Ambulator: Or, a Pocket Companion in a Tour Round London, Within the Circuit of Twenty-five Miles: ...T. Gillet, 1800 - 252 pages |
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... ceiling of this noble room was painted by Ru bens , who had 3000l . for his work . The subject is the Apotheofs of James I. It forms nine compartments . One of the middle re- prefents our pacific monarch on his earthly throne , turning ...
... ceiling of this noble room was painted by Ru bens , who had 3000l . for his work . The subject is the Apotheofs of James I. It forms nine compartments . One of the middle re- prefents our pacific monarch on his earthly throne , turning ...
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... ceilings , but all entirely of the King James's Gothic . " " " ALBURY HOUSE , in the parish of Chefhunt , the feat of John Ruffell , Efq . part of whofe garden is inclosed by a fragment of the wall which furrounded Theobalds Park ...
... ceilings , but all entirely of the King James's Gothic . " " " ALBURY HOUSE , in the parish of Chefhunt , the feat of John Ruffell , Efq . part of whofe garden is inclosed by a fragment of the wall which furrounded Theobalds Park ...
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... ceiling of this room was painted for Lord Mel- combe , by whom alfo the very coltly chimney piece , representing , in white marble , the marriage of the Thames and Ifis , was put up . The antichamber contains feveral good pictures , and ...
... ceiling of this room was painted for Lord Mel- combe , by whom alfo the very coltly chimney piece , representing , in white marble , the marriage of the Thames and Ifis , was put up . The antichamber contains feveral good pictures , and ...
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... ceiling of the gallery is of mofaic - work , ornamented with rofes . Two new ftaircases of tone have been built , and a chapel has been made on the fite of the old itair - cafe , the walls of which were painted with fcripture fubjects ...
... ceiling of the gallery is of mofaic - work , ornamented with rofes . Two new ftaircases of tone have been built , and a chapel has been made on the fite of the old itair - cafe , the walls of which were painted with fcripture fubjects ...
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... ceiling of the corner draw- ing - room , are beyond measure maffive ; and the ground apartment is rather a diminutive catacomb than a library in a northern lati- tude . Yet thefe blemishes , and Lord Hervey's wit , who faid the houfe ...
... ceiling of the corner draw- ing - room , are beyond measure maffive ; and the ground apartment is rather a diminutive catacomb than a library in a northern lati- tude . Yet thefe blemishes , and Lord Hervey's wit , who faid the houfe ...
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Page 83 - Where'er he turns, he meets a stranger's eye, His suppliants scorn him, and his followers fly ; Now drops at once the pride of awful state, The golden canopy, the glitt'ring plate, The regal palace, the luxurious board, The liv'ried army, and the menial lord.
Page 66 - 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 repair'd 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 — alas!
Page 66 - Of mimic'd 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 38 - Into his freshened soul; her genial hours He full enjoys ; and not a beauty blows, And not an opening blossom breathes in vain.
Page 100 - We find our tenets just the same at last. Both fairly owning Riches, in effect, No grace of Heaven or token of th' elect; Given to the fool, the mad, the vain, the evil, To Ward, to Waters, Chartres, and the devil.
Page 204 - under the greenwood tree," where fair Rosalind had rested, and where melancholy Jaques had mused and mourned? And as I walked along, how instinct with his spirit did each spot appear! There was the oak — " Whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along the wood.
Page 210 - ... to carry on approaches that way. On the side next the river, is a very strong curtain, with a noble gate, called the Watergate, in the middle, and the ditch is palisadoed.
Page 164 - We are apt to think, that Sir William Temple and king William were, in a manner, the introducers of gardening into England; but, by the description of lord Burleigh's gardens at Theobalds, and of those at Nonsuch, we find that the magnificent, though false taste was known here as early as the reigns of Henry VIII. and his daughter. There is scarce an unnatural and sumptuous impropriety at Versailles, which we do not find in Hentzner's...
Page 25 - Monks, and Jargon-teaching Schools, Led forth the true Philosophy, there long Held in the Magic Chain of Words and Forms, And Definitions void: he led Her forth, Daughter of Heaven! that, slow-ascending still, Investigating sure the Chain of Things, With radiant Finger points to Heaven again.
Page 104 - Ceres, holding in the one hand a wheatsheaf, and pointing with the other to loaves of bread. At the feet of Ceres is Flora, surrounded by her attendants, and holding a chaplet of flowers. Near her are the two river gods, Thame and Isis, with their urns, and in the centre, a large table decorated with flowers.