Visits to Remarkable Places: Old Halls, Battle Fields, and Scenes Illustrative of Striking Passages in English History and PoetryLongman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1840 - 526 sivua |
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Sivu 17
... mile in length , terminated by woody hills of great rural beauty . This court will eventually be laid out in a flower garden ; Lord de L'Isle having fitted up the suite of rooms in this , and the north front , for the family use ...
... mile in length , terminated by woody hills of great rural beauty . This court will eventually be laid out in a flower garden ; Lord de L'Isle having fitted up the suite of rooms in this , and the north front , for the family use ...
Sivu 37
... week will set you down at an excellent inn on the very spot . From Tunbridge Wells , a few miles distant , this is now a favourite excursion , and the Dover Railway will , ere long , run through the VISIT TO PENSHURST . 37.
... week will set you down at an excellent inn on the very spot . From Tunbridge Wells , a few miles distant , this is now a favourite excursion , and the Dover Railway will , ere long , run through the VISIT TO PENSHURST . 37.
Sivu 62
... miles ; partly amid pleasant cultivated fields , with their corn ripe for the harvest ; partly along the shore of the Murray Frith ; and partly through woods of Scotch fir . As we approached Culloden , we asked many of the peasantry ...
... miles ; partly amid pleasant cultivated fields , with their corn ripe for the harvest ; partly along the shore of the Murray Frith ; and partly through woods of Scotch fir . As we approached Culloden , we asked many of the peasantry ...
Sivu 67
... mile from Inverness , where the last bodies were found . The country people yet tell the spot where the sturdy blacksmith dropped . His smithy stood from year to year on the fatal field , deserted and gradually falling to decay . It ...
... mile from Inverness , where the last bodies were found . The country people yet tell the spot where the sturdy blacksmith dropped . His smithy stood from year to year on the fatal field , deserted and gradually falling to decay . It ...
Sivu 86
... miles to fix them on his park - gate ; an irritability so lasting that it revived and issued to the light again in the " Merry Wives of Windsor . " That Shakspeare valued the enjoyments of domestic life , beyond both the brilliant life ...
... miles to fix them on his park - gate ; an irritability so lasting that it revived and issued to the light again in the " Merry Wives of Windsor . " That Shakspeare valued the enjoyments of domestic life , beyond both the brilliant life ...
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admiration amongst ancient Ann Hathaway Barden Tower battle beautiful Ben Jonson castle cathedral celebrated chamber chapel character Charles church Clopton cloth lettered coloured cottages Countess Countess of Leicester crown Culloden curious daughter delightful Duchess Duchess of Portsmouth Duke Earl Edition Elizabeth England English Everard Digby father feeling gallery garden hall Hampton Court hand head Henry de Blois Henry VIII Highlanders hills honour John king king's lady living London look Lord massy monument nature noble paintings palace passed Penshurst poet poetry portraits present Prince Queen reign round royal ruins Rylston Saxon scene seen Shakspeare Shakspeare's shew side Sidney singular Sir Philip Sir Philip Sidney Sir Thomas spirit splendid stands stone stood Stratford style thing Thomas Lucy thou Titian tomb tower trees vols walk walls whole wild William Winchester Wolsey wonder woods young
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Sivu 258 - Nay then, farewell ! I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness : And, from that full meridian of my glory, I haste now to my setting. I shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more.
Sivu 261 - Let's dry our eyes : and thus far hear me, Cromwell ; And — when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of — say, I taught thee, Say, Wolsey — that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of honor...
Sivu 89 - O! for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdu'd To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Sivu 193 - 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.
Sivu 256 - I have ventured. Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders. This many summers in a sea of glory ; But far beyond my depth ; my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me.
Sivu 193 - 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. No thought was there of dastard flight ; Linked in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well ; Till utter darkness closed her wing O'er their thin host and wounded King.