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... built by archbishop Morton , about the year 1490 . The PRESENCE CHAMBER has three windows adorned with painted glass , representing St. Jerome and St. Gre- gory , with old English verses beneath them . The middle window has a painted ...
... built by archbishop Morton , about the year 1490 . The PRESENCE CHAMBER has three windows adorned with painted glass , representing St. Jerome and St. Gre- gory , with old English verses beneath them . The middle window has a painted ...
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... built before the year 1424. It is roofed like the hall . Adjoining to this are a drawing room and dressing room , built by archbishop Cornwallis . The gardens and park , which contain near thirteen acres , are laid out with taste . They ...
... built before the year 1424. It is roofed like the hall . Adjoining to this are a drawing room and dressing room , built by archbishop Cornwallis . The gardens and park , which contain near thirteen acres , are laid out with taste . They ...
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... built and inhabited , and though it had received the sanction and approbation of the king , nobility , and prelacy of England . This took place in 1199 . e The site was granted by the archbishop to Gilbert de Glanville , bishop of ...
... built and inhabited , and though it had received the sanction and approbation of the king , nobility , and prelacy of England . This took place in 1199 . e The site was granted by the archbishop to Gilbert de Glanville , bishop of ...
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... built in 1791 , and opened on masquerade and gala nights only . It is near four hun- dred feet long , and adorned on each side by landscapes in compartments , between paintings of double columns , en- circled in a spiral form by ...
... built in 1791 , and opened on masquerade and gala nights only . It is near four hun- dred feet long , and adorned on each side by landscapes in compartments , between paintings of double columns , en- circled in a spiral form by ...
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... built in 1786 ; the diameter is forty- four feet , and the dome is supported by eight lofty pillars . On the right this walk is terminated by a fine statue of Apollo ; and , at the extremity on the left , is a painting of a stone quarry ...
... built in 1786 ; the diameter is forty- four feet , and the dome is supported by eight lofty pillars . On the right this walk is terminated by a fine statue of Apollo ; and , at the extremity on the left , is a painting of a stone quarry ...
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Page 430 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repaired with straw, With tape-tied curtains never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies...
Page 371 - Now to the sister hills that skirt her plain, To lofty Harrow now, and now to where Majestic Windsor lifts his princely brow. In lovely contrast to this glorious view, Calmly magnificent, then will we turn To where the silver Thames first rural grows. There let the feasted eye unwearied stray; Luxurious, there, rove through the pendent woods That nodding hang o'er Harrington's retreat...
Page 430 - Shrewsbury and love; Or just as gay at council, in a ring Of mimic statesmen, and their merry king. No wit to flatter, left of all his store! No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends!
Page 3 - With which she calculates, computes and scans All distance, motion, magnitude, and now Measures an atom, and now girds a world? In London ; where has commerce such a mart, So rich, so throng'd, so drain'd, and so supplied, As London— opulent, enlarged, and still Increasing London?
Page 411 - There is an old tale goes, that Herne the hunter, Sometime a keeper here in Windsor forest, Doth all the winter time, at still midnight, Walk round about an oak, with great ragg'd horns; And there he blasts the tree, and takes the cattle ; And makes milch-kine yield blood, and shakes a chain In a most hideous and dreadful manner...
Page 11 - madam I may not call you, mistress I am ashamed to call you, and so I know not what to call you ; but, howsoever, I thank you.
Page 203 - RICHARD WATTS, Esq. by his Will, dated 22 Aug. 1579, founded this Charity for Six poor Travellers, who not being ROGUES, or PROCTORS, May receive gratis for one Night, Lodging, Entertainment, and Fourpence each.
Page 345 - Cooper's Hill is the work that confers upon him the rank and dignity of an original author. He seems to have been, at least among us, the author of a species of composition that may be denominated local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape, to be poetically described, with the addition of such embellishments as may be supplied by historical retrospection or incidental meditation.
Page 373 - Father of light and life, Thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ; teach me Thyself ! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit ; and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure, Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss...
Page 460 - Lord, I am a great deal older than your Grace, " and have, I believe, heard more arguments for " Atheism than ever your Grace did ; but I have " lived long enough to see there is nothing in them ; " and so, I hope, your Grace will.