The Castles and Abbeys of England, Volum 1Virtue, Spalding, and Company, 1842 - 352 pàgines |
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Pàgina 4
... feet of unlimited despotism . ' If , when the people were poor and disunited , the nobility had not been brave and free , the tyranny which on every favourable occasion was breaking through all barriers would have rioted without control ...
... feet of unlimited despotism . ' If , when the people were poor and disunited , the nobility had not been brave and free , the tyranny which on every favourable occasion was breaking through all barriers would have rioted without control ...
Pàgina 13
... feet , ren- dered the castle inaccessible . On the remaining sides , a deep fosse , protected on the JWARCHER JACY ... feet ; on the internal , sixty - nine ; and with that of the walls and battlements , by which it was crowned ...
... feet , ren- dered the castle inaccessible . On the remaining sides , a deep fosse , protected on the JWARCHER JACY ... feet ; on the internal , sixty - nine ; and with that of the walls and battlements , by which it was crowned ...
Pàgina 15
... feet in length by nearly twenty - one feet in width , and upwards of fourteen feet high . The arches are circular , and formed of square blocks of chalk strengthened by four transverse ribs of massive stone . The walls , varying in ...
... feet in length by nearly twenty - one feet in width , and upwards of fourteen feet high . The arches are circular , and formed of square blocks of chalk strengthened by four transverse ribs of massive stone . The walls , varying in ...
Pàgina 18
... feet below the bottom of the fosse . The upper rooms are lighted externally by narrow label - headed windows ; and at the west corner a chamber , which extends along the whole of the covered - way , communicates with one of these apart ...
... feet below the bottom of the fosse . The upper rooms are lighted externally by narrow label - headed windows ; and at the west corner a chamber , which extends along the whole of the covered - way , communicates with one of these apart ...
Pàgina 19
... feet distant , forming a long narrow slit within the tower , which , by means of the enclosed portion of the ancient arch , opens a direct communi- cation with the interior of the Keep . Over this covered space is a sort of stone funnel ...
... feet distant , forming a long narrow slit within the tower , which , by means of the enclosed portion of the ancient arch , opens a direct communi- cation with the interior of the Keep . Over this covered space is a sort of stone funnel ...
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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.