Windsor Castle, and Its EnvironsLongman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1840 - 260 páginas |
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admirable afterwards ancient apartments appears appointed arms attended barons battle beauty bishop ceiling ceremony Chamber CHAPTER Charles Charles II chivalry choir colour countess court crown daughter dayes death defend Duchess Duke Earl Edward IV Elizabeth enemies England English father feast feet French Garter gateway George George III George IV George's Chapel gold Gothic governor grand hand held Henry VI Henry VIII honour hundred James Jeffry Wyatville John King Arthur King Edward king of France king of Scot king's kingdom lady length London Lord lower ward magnificence Majestie mantle master ment monarch nobility noble Norman officers of arms ornaments painted palace person poor knights portrait pounds present prince princess prison quadrangle queen received reign residence Richard Round Tower royal Salisbury says Scots seated side Sir Jeffry solemn sovereign stall statutes stone sword terrace throne tomb Verrio walls William Windsor Castle Windsor Herald
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Página 16 - THE bark that held a prince went down, The sweeping waves roll'd on ; And what was England's glorious crown To him that wept a son? He lived — for life may long be borne Ere sorrow break its chain ; Why comes not death to those who mourn? — He never smiled again...
Página 40 - And he knew it, and said, It is my son's coat; an evil beast hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces.
Página 202 - He resolved to celebrate his own obsequies before his death. He ordered his tomb to be erected in the chapel of the monastery. His domestics marched thither in funeral procession, with black tapers in their hands. He himself followed in his shroud. He was laid in his coffin with much solemnity.
Página 168 - Somerset-house to St. James's, her Luciferian confessor riding along by her in his coach ! They have made her to go barefoot, to spin, to eat her meat out of dishes, to wait at the table of servants, with many other ridiculous and absurd penances.
Página 173 - ... and all the court, went about masked, and came into houses unknown, and danced there with a great deal of wild frolic. In all this people were so disguised, that, without being in the secret, none could distinguish them. They were carried about in hackney chairs. Once the queen's chairmen, not knowing who she was, went from her : so she was alone, and was much disturbed, and came to Whitehall in a hackney coach : some say it was in a cart.
Página 141 - 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 Maid Servants, riding through the Streets in the Cart, shout as loud as they can, till they arrive at the Barn.
Página 148 - ... the Right Honourable Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, came from Italy, and brought with him gloves...
Página 17 - Amidst the knightly ring : A murmur of the restless deep Was blent with every strain, A voice of winds that would not sleep — He never smiled again...
Página 140 - ... 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...
Página 110 - The conquest of Egypt by the Arabs diffused that vain science over the globe. Congenial to the avarice of the human heart, it was studied in China as in Europe, with equal eagerness and with equal success.