Windsor: A History and Description of the Castle and the TownWard, 1862 - 244 էջ |
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... 165 CHAP . IV . - TOWN IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY AND SINCE . • 178 PART II . DESCRIPTIVE . CHAP . I. - THE ROYAL PRECINCTS • CHAP . II . - THE NEIGHBOURHOOD 193 228 PART I. HISTORICAL . CASTLE . CHAPTER I. THE FOUNDATION.
... 165 CHAP . IV . - TOWN IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY AND SINCE . • 178 PART II . DESCRIPTIVE . CHAP . I. - THE ROYAL PRECINCTS • CHAP . II . - THE NEIGHBOURHOOD 193 228 PART I. HISTORICAL . CASTLE . CHAPTER I. THE FOUNDATION.
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... century at Windsor , and might probably belong to a chapel which then formed part of the castle , and which is supposed to have covered a portion of the site of the military knights ' houses . This chapel was dedicated to Edward the ...
... century at Windsor , and might probably belong to a chapel which then formed part of the castle , and which is supposed to have covered a portion of the site of the military knights ' houses . This chapel was dedicated to Edward the ...
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... ; far different from that display of beauty and grandeur which , after the lapse of more than five long centuries , * " Annals of Windsor , " vol . i . p . 107 . graced the baptism of a regal descendant , who had 16 CASTLE .
... ; far different from that display of beauty and grandeur which , after the lapse of more than five long centuries , * " Annals of Windsor , " vol . i . p . 107 . graced the baptism of a regal descendant , who had 16 CASTLE .
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... for threshing wheat . These , it must be confessed , were high wages ; as threepence a day then was equal to five shillings now ; and the fact places the labourer of the fourteenth century , with regard to the 20 CASTLE .
... for threshing wheat . These , it must be confessed , were high wages ; as threepence a day then was equal to five shillings now ; and the fact places the labourer of the fourteenth century , with regard to the 20 CASTLE .
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... century , with regard to the means of livelihood , in enviable comparison with his de- scendants in the nineteenth . * The rebuilding of the castle occupied eighteen years , during which period large sums were annually expended on the ...
... century , with regard to the means of livelihood , in enviable comparison with his de- scendants in the nineteenth . * The rebuilding of the castle occupied eighteen years , during which period large sums were annually expended on the ...
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Windsor; a History and Description of the Castle and Town Rev. John Stoughton (of Kensington.) Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1862 |
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Էջ 229 - Windsor's heights the expanse below Of grove, of lawn, of mead survey, Whose turf, whose shade, whose flowers among, Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver-winding way...
Էջ 234 - It is a little chaos of mountains and precipices; mountains, it is true, that do not ascend much above the clouds, nor are the declivities quite so amazing as Dover cliff; but just such hills as people who love their necks as well as I do may venture to climb, and crags that give the eye as much pleasure as if they were more dangerous. Both vale and hill are covered with most venerable beeches, and other very reverend vegetables, that, like most other ancient people, are always dreaming out their...
Էջ 235 - In the same pious confidence, beside her friend and sister, here sleep the remains of Dorothy Gray, widow, the careful, tender mother of many children, one of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her.
Էջ 99 - Such we believe to have been the character of the Puritans. We perceive the absurdity of their manners. We dislike the sullen gloom of their domestic habits. We acknowledge that the tone of their minds was often injured by straining after things too high for mortal reach...
Էջ 41 - So thick the branches and the leves grene, Beshaded all the alleys that there were ; And midst of every arbour might be seen The sharpe, grene, sweet juniper, Growing so fair, with branches here and there, That as it seemed to a lyf without, The boughs did spread the arbour all about...
Էջ 229 - A stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to soothe. And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Էջ 233 - I have at the distance of half a mile, through a green lane, a forest (the vulgar call it a common), all my own, at least, as good as so, for I spy no human thing in it but myself.
Էջ 82 - ... 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 140 - 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."* The fate of the troops posted in Blenheim still remained undecided.
Էջ 140 - 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...