Windsor: A History and Description of the Castle and the TownWard, 1862 - 244 էջ |
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... . 158 · 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.
... . 158 · 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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... royal palace . Wherever it stood , it seems to have been the resort of the Saxon princes ; and here , it is said , Edward the Confessor held his court . A story is related of him by William of Malmesbury , to the effect that one Wulwin ...
... royal palace . Wherever it stood , it seems to have been the resort of the Saxon princes ; and here , it is said , Edward the Confessor held his court . A story is related of him by William of Malmesbury , to the effect that one Wulwin ...
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... royal custom at such festivals , was there at the same season in 1095 with all his retinue , except the Earl of Northumberland , whose absence being construed into disaffection , he was besieged at Bamborough , and being afterwards ...
... royal custom at such festivals , was there at the same season in 1095 with all his retinue , except the Earl of Northumberland , whose absence being construed into disaffection , he was besieged at Bamborough , and being afterwards ...
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... royal buildings , of which there are several curious entries in the records of that period . In the nineteenth year of Henry II.'s reign , the expenditure on the castle was estimated at £ 73 7s . 6d . ; and in following years different ...
... royal buildings , of which there are several curious entries in the records of that period . In the nineteenth year of Henry II.'s reign , the expenditure on the castle was estimated at £ 73 7s . 6d . ; and in following years different ...
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... royal habitation , nothing further can be ascertained than the dimensions . Of the chapel there are other notices , which prove it to have had the appendages of a galilee or porch , a cloister , and a bell- tower . In three years the ...
... royal habitation , nothing further can be ascertained than the dimensions . Of the chapel there are other notices , which prove it to have had the appendages of a galilee or porch , a cloister , and a bell- tower . In three years the ...
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Windsor; a History and Description of the Castle and Town Rev. John Stoughton (of Kensington.) Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1862 |
Windsor: A History and Description of the Castle and the Town John Stoughton 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...