The Castles and Abbeys of England, Volum 1Virtue, Spalding, and Company, 1842 - 352 pàgines |
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Pàgina x
... Noble WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR , from an Ancient Statue . Fr. Monum . A BLACK - FRIAR , or BENEDICTINE MONK of Tewkesbury THE CHAPTER HOUSE OF TEWKESBURY - now the Grammar School EAST END OF THE CHANCEL . Behind the Altar Screen . In ...
... Noble WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR , from an Ancient Statue . Fr. Monum . A BLACK - FRIAR , or BENEDICTINE MONK of Tewkesbury THE CHAPTER HOUSE OF TEWKESBURY - now the Grammar School EAST END OF THE CHANCEL . Behind the Altar Screen . In ...
Pàgina 3
... noble owner ; and by exciting the first efforts of wit and fancy , secured an intro- duction to every species of polite learning - to all the softer influences by which the stern manners of the age were gradually softened and refined ...
... noble owner ; and by exciting the first efforts of wit and fancy , secured an intro- duction to every species of polite learning - to all the softer influences by which the stern manners of the age were gradually softened and refined ...
Pàgina 4
... noble coun- tenance . Deprived of its sustaining power , the very names of right and privilege must have fallen prostrate at the feet of unlimited despotism . ' If , when the people were poor and disunited , the nobility had not been ...
... noble coun- tenance . Deprived of its sustaining power , the very names of right and privilege must have fallen prostrate at the feet of unlimited despotism . ' If , when the people were poor and disunited , the nobility had not been ...
Pàgina 5
... noble host collected around him his friends and retainers , that the walls were hung with banners , that steel - clad warders paced the battlements , that the sound of the horn summoned the guests from the " joust " or the chase , —that ...
... noble host collected around him his friends and retainers , that the walls were hung with banners , that steel - clad warders paced the battlements , that the sound of the horn summoned the guests from the " joust " or the chase , —that ...
Pàgina 23
... noble proprietor was an exile . The succession of calamities , which had given the family history of his immediate predecessors such mournful interest , was still felt in its consequences , and contributed , with other causes , to ...
... noble proprietor was an exile . The succession of calamities , which had given the family history of his immediate predecessors such mournful interest , was still felt in its consequences , and contributed , with other causes , to ...
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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.