records, Early ..., Volum 1 William Beattie Visualització completa - 1851 |
The Castles and Abbeys of England: From the National Records, Early ..., Volum 1 William Beattie Visualització completa - 1844 |
Frases i termes més freqüents
Abbot Albans Albini altar ancient antiquity appears arches architecture arms army Arundel Castle barons battle battle of Hastings beauty bishop building buried Carisbrooke Carisbrooke Castle Castle of Arundel Castle of Rochester century chapel chivalry choir Chronicle command court crown daughter death Despenser Duke of Gloucester Duke of Norfolk Earl Marshal Earl of Arundel Edward Eltham Eltham Palace enemy England English entrance erected favour feet Fitzalan fortress garrison gate Gloucester ground Hall Hist honour Howard hundred John Kenilworth King Henry king's knights lady land Leicester London Lord magnificent manor ment monarch monastery monks Netley Netley Abbey noble Norman ornaments palace possessions present Prince prison Queen reign Robert Rochester Castle Roger Montgomery roof royal SARGENT Saxon says scene shrine side siege solemn stone Surrey Tewkesbury Thomas tomb tower town transept walls Waltham Waltham Abbey William William de Albini
Passatges populars
Pàgina 117 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Pàgina 62 - Jockey of Norfolk, be not too bold, For Dickon thy master is bought and sold.
Pàgina 67 - Front, flank, and rear, the squadrons sweep To break the Scottish circle deep, That fought around their King. But yet, though thick the shafts as snow, Though charging knights like whirlwinds go. Though bill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring; The stubborn spear-men still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant that he fell.
Pàgina 232 - ... castle was, on the south and west sides, adorned and defended by a lake partly artificial, across which Leicester had constructed a stately bridge, that Elizabeth might enter the castle by a path hitherto untrodden, instead of the usual entrance to the northward, over which he had erected a gate-house or barbican, which still exists, and is equal in extent and superior in architecture, to the baronial castle of many a northern chief.
Pàgina 104 - He was the son of Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, under Elizabeth...
Pàgina 66 - Until at weapon-point they close. They close in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway and with lance's thrust; And such a yell was there Of sudden and portentous birth, As if men fought upon the earth And fiends in upper air; O life and death were in the shout, Recoil and rally, charge and rout, And triumph and despair.
Pàgina 77 - My lord, your father would have gone further :" to which the duke answered, " Your majesty's father was the better man, and he would not have gone so far.
Pàgina 6 - Call you that desperate, which, by a line Of institution, from our ancestors Hath been derived down to us, and received In a succession for the noblest way Of breeding up our youth, in letters, arms, Fair mien, discourses, civil exercise, And all the blazon of a gentleman ? Where can he learn to vault, to ride, to fence, To move his body gracefuller, to speak His language purer, or to tune his mind Or manners more to the harmony of nature, Than in these nurseries of nobility?
Pàgina 335 - England, then a widow, he refused her, whereat she grew so discontented that she consulted with her maids how she might take away his life ; and in pursuance of that design, enticed him into a garden, where there was a secret cave, and in it a fierce lion...
Pàgina 133 - To view the festive rites, the knightly play, That deck'd heroic Albion's elder day; To mark the mouldering halls of Barons bold, And the rough castle, cast in giant mould; With Gothic manners Gothic arts explore, And muse on the magnificence of yore.