Notice of Windsor in Olden TimesD. Bogue, 1844 - 236 էջ |
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... present . The Author gratefully acknowledges his obligations to preceding writers on the antiquities of Windsor , especially to Mr. Ashton , for the valuable architectural information which he has collected on the subject , in his ...
... present . The Author gratefully acknowledges his obligations to preceding writers on the antiquities of Windsor , especially to Mr. Ashton , for the valuable architectural information which he has collected on the subject , in his ...
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... present , and the future , and blending man with man wheresoever he is found . " * It is the design of this little volume to trace the associations which cluster so thickly around Windsor of the olden time , and to assist the reader ...
... present , and the future , and blending man with man wheresoever he is found . " * It is the design of this little volume to trace the associations which cluster so thickly around Windsor of the olden time , and to assist the reader ...
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... present their congratulations on his return from Brittany . Five years afterwards , a treaty of peace was concluded on the same spot between Henry and Roderic O'Connor , King of Connaught , by which the coast of Ireland , from Dublin to ...
... present their congratulations on his return from Brittany . Five years afterwards , a treaty of peace was concluded on the same spot between Henry and Roderic O'Connor , King of Connaught , by which the coast of Ireland , from Dublin to ...
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... present tomb - house . No person of taste and information who visits Windsor Castle will fail , if he be aware of their existence , to de- vote a little time to these interesting remains ; and , antiquarian curiosity and lore apart , a ...
... present tomb - house . No person of taste and information who visits Windsor Castle will fail , if he be aware of their existence , to de- vote a little time to these interesting remains ; and , antiquarian curiosity and lore apart , a ...
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... by reminding us that the stormy period when those castles were in their glory has passed away for ever , to give place to the present era of security , order , and peace . Windsor in the Fourteenth Century . CHAPTER II . HE 18.
... by reminding us that the stormy period when those castles were in their glory has passed away for ever , to give place to the present era of security , order , and peace . Windsor in the Fourteenth Century . CHAPTER II . HE 18.
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Էջ 74 - Or the unseen Genius of the wood. But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows, richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.
Էջ 178 - People who saw nothing of the godly but their uncouth visages, and heard nothing from them but their groans and their whining hymns, might laugh at them. But those had little reason to laugh who encountered them in the hall of debate or in the field of battle.
Էջ 154 - But scarce again his horn he wound, When lo ! forth starting at the sound From underneath an aged oak, That slanted from the islet rock, A damsel guider of its way, A little skiff shot to the bay...
Էջ 204 - Hall, and there find the boys' verses, 'De Peste'; it being their custom to make verses at Shrove-tide. I read several, and very good they were; better, I think, than ever I made when I was a boy, and in rolls as long and longer than the whole Hall, by much.
Էջ 139 - ... the bird of paradise, three spans long, three fingers broad, having a blue bill of the length of half an inch, the upper part of its head yellow, the nether part of a * * * colour...
Էջ 178 - On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests they looked down with contempt: for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.
Էջ 113 - So went to bed : where eagerly his sickness Pursued him still ; and, three nights after this, About the hour of eight (which he himself Foretold should be his last), full of repentance, Continual meditations, tears, and sorrows, He gave his honours to the world again, His blessed...
Էջ 222 - I have not time to say more, but to beg you will give my duty to the queen, and let her know her army has had a glorious victory. M. Tallard and two other generals are in my coach, and I am following the rest. The bearer, my aide-de-camp, Colonel Parke, will give her an account of what has passed. I shall do it in a day or two, by another more at large. — MARLBOROUGH...
Էջ 178 - The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them tranquil on every other. One overpowering sentiment had subjected to itself pity and hatred, ambition and fear. Death had lost its terrors and pleasure its charms. They had their smiles and their tears, their raptures and their sorrows, but not for the things of this world.
Էջ 153 - As we were returning to our inn, we happened to meet some country people celebrating their Harvest Home ; their last load of corn they crown with flowers, having besides an image richly dressed, by which perhaps they would signify Ceres : this they keep moving about, while men and women, men and maidservants, riding through the streets in the cart, shout as loud as they can till they arrive at the barn.